:-D Thanks a lot! is to clean up all the troubles, that the politicians start. Edited by three Vietnam veterans working out of a basement kitchen in Brooklyn and published originally through private funding . ' ***. However, I must make it clear that, while I served during the war/conflict, I was a chaplain's assistant and never went to Vietnam. Pero detrs del mito de su creacin hay una historia sin contar sobre un robo, una obsesin y un doble juego corporativo. He came to the United States in 1975. Fink ended up spending a year in Vietnam. I go to a slam once a month here in my neck of the woods and a Vietnam vet shares his experiences which go on and on and on. But now, in his fourth collection, he revealed that the war was still with him. Sign up for the American Experience newsletter! But the explanations given by those whod sent the soldiers to fight in Vietnam became ever more surreal and absurd until they were revealed for what they were: nothing but empty words, bereft of reason or any semblance of higher moralauthority. Herbert Krohn, a former Army doctor, exhibits particular sensitivity and sympathy for the Vietnamese. Current Location. not even in their granddams days that malformations in lab mice may not occur in children They were fighting for what they believed in. Blond, boyish, his sense of humor intact, grubby like the rest of us, sick of war, but good and charming and wholesome. Out of that hole and ran So, I guess BobK's answer hits home! The antiwar rhetoric really hit home with Fink after he heard former nun and antiwar activist Elizabeth McAlister speak at the seminary. Merwin, the Vietnam War remains a cultural milestone in citizen involvement. Ex-infantryman Steve Hassett contributed half-a-dozen poems, including his eerily ironic Christmas, in which The Hessian Mason, 46, was a spiritual POW for almost two decades after his body came home. Like many who served in the controversial war that dragged from 1955-75, Hagan's time in Vietnam left him bitter at the loud anti-war protests of the late 1960s and early '70s. only the gulf between herself With handkerchiefs Dedicated their Courage and Time to a Cause. You chose to write poetry. came squinting, wobbling, jabberingback. More durable a poetindeed, one of the very bestis John Balaban. They came in hissing, on a rain soaked day such as this. I know what it is like to be so afraid. on a rain-soaked day such as this. Another collection of his poems,The Great Whirl of Exile, was published by Curbstone Press in 1998. Poems from and about the American involvement in Vietnam. Howells was the Colonel's aide. but the sergeant is a stateside G.I. As your mucosity dries on my lips then at least let's give him homage, at the ending of his days. rhapsody, And finger paint the words of who I am that have been cut along the way biggest You killed the enemy or the enemy killed you. War Poems by Vietnam Veterans, a $1.95 olive-drab paperback put . the long line of theirvowels. . with benediction Why?I wanted to paint the picture of the action and a panorama of the combat there, he replied.Its called The Battle for Charlie,' the name of a fire base blocking the North Vietnamese invasion route into the central highlands at the start of their 1972 Easter offensive. You are probably surrounded. It's so easy to forget them, for it is so long ago. Deaths moment is near,I can feel its flame. In News Update, he chronicles the livesand deathsof friends hed known in the war zone: Sean Flynn/dropping his camera and grabbing a gun; Tim Page with a steel plate in his head; Gitelson, his brains leaking on my hands and knees, pulled from a canal. Oct. 7, 2012. More on the War in Vietnam:The Tet Offensive (Sunday Morning)A promise fulfilled: Filming a story of heroism in battle (Sunday Morning)The lost platoon: Aftermath (Sunday Morning)A war photographers rediscovered images from Vietnam (Sunday Morning). For when countries are in conflict, then we find the Soldier's part. acceptance ofherself. In the spring of 1972, a slim volume of poems appeared called Winning Hearts and Minds (First Casualty Press), its title taken from one of the many official slogans used at various times to describe the American pacification and relocation program in South Vietnam. All rights reserved. I do this under the biggest tree, It seems like, going in, your position was not survivable., I think probably so, but I was never fearful in the whole battle.. He held a job and raised a family, quietly going on his way; and the world won't note his passing; 'tho a Soldier died today. Finks squad leader, a bespectacled 19-year-old sergeant from Nebraska named Claude Van Andel, noticed how tired Fink was and offered to take his place as the patrols point man a squads most dangerous position. the Marine Corps I can tell true stories/of the jungle, he writes in When I Am 19 I Was aMedic: I sleep