Left at the Wall – v4

Pieces, shards only

broken fragments

of your story, heartache;

their stories, unfinished

of their lives, cut short

gone to Vietnam

without coming home

so many young men

not here with us

so many women alone

comrades with guilt,

nightmares of that place

so far away, distant

from everything we know

so alien, foreign,

the jungle, Vietnam

things we bring

to you, to them

left at the Wall,

not where they lay

praying for wholeness

one day, for them

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edited November 11, 2014

Left at the Wall – v4

Veteran’s Day

edited May 27, 2014

Left at the Wall – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/left-at-wall-v3.html

Edited May 26, 2014

Left at the Wall – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/left-at-wall-v2.html

Memorial Day

August 5, 2006 18:05

Left at the Wall

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/08/left-at-wall.html

&

poem:

November 11, 2010

“In the Rain, in that Place”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/11/in-rain-in-that-place.html

Veteran’s Day 2010

and remembering being

at the Vietnam Memorial

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Veterans_Memorial

vvmf.org

during the 10^th anniversary

Veteran’s Day 1992

&

All of my Veteran’s Day poems

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/search/label/Veteran%E2%80%99s%20Day

&

All of my Memorial Day poems

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/search/label/Memorial%20Day

 

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