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2018-03-02 Home Front: Culture Wars

I'm honored to have the opportunity to pass this well-written poem along.

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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-03-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Its sentimental. Nevertheless, it IS true, for all of that. He did get old. And he did get boring. And he may have been your old Dad, and you bore with him even when he was boring , which he was. But you understood his stories after you came home from VietNam yourself. And you got old yourself and he is long gone now. So yu hold your tongue when you see a young man who has an earring in ear and a rainbow T-shirt.

And you see what NBC says about vets and the newsreels about the Iraq War. And the vets who have done two and sometimes three deployments and their families live in trailers and their wives struggle to raise the two little kids alone while their father is in Afghanistan. And these men are so few, and the families suffer so much. And sometimes they come home and have lost everything because the young wife just couldn't bear up. And they have to adapt to coming a civilian again and stacking cartons of Coke in a Supermarket when they used to Command a Platoon. And they remember too much hurt and can't talk about it to anyone. And their own children don't know who that are even though they love they love those children very much. And love that wife who is no longer is a wife and they and she are alone now Separated...nothing is more profound than ordinary hurt.

Serving the Flag. All those years and ...sentimentality isn't the right word. And you got old and never got any of it back, you still hurt. And your kids need the insight of heroes to see it in you. And to understand.
He got a govt. headstone and was buried in family graveyard in a small community churchyard and I go down once a year and mow the lawn and sit in the truck alone, myself. I am all those men. going back to the generation of 1835, every generation. One Flag. At a cost.

Posted by Andy Bumble5704 2018-03-02 06:16|| 2018-03-02 06:16|| Front Page Top

#2 50th anniversary of the 82nd deployment to Vietnam. All the way airborne..

Posted by Bman 2018-03-02 17:36|| 2018-03-02 17:36|| Front Page Top

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