strapped to a .45, Maurice DeCaul watched as his battalion's artillery units fired into the city. Republicans believe it means respect for the flag and all the attendant drivel. Albuquerque High School, 1962. "The Diameter of the Bomb" by Yehuda Amichai. his home, his kin, and Country, and would fight until the end? I will stay with you until you stay with me. Khalistan Calls no Trifle in Punjab, But Hindu Majoritarianism Bigger Human beings will endure enormous trauma if they believe in what they are doing. His son had died nine thousand miles away, To see dead bodies on the ground. Story produced by Mary Walsh. Past the olive drab if ( 'querySelector' in document && 'addEventListener' in window ) { By the time United States troops withdrew from Vietnam in 1973, the Vietnam War had become one of the longest, most controversial conflicts in American history. in Vietnam I prayed fervently. McDonald, like Balaban, is anomalous, but for different reasons: he was a career Air Force officer and pilot, his age closer to those who planned the war than to most of those who fought it. I had just moved into Florida from Tennessee. There is no escape. For he lived an ordinary, very quiet sort of life. An estimated 2 million Vietnamese civilians were killed, and 58,000 US soldiers died in action. From World War II, one can think of only a handful of poems, like James Dickeys The Firebombing, Randall Jarrells The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, and sections of Thomas McGraths Letter to an Imaginary Friend. One would like to think that the soul of the nation might somehow be cleansed thereby, but that is hardly likely. In The Winter Before the War, he talks of raking leaves in late autumn, the approach of winter, the first snow and ice-fishing,concluding: The fireplace book "FOOT clockwise: me, Nina, Shamik with Paahi, Krishna, Sonal (Mohit's clicking), India: Calls for Khalistan justified based on Hindu Rashtra demand highlight threat of religious politics | SN Sahu, FOOTPRINTS IN THE BAJRA a "first in Indian writing in English". to take us to the airport. " The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke. It is my sincere wish that someone will find these heart-felt writings useful. tells you you're on a new trail, Threat S.N. what do they know back where a damned hard time. Gerald McCarthys solid collection, War Story (The Crossing Press) appeared in 1977. On a rain-soaked day such as this. "Death in the Afternoon, Chapter 16", But I have walked in the face of the moon, I have befouled the waters and tainted the air of a magnificent land, I have flown through the sky faster than the sun, But I had idled in the streets made ugly with traffic, But I have built upon it hundred million homes, But I have built courthouses to keep them free, I have outraged my brothers in alleys and ghettos, I have scribbled out filth and pornography, But I have elevated the philosophy of man. Cross, Jr. I hate you/with your yellow wrinkled skin, /and slanted eyes, your toothless grin. While many of these writers might be loath to call themselves antiwar poets, few if any have anything good to say about their experience inVietnam. President Joe Biden shakes hands with retired U.S. Army Major John J. Duffy, after awarding him the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Vietnam War, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., July 5, 2022. Never hear the horrible One night they overran the compound. Apr 6, 2009. Thank you for taking the time to enter the contest and sharing your poem with us. But retired Green Beret John Duffy turned his trial-by-fire into an epic poem of the Vietnam War. the rest, all President Kennedy is assassinated; Vice-President Johnson succeeds Kennedy. And in 1982, his Blue Mountain (also from Unicorn) ably demonstrated the growth of his own poetry over the years. Moreover, for the most part, soldiers will fight and kill willingly only if they find that reason believable. All of that was about to change forever. Martin said, Thats a good question: Is this glory?, Is this glory? Even then, When two mouths, thirsty each for each, find slaking, And agony's forgot, and hushed the crying. Most had been in grade school or junior high school when John F. Kennedy had declared that we will bear any burden, pay any price in defense of liberty. bleached into my fear. Literate without being literary, Paquet was, at the time, far and away the most He aims. Neither Paquet nor Casey ever published any additional poetry, to my knowledge, after 1972. More than transcending Vietnam, in Blue Mountain Balaban absorbs Vietnam and incorporates it into a powerful vision of what the world ought tobe. his cooplike, concrete sentry perched mid-bridge Navy Crosses on my Face. Duffy started writing the poem a week later, and has been adding to it ever since. an airfield mortared. To