Long Korean war Poems

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when...

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I have a friend who is a veteran.                           ...

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I was born in ’24 near the California shore,
Where life was good, whether we were rich or poor.
We moved around a lot, but I never asked what for,
And my friends came and went like a...

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He Picks up his son looks into his eyes, 
and says I love you. Gives His wife a hug 
goodbye as he tries to hold the tears back.
 He waves goodbye as he slowly turns
away...

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Reminiscent of the America I Knew

Seventy years have come and gone as though
 it was a watch in the night, 
and if we would choose to turn back the clock 
we can’t even if we...

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I was born in ’34 near the California shore,
Where life was good, whether we were rich or poor.
We moved around a lot, but I never asked what for,
And my friends came and went like a...

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December Seventh and the U.S.A.
By Franklin Price
12/07/2021

December seventh, forty-one
A day that lives in infamy
Had it not happened, as it did,
Where in the world, would we now be?

Was only four score years ago
We could no longer...

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----paranoid, pornographic, psychotic, pontific, politically aware, rapping, rhyming, right here, right now in River city, rock and roll up the Yazoo, sad, sadistic, sarcastic, sassy, satanic, schizoid, shitting, silly, sexy, smarmy, smelly, smooth, snarky, snarling,...

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Well, you asked for it so here goes!
I'm five-feet, eight inches tall from scalp to toes.
Born October 1930 in Indiana - so there, I've revealed my age.
I'm blessed with great health even at this elder...

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There’s Scottie in his chair
Tongue firmly in his cheek
Trying to wind up Old Noel, 
The highlight of his week.
Noel, over eighty, Veteran
Of the Korean War
Gives as good as he gets
And dishes out much more.
Gordon’s his...

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Son, I'm so proud that you elected to serve in the United States Marines.
Military service is a family tradition - it just happens to be in our genes!
Your forefathers have worn the uniform since the...

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The Perfect Circle Plant was where most kids went to work as a general rule,
To begin a life of donkeywork upon graduation from the local school.
I dreamed of things far beyond the horizon like visitin'...

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And, as I began to play the tune, the power of the words from my song, “There is Healing in His Hands”, miracles began to happen all over the sanctuary and so I just continued...

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The year was 1946...


Grandfather, on my dad's side, chemistry professor at the Ann Arbor Campus of the University of Michigan had just finished his tenure, completing his service to our country in the reserve as...

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My soul filled with pride and my eyes misted as the parade passed in review.
'Twas the annual hometown Veterans Day Parade that I was privileged to view.
Veterans, young and old marched behind the flag that...

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I was asked, are you going to raise your flag on the fourth of July?

Why shouldn't I raise my flag on the fourth of July, was my reply?

Because they said, did you read Frederick Douglass's...

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When I was born, he was preparing for the Korean War.
We met and became close friends some 20 years ago.

As I recall, they started appearing some two years ago.
They come and go at will, and...

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(14 year old boy with mother in a police station during the Korean War)

The captain 
His feet on his desk
Smoking a cigarette

Where’s your scumback communist brother?
I don’t know, Sir.

Where’s your father?
Supposed to be a Christian...

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I must have fallen asleep
 somewhere in the fifties, sixties, and seventies as well.
My father fought the War to end all wars
 it didn't and he rarely spoke of it again.
Joe went off to the...

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I love Korean food
K food

Ever since I first 
Encountered it in 1979
When I joined the Peace Corps

Korean food is somewhat like
Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Thai
With some American influences as well
and lately Mexican food and Turkish...

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Many are the 'characters' I met while serving my nation.
Seems there's always one who stands out in every organization!
In Bermuda (where I fought the Korean War) was such a cuss.
He was my bunkmate and he...

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I believe
Because I don’t know

I know the sun rises in the east and sets in the west
I know spring follows summer
Summer follows autumn 
Then winter

But do I know God exists?
No, I don’t
That's why I believe

Why...

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A Warrior's Blood In His Old Age

Warriors bled, most now are dead and gone
tales read of blood, guts and dried bone.
Those that found residing in sad old age
were few comforts for lost youth's bitter rage!

Tired...

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From Seventy-two to Eighty-three,
I took a rest from reality
To watch these doctors laugh and cry.
(And some of them would even die.)

It was a story of Korean War
Which had ended twenty years before,
But Vietnam War was...

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A Little Hill in Arlington

There’s a little hill in Arlington
Where no bodies are interred
Yet crosses dot the hillside
And Taps are sometimes heard

Unlike the Unknown Soldier
With “unknowns” in the ground
This little hill in Arlington
Is for soldiers...

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