Tonkin Poems - Poems about Tonkin

... AIR FORCE There were those times On long missions over Laos and the Gulf of Tonkin When a weariness settled over us Over pilot and navigator and crew Settled on us like a resigned ......Read the rest...

...MEMORIAL DAY June 1, 2015 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To all of you that have ever worn "THE UNIFORM" The Uniform of safety and security, The Uniform of pride ......Read the rest...

...WORLD OF WAR - VIETNAM Again and again I see it, I hear it - The shudder shudder of the blades Beating the hot sweaty air, Swooping low overhead. The shrill shriek as the engines Are ......Read the rest...

...After two years in the Tonkin Gulf during Vietnam, I was stationed in the Philippines. I was invited for lunch aboard an Australian destroyer by the ship’s captain. They were getting underway for......Read the rest...

...Sin plagues the land! Where men cry out from false pulpits That we can get :back to the Garden" And mongrelize ourselves into Some kind of World Man, Sin plagues the land. Where honest, decen......Read the rest...