contextualize these pieces, we listed the poems in the time periods in which they were written, along with a selection of historical markers. these were only the mosquitos. Monopoly is Americas favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and our free market society. Balaban is particularly adept at contrasting the impact of the war on Vietnam with the indifference of those at home. Above, the They had grown up in the shadow of their fathers generation, the men who had fought the good war from 1941 to 1945. They have known shame, who love unloved. has retaken thetrenches. It don't mean nothing. I was so outraged that so many were nodding in approval, Fink said. would be a troop of baboons. Men fought and died for nameless hills, only to walk away from them when the battle was over. and it takes cruelty to make any friends all his buddies listened, for they knew whereof he spoke. Just ask if you need assistance or have any questions, we are here to help you. ] Former Airman Horace Coleman writes of his Saigon daughter in A Black SoldierRemembers: She does not offer me one of the In a letter, he told them Van Andel died as soldiers often do, taking on danger to protect comrades they sometimes barely know. Nixon is elected president and begins bombing Communist bases on the Cambodian border. There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. Sign in|Recent Site Activity|Report Abuse|Print Page|Powered By Google Sites. Next months harvest is hordes of hungry beetles. After the Navy, Poem for Our Dog Afraid of Thunder on a Rainy Day. Idly the thick Rach Binh Thuy slides by. "This is the price you pay for having a great father. Target him! You have stopped for a break, stand up All of which was compounded by the fact that each soldier went to Vietnam alone and unheralded, and those who survived came home alone to an alien landindifferent or even hostile to themwhere the war continued to rage no farther away than the nearest television set or newspaper, or the nearest street demonstration. The poems are copyrighted, but can be used for any nonprofit reason with credits. I hear a child. And the heat and the worthlessness Records, souvenirs, pretending Until Im covered and theres only one smell, . It was a brutal battle; no quarter asked, none given. The US concludes peace agreements. 4) We were all clerks of various sorts. [All] our fear/and hate/Poured from our rifles/Into/the man in black/As he lost his face/In the smoke/Of an exploding hand frag, wrote infantryman and Bronze Star winner Frank A. Msgr. Charles Fink, 199th Infantry Brigade (Light), Privacy Policy |Terms of service |Subscription terms |Your ad choices |Cookie Settings |California Privacy Rights |About Us |Contact Newsday |Reprints & permissions |Advertise with Newsday |Help. Indeed, of the 36 poems, only ten deal with the war. But retired Green Beret John Duffy turned his trial-by-fire into an epic poem of the Vietnam War. It was getting a little dicey! Duffy replied. LI priest's poem about Vietnam War endures. This is what the war ended up being about, he writes in Corporal Charles Chungtu,U.S.M.C.: we would find a V. C. village, Who knows what else awaits only the touch of a pen or the favor of apublisher? You never know if you'll get the chance again. Only a little more than a yard away In Mines, hewrites: Here is how you walk at night: slowly lift hell was fighting whom? knowing I would have to kill whatever was out there, Years later, Fink learned that Van Andels family and friends had always wondered whether war had stripped the Nebraskan of his humanity. Along with Virgil Suarez and Victor Hernandez Cruz, Quintana co-editedPaper Dance: 55 Latino Poets. Weigl, in fact, seems unwillingby design or by default, one cannot tellto confront the war directly, relying time and again on dreams, illusions and surreality. View of American troops from the 173rd Airborne Brigade as they exit a helicopter 40 miles south of Saigon, Vietnam, August 1965. I lay down in it By the time United States troops withdrew from Vietnam in 1973, the Vietnam War had become one of the longest, most controversial conflicts in American history. You study the things which start fromscratch. In his poem, Duffy imagines the orders the North Vietnamese commander gave his troops: "The big American with the radio on his back, I want him killed, he is controlling the aircraft. I am the last person you will touch. You killed the enemy or the enemy killed you. It also introduced a handful of good newcomers. Duffy was the lone American advisor to a battalion of South Vietnamese paratroopers sent to hold Fire Base Charlie. was ourvillage. Vietnam Tears I stood and I watched as a mother cried, when she had heard that her son had died. I know what it is like to be so afraid I guess I did well:Not having gone to Hell. I like a little unaccustomed mercy. From breaking news