Firebase Poems - Poems about Firebase

...Memories First Platoon boards the Huey, sickly smell of sweat and death elbow to elbow we sit cramped in the narrow compartment hot, sticky air like a sauna grips us in its wet claws rotors s......

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..."I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy." Sylvia Plath Stroll ......

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...CHANGING OF YEARS The darkness overwhelms sitting on an old com tower well into the Plain of Reeds watching for enemy movement Using bunkers of a firebase long deserted and long rotted two b......

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...Private Dribble died today 'twas in his 19th year a nickname's all he left me with, his name I didn't hear. He couldn't speak, but as he died he asked me with his eyes, to reason out his passin......

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