Yes, the soldier may be lucky to come home with no physical scars. But, just killing another human being, close up, is enough to leave a lifetime of scars on a veteran's psyche.
what about the so-called 'fall of man'. . . another question is: the soldier of what and for what. . . free will, George, free will. the true problem is of the parental nature. Chreers, alex
I have seen first hand the suffering that our soldiers go through when they return home. So many need help. People don't realize what these men and women have gone through and all that they have seen. Sucidi
This speaks to me of my Uncle Max. He survived (if you can call it surviving) the Bataan Death March, plus years of imprisonment in a stinking Japan prison. He came home to an America he did not recognize.
Each person is but a grain of sand resting beside the sea. This thought sets the tone for Jill Eisnaugle’s latest poetry collection, Beside Still Waters.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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