to special features and documentaries, the NewsdayTV team is covering the issues that matter to you. I have thumped and blown into your kind too often. Trained to fight and not to run for the Vietnam War, Where time has forgotten, and joy comes no more. And here I am, ten years later, hemuses: written up in the local small town press Only now I cant fly. The type of day that dogs don't understand. "My appreciation for my father's greatness cannot be measured.". What else can we do? he was the Katie Greeter Team Leader Some, however, stand out more sharply than others. our hands around. To begin with, those who went to Vietnamwell into the late 1960s and contrary to popular perceptionwere largely young volunteers, eager and idealistic. in his last letter home/said in part/they are all rebels here/who will not stand to fight/but each time fade before us/as water into sand[. that our Bob's and Jim's and Johnny's, went to battle, but we know. a procession of whales, and far off some nights I dig The audience applauded after she characterized those who fought in Vietnam as moral transgressors. Under such conditions as these, there has been more than enough reason and plenty of time for once-idealistic youngsters to consider long and hard the war they fought, the government and the society that sent them to fight it, and the values they had once believed in. But the appearance in 1984 of D.F. Jean Libby. Two earlier chapbooks had already offered tantalizing hints of Weigls ability, and when A Romance appeared in 1979, it immediately confirmed thatpromise. In Rocket Attack, he first describes the death of a young Vietnamese girl, then criesout: Daughter, oh God, my daughter we called forjets. are sometimes disproportionate, to the service he gives. 4 min read. that although our garden seeps with sewage, and our elders think its up for auctionswear For more poems about war, consider the following: "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae. Be brave my comrades. embarrasses me. Air strikes, code-named Operation Rolling Thunder, begin in North Vietnam. when he walked up In 2018, he returned home to Hue, in central Vietnam, to live out his last days at the Tu Hieu Temple, where he had become a novice as a teenager. It was also said the VC kept chickens leashed to strings. On a rain-soaked day such as this Well, the phrase itself IS hypothetical, but refering to something factual and almost too good to be true! The jungle/loaded, nobody/comes away in one piece. And in Coming Home, henotices: Someone has stacked his books, for popping a loud-mouth punk in the choppers. The Line Between Innocence and Immorality. our own or that of 13th-century Mongol armies It is inscribed inaccurately on a memorial stone at the Northport VA Medical Center. Your poem gives a strong voice for those affected by war. That represent all - Jim Valvano. So, basically you had accepted the fact that you were going to die?It was getting a little dicey! Duffy replied.It seems like, going in, your position was not survivable.I think probably so, but I was never fearful in the whole battle.In a recording, Duffy (call sign: Dusty Cyanide) talks to the aircraft coming to his rescue.My situation is I got 37 personnel. document.documentElement.className += 'js'; His poem captures the bond soldiers feel.. Its not Shakespeare, he said, but it says simply and directly what most military people, especially those who served in combat, feel about fellow soldiers.. After our war, the dismembered bits Not all the poems in After Our War deal with Vietnam. His 2019 novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, followed a boy who, like Vuong, is an immigrant from Vietnam. I never mention see the flash of the muzzles. *** Poetry By David Connolly Thoughts on a Monday Morning Originally written after a memorial service for 59 troopers from the Second Squadron of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment who were killed in action or who died as a result of wounds received when ambushed by an entrenched, numerically superior force while on an operation in the Michelin Rubber Plantations, near the town of Dau Tieng, in . Bowels and a heart that sings some jerk who breaks his promise, and cons his fellow man? and ducks that others feed. And for what? You did a good job. Zambia. Where then do these poems comefrom? They were young enough to have no worldly experience whatsoever, they had absorbed the values of their society wholesale, and they had no earthly reason before their arrival in Vietnam to doubt either their government or the society that willingly acquiesced in theirgoing. But there is finally here, in these poems, a remarkable promise of hope, a refusal to forget the past and go on, willfully oblivious to history or the lessons that ought to have been learned. Wets her face. Target him! While Balabans poems offer little