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Heavy Medal Addiction

Uncle soldier Sammie is too flashback far Saigon The bad memory withdrawals are too ganja gun smoke strong So he pumps up the blame volume, saying who’s dirty napalm wrong He’s got a shaky second and third finger condition, a LSD (long standing delusion) induced affliction So spaced out on psychedelic visions of democracy victory It triggers poppy field decisions, harvesting killing yields of foreigner derision And the mushroom drum sounds, from the Band of Brothers’ drone bong, bangs out “Dogs of War” Howling in the collateral fallout air, forevermore Heavy medal addiction is a death blow score Uncle soldier Sammie is a military basket case in denial retreat Accused of tour-of-duty dereliction Suffering dishonorably from a PSTD defeat affliction The mine-trippy, Private Dyan head space has EVAC landed in a heroin casket place Platoon power puff disgraced has a pompous, overdose face A light brigade of reinforcements witness the guilt heavy medal addiction As calvary-came-too-late, doctored ambitions belay any battlefield truthful admission Uncle soldier Sammie has horrible dreams of wounded pride Rambos’ giving way to hasty withdrawals Shrapnel images betrayed by rancor rice bowl jowls Armistice impossible, cache cartel condoned Crack-ed peace pipe got IED blown More Flanders field flowers blowing crimson petals to destinations unknown Triage tears dampens the runway moans, and the mental escape hatch has shut safely on it’s crystal meth own Uncle soldier Sammie self-medicates the missing limb pain that has grown over the daze and years for so long Always seeing ghastly apparitions of Cambodia — fearful flashbacks, so far sigh gone And the hallucinatory ghosts of Vietnam don’t give a bog-of-war damn 08-20-21

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Date: 8/21/2021 10:47:00 AM
from title to end...great read! no lessons ever seem to be learned from past wars ..real epic write :)
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Date: 8/20/2021 12:44:00 PM
Lots of ghosts of Vietnam this week, a riveting write on PTSD~
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