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Memorial Day should be every day!

at seventeen
was i,
so old
so young.
and
it was there
i first met war.

i saw their broken eyes
those that returned
from vietnam,
a (so called)
american war.

they were the children
i knew,
broken as toys
discarded into
the lost echoes
of a history,
now unwritten
in our schools.

sweet children
lost to their sighs
torn from their tries
or
just names
written on a wall,
a wall of tears.

at eighteen
i was
willing to die,
but could cry no more.
i was willing
to die
but for love
not for war.

remember!

- jude

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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on May 24, 2013
Unfortunately, the Vietnam War that finally touched our souls on what war really does, will go down in history as but a minor skirmish in the scheme of things.

On Memorial Day, proud uniform men strut their stuff and go through the rituals describing their pride and patriotism, while every day millions of veterans from wars as old as World War I suffer nightmares and torment, often lost and forgotten while we overlook them day to day when we see them on the street and never see them in their houses drinking their lives away.

I'm with you. The only war I'll go to is the one for love.

Ron

Reviewed by Budd Nelson
Reviewed on May 23, 2013
remember for sure
budd


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