Take one moment

[The Wizard]

If you are able,
Save for them a place
Inside you
And save one backward glance
When you are leaving
For the places they can
No longer go.

Be not ashamed to say
You love them
Though you may
Or may not have always.

Take what they have left
And what they have taught you
With their dying
And keep it with your own.

And in that time
When men decide and feel safe
To call the war insane,
Take one moment to embrace
Those gentle heroes
You left behind.
_______________________________
-Major Michael Davis O’Donnell-
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam
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[jody]

1. Thanks. n/t

[Major Hogwash]

2. Been there, done that.

The Wall is one of the hardest memorials to visit and not realize what a waste war really is.

The Vietnam War didn't solve a fuckin' thing.