We the Unwilling

"We the unwilling 
Led by the unqualified 
To kill the unfortunate
Die for the ungrateful"

A motto of the troops
Who served in Vietnam
And wrote it on the back
Of a chrome Zippo lighter.

© Paul Warren Poetry
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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