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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... green sea jungle , cutting the thick red air of dusk . The sound of the engines washes into the gullies of heaped wire strung with bodies spilling toward the village like a trail of crushed sea forms . Great fish - mountain did you show ...
... green sea jungle , cutting the thick red air of dusk . The sound of the engines washes into the gullies of heaped wire strung with bodies spilling toward the village like a trail of crushed sea forms . Great fish - mountain did you show ...
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... passing . Even more I fear that some day I will be the only one remembering . I wish you could share this joint with me . The trucks will be back soon . -Basil T. Paquet Green Hell , Green Death Green hell of the jungle 69 64.
... passing . Even more I fear that some day I will be the only one remembering . I wish you could share this joint with me . The trucks will be back soon . -Basil T. Paquet Green Hell , Green Death Green hell of the jungle 69 64.
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... jungle Mountains and the new Green leaves beside you , With a warm , clear life . There was a mangled hole , Where the right side of Your jaw had been . And through the smashed Bone and teeth , Your life had drained out . Now , the ants ...
... jungle Mountains and the new Green leaves beside you , With a warm , clear life . There was a mangled hole , Where the right side of Your jaw had been . And through the smashed Bone and teeth , Your life had drained out . Now , the ants ...
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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