comfort, they have much to teach. It is as if time has finally allowed Weigl to accept the emotions buried in the subconscious and the implications of what he has done and been a part of. This will always be light carried by raw emotion alone, and most of the soldier-poets were not really poets at all but rather soldiers so hurt and bitter that they could not maintain their silence any longer. Or the ordinary fellow, who in times of war and strife. Soon it will be here,It seems strange no more.Martin said, Strange no more. Seven winters have slipped away, Worst of all, as time passed, it became obvious even to the most nave 18-year-old that the war was goingnowhere. President Nixon orders the Christmas bombings, the heaviest US air strikes since WW II. Fire at it But behind the myth of the games creation is an untold tale of theft, obsession and corporate double-dealing. Of the dozen or so poems Paquet contributes, three or four must rank as among the very best Vietnam war poems yet written. one leg, clear the sides with your arms, clear the back, silly hats she sells Americans and falling in slowmotion[.]. He had enlisted in the Army in 1960 and gone to war six years later, a geriatric fighter compared to the teenagers . her eyes . Get the latest on new films and digital content, learn about events in your area, and get your weekly fix of American history. Former medic Brown is particularly interesting, having remained in the Army from 1968 to 1977, and one can only wonder why he stayed in and why he got out. An estimated 2 million Vietnamese civilians were killed, and 58,000 US soldiers died in action. This months harvest is tall green rice. Burning the Fence, a new collection by Walt McDonald, appeared in 1980 from Texas Tech Press. Of the 471 men committed,I came out after two weeks of intense battlewith 36 surviving,most of them had been wounded. the sad smile she alreadyhas. a fool counting the cards, a monkey praying, Plus, I was 62, and the Vietnamese are typically about 56, Duffy said. Torture, assault and battery, malicious destruction, murder and mayhemthe very things young Americans had always been taught only the enemy didwere widespread and tacitly or openly sanctioned. Draft calls end. Climbing We were fighting for what we believed in. A collection of original poetry from a Vietnam War Veteran, David Rose, who is diagnosed with PTSD by the Veterans Administration. Best of all, poets like Weigl and Balaban are still young and still producing. Consequently, I have INDIAN LITERATURE (IL, 259), the flagship journal of Sahitya Akademi pity youMartha!. . It's not often (if ever) a recipient of the Medal of Honor is also a published poet. A plane that was to take two children eating rice, like tiny glaciers. Soon it will be here,It seems strange no more. While the ordinary soldier, who offered up his all. Castillo, tight-lipped men tell me the war in Vietnam is over, In For Mrs. Cam, Whose Name Means Printed Silk, he reflects on the dislocation of the refugee BoatPeople: The wide Pacific flares in sunset. It was my take on soldiers, as opposed to the one she made.. Howell's vocabulary grew in Vietnam. Moments later, a mine exploded. ***. I try to imagine she runs down the road and wings But others have persisted, and some have gone on to become among the best poets of theirgeneration. It is, then, it seems to me, hardly any wonder that so many former soldiers have turned to the solitude of pen and paper. Why?. He was just a common Soldier and his ranks are growing thin. ***. The first section is a sequence of 22 untitled poems set mostly in the war zone, but as the book progresses, the poems become richer and more haunting as the full impact of the war slowly settles in upon the former Marine. var googletag = googletag || {}; A second influential anthology of Vietnam War poetry, edited from five thousand submissions by W.D. Ehrhart, the rebel son of a minister who had . to surgery in Saigon, I wondered, what had they drunk a rifle, and Kill or die is our fate.It sounds like going in you knew this was a battle to the death, said Martin.We were given orders to fight to the death, Duffy replied.In his poem, Duffy imagines the orders the North Vietnamese commander gave his troops: if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[580,400],'sandhillsexpress_com-banner-1','ezslot_5',114,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-sandhillsexpress_com-banner-1-0');The big American with the radio on his back,I want him killed, he is controlling the aircraft.He is attacking our anti-aircraft and artillery guns.He moves often. Yet that oblique approach is enormously effective, creating a netherworld of light and shadows akin to patrolling through triple-canopied jungle. when blood was spilled on my 214. bloody papers I carry through life. 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