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DISPOSAL
by John W Townsend → (All Poetry by John W Townsend)
Wednesday, December 27, 2017    Rated "PG13" by the Author.
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Who would be in Bomb Disposal? yet some are.

Tired heart

wants to break

too much to do

to let that happen.

So body wills

all system go

so it is not gonna happen.

At least not now

they all wait for you

your the only guy

who knows what to do.

No one thinks

your ever half scared

that you will be blown to pieces

if these things

go off,

someone has to do it

so your instructor said

then you heard him mutter

'Your a long time dead when your dead.'

Bomb disposal

what a name

like a poshed up refuse collector

cleaning up rubbish much the same.

Yet When I'm out there

I want peace and quite

and all I hear

is my ruddy pounding heart.

Still it is a good sign

means I am still alive

might get a postumus medal

if I snip the wrong line.


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 Reviews of "DISPOSAL"
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on December 29, 2017
About the loneliest profession there is. Fortunately, through online demand, I recently saw two movies on the subject. The first movie, simply titled, Mine, was about using German prisoners of war, very young, to remove landmines from the beaches of Denmark just after World War II. It was a very tragic tale of unwilling young men forced to do a very dangerous and deadly task.

The second movie, The Hurt Locker, was a recently acclaimed movie about bomb disposal in Iraq. This movie was more about bravery and heroism under very difficult circumstances. Both movies are very worthwhile to watch.

As desperate people seek ways of showing their pain by using bombs, more and more, others will be caught up in trying to disarm and dispose of bombs.

Ron

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on December 28, 2017
They are one of the unsung heroes we take for granted.

Reviewed by Budd Nelson
Reviewed on December 28, 2017
my brother was underwater demolitions in the navy in Korea, in the fifties


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