Winning Hearts & Minds: War Poems by Vietnam VeteransLarry Rottmann, Jan Barry, Basil T. Paquet A collection of poems by Vietnam War veterans. |
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... Stan Platke Mines Mines ! Mines ! Booby traps and mines Everywhere you step Like serpents they surround you . Toe poppers T.M.B.'s and claymores Silently they await My frightened trembling step . -Charles M. Purcell 17 Mines The Quiet Lie.
... Stan Platke Mines Mines ! Mines ! Booby traps and mines Everywhere you step Like serpents they surround you . Toe poppers T.M.B.'s and claymores Silently they await My frightened trembling step . -Charles M. Purcell 17 Mines The Quiet Lie.
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... And try to stuff them back in But they keep sliding out For a face blown in For an eye blown out For an arm blown off For a body blown open ... A gut catcher . -Stan Platke Morning - A Death Turn - Character 1 I've blown 21 Gut Catcher.
... And try to stuff them back in But they keep sliding out For a face blown in For an eye blown out For an arm blown off For a body blown open ... A gut catcher . -Stan Platke Morning - A Death Turn - Character 1 I've blown 21 Gut Catcher.
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... to claim Men bled Many dead Yea as I walk through the valley of death I shall fear no evil For the valleys are gone And only death awaits And I am the evil -Stan Platke Group Shot So they passed , Days of hollow cadence 101.
... to claim Men bled Many dead Yea as I walk through the valley of death I shall fear no evil For the valleys are gone And only death awaits And I am the evil -Stan Platke Group Shot So they passed , Days of hollow cadence 101.
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Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans Larry Rottmann,Jan Barry,Basil T. Paquet No preview available - 1972 |
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25th Infantry Division Afternoon Pickup Game American Basil Bien Hoa blood Blue Jungle Bronze Shades brother bullets chest CHIGAN clouds Cobra dark dead Dick Doc Lap Don Receveur dreams dust dying earth elephant grass eyes face fire fire fire flesh Free Fire Zone Genghis Khan gifts girls gook grass Green Death Green hell green jungle guns hands Hanoi Hannah Herbert Krohn Hoa Binh Honai hootches Hue City Indochina Jan Barry John Stulett kill land Land Of Oz Larry Rottmann limbs lips LZ Gator metal Michael Casey MICHIGAN mouth move Muddy body bags napalm Nha Trang night Paquet peace poem rain rifle Saigon screams Serigo silent sing smell soldiers Song soul of ships Stan Platke Thap Ba Tho's UNIV UNIVERSITY VERSITY Viet village W. D. Ehrhart walk watch wind Winning Hearts Wire wounds Xuan Loc Young In Rice