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MillRatUSMC
12-08-02, 12:34 PM
The poems below came from VISION Of WAR, DREAMS Of PEACE
Writings of Women in the Vietnam War
Edited by Lynda Van Devanter and Joan A. Furey.

"Vietnam isn't behind us at all; it's in us.
Sometimes it is only a shard of memory; sometimes it is a ferocious trauma.
It defined one generation and influenced those that preceeded and followed.
To understand it, we need to think about and feel it;
the memorial is the one place we have in common.
Where those feelings can be expressed.
Until we go there,
we are, in a sense, incomplete,
and so is the memorial."
~ Laura Palmer ~ Journalist
Vietnam 1987

HOW DO WE SAY GOODBYE?

How do we say goodbye,
When you've never said hello?
Stand in front of that black marble wall.
See in your reflection their names,
Then touch them.
You will say hello and goodbye together.
~ Penni Evans ~
1984

VIETNAM

V isions of justness,
I mpressions of horror,
E mptiness of soul,
T actics of dishonesty,
N aked of spirit,
A ction of politics,
M asters of denial.
~ Janet Krouse Wyatt ~
1986

These are but a few of some great poems on a war, that's still in many of us.
We tend to forget her service and much of what they endured in silence.
To do their job in a professional manner, they weren't able to express their inner most feelings and fears.
But what can be said about Vietnam, could be said for many of the wars that we fought in.
I chose these but there's some that you will have to read.
It's too painful and described of the horrors that we faced.
But in honoring her, we also add honor to our service.
We're thankful because they were there, while some others were demostrating out in the streets.
A belated THANK YOU from me to all the women that saw the horrors that we call the Vietnam War.

lakers
12-08-02, 01:28 PM
GREAT POST