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[aid] => mick
[title] => Reflections at the Wall (1989)
[time] => 2002-07-31 06:47:39
[hometext] => My thoughts upon standing before the Vietnam War Memorial
for the first time( I was a very idealistic high school senior at the time), and finding a cousin's name among all the other names. It was simply overwhelming. Jim [bodytext] => The war ended fourteen years ago Though earlier for most of you Yet for some, it still exists, for how long we may never know. But forget you is one thing we shall never do Winter, Spring, Fall, and Summer, season after season you fought and died, both in the light of day and dark of night Even now, some say you died without reason, though you gave your lives for what you believed was right. My father knew some of you, even saw you die. he was one of the lucky ones, who did return, I think in the horror, he forgot how to cry, But I know that for you others still yearn You were to a foreign nation sent, while others to Canada did flee Knowing you could die, still to Vietnam you went Giving your lives so that others might be free You may be gone, but forgotten? Never Each line upon that black, stone wall bears a name So that each of you brave souls may live forever True American heroes, now rest in fame As America remembers her brave men 58,132 names on the Wall, every line every piece Who fought and died, in a war you could not win I only hope that each of you may now rest in peace. [comments] => 2 [counter] => 306 [topic] => 28 [informant] => Jim_Cundiff [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Patriotic )
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