Vietnam War Poems

You remember the mud blood and mosquitos
And the Agent Orange brought back as a memento
In your jungle greens at Vung Tau
Nui Dat  memories won’t...

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Chet grabbed my story and claimed it as his own.
Tacking on a slightly different ending.
I kept my mouth shut about this.
War has obliterated his own...

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I was a young man at the age of nineteen
When I was sent to a country on the other side of the world that I...

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One year ago Dictator Putin’s
Massed military might 
Invaded the Ukraine
Not really expecting any fight.
One year later, with increasing 
Frustration and despair,
Putin’s battered conscript army 
Is...

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Oh Nixon what did you do,
Woe will drown and plague you,
Sending more soldiers into Vietnam	
Where you know there is no calm,
Only war, killing and death,
The...

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A story I read about war and good luck charms…..
The Good luck charm

Standing on the dock in front of the troop ship 
His mother hugged...

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The World That is Located in the Sky
David J Walker

Witnesses all
	To the fall of Saigon
In 75
And after all 
	Was lost or won
What we Though 
we...

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Birth of a nation birth of a child
Celebration tears from soldier proud
He can be her she can be the
All tears of love in the infantry

My...

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It was in late October in the year nineteen seventy three
That the war in South Vietnam was finally over for me
I boarded the seven o...

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Today is May the 30th and it's Memorial Day.
Americans are paying tribute to those who fought and died for the USA.
116,516 American soldiers died during...

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We split the cost to dig a well in a small community in Uganda, Africa.
We did this in or about 2006, more than 35 years...

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Questions of truth, alas become moot--
          O'er angry voices, truth seldom heard
Like branches strayed from their...

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I will always recall the look on Ed’s face
As we lunched underneath an oak beside the river
We stopped at an ideal spot on our canoe...

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A walk around the block in my parents’ neighborhood at dawn
wearing mom’s sweater and pop's sneakers with a clown hole cut out for  
...

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Veteran’s Day 2021
Thoughts of Miracle Man
November 11, 2021

I always feel dread around Veterans day,
because I’m forced once again to remember.
Those who stood in the gap...

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