Left at the Wall – v5

Pieces, shards only,

broken fragments

of your stories, heartache;

Their stories, unfinished,

of their lives cut short,

of their lives empty

without each of you.

So many young men gone,

so many women alone.

Comrades with guilt,

nightmares of that place

so far away, distant,

from everything we know.

So alien, eternal vigilance,

in that jungle

in Vietnam.

Things we bring

to you, to them

left at the Wall

not where they lay.

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edited April 17, 2015

Left at the Wall – v5

(editing version 1 and reviewing all 4 versions)

edited November 11, 2014

Left at the Wall – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/11/left-at-wall-v4.html

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

&

edited March 23, 2015

The Wall – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-wall-v4.html

(editing originalagain)

edited November 11, 2014

The Wall – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-wall-v3.html

edited May 28, 2014

The Wall – v2

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

posted February 14, 2004

The Wall

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/wall.html

June 22, 2001

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edited November 11, 2014

In the Rain, in that Place – v5

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/11/in-rain-in-that-place-v5.html

(editing original)

Veteran’s Day

edited November 11, 2014

In the Rain, in that Place – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/11/in-rain-in-that-place-v4.html

Veteran’s Day

edited May 27, 2014

“In the Rain, in that Place – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/in-rain-in-that-place-v2_27.html

edited May 26, 2014

“In the Rain, in that Place – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/in-rain-in-that-place-v2.html

Memorial Day

November 11, 2010

“In the Rain, in that Place”

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

and remembering being

at the Vietnam Memorial

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

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund

www.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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