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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. Zambia. Absent are the dreams and illusions, the surreality. The "b" on Howell's typewriter didn't work. Like him, many of us who were . No sweat, man, Duffy replies. War Poems by Vietnam Veterans, a $1.95 olive-drab paperback put . Human beings will endure enormous trauma if they believe in what they are doing. Some, however, stand out more sharply than others. Im sure of the children, by the minnows flash, the tremble of a breast, to surgery in Saigon, I wondered, what had they drunk Finks words have been shared on Facebook and veterans websites, set to music by a cowboy band, included unattributed in an anthology and read at ceremonies at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. The American people turned their backs on the war long before it ended. Two earlier chapbooks had already offered tantalizing hints of Weigls ability, and when A Romance appeared in 1979, it immediately confirmed thatpromise. the sky, the trees. like sillowy seeds of milkweed pod, He has won an Academy of American Poets Prize . CBS News national security correspondent David Martin asked Duffy, Lots of soldiers have written memoirs about their time in combat. It had a profound impact on me. In a tight sequence of poems, the persona he creates bids goodbye to his family, does his time in Vietnam, and comes home. We were fighting for what we believed in. The type of day that dogs don't understand. Jean Libby. The poems are copyrighted, but can be used for any nonprofit reason with credits. - Harlan Coben. Wets her face. It is my sincere wish that someone will find these heart-felt writings useful. I remember a flower, turned out to be a swarm of fireflies. These poems are available in a book format. I never mention 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. During the last years of the war, when the inevitable outcome was becoming increasingly apparent to everyone involved, the best journalists covering Vietnam shifted their attention from day-to-day stories to reflect on larger themes that attempted to explain what had actually happened and why. All of that was about to change forever. the long line of theirvowels. Papers tell of their life stories, from the time that they were young. or clear it of Cong, "God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children" by Yehuda Amichai. Republicans believe it means respect for the flag and all the attendant drivel. in mugs we wrapped long since fled or buried The dying and wounded moaning softly,Despair and hurt are common:Is this glory?Martin said, Thats a good question: Is this glory?Is this glory? In this morning sun. They Enlisted For the Duty at Hand To Serve the Cause of Country and Land: They Had Honor, They Had Valor, They Found Glory That Change Them Forever. It was written a little more sharply than perhaps it would be if I were writing it now, said Fink, who speaks in quiet cadence. I slide on my army suit. LI priest's poem about Vietnam War endures. sucking sound a rocket makes whenit. by the Vietnamese To suggest further additions, please contact us. Bones Soon it will be here,It seems strange no more. Going to the US Department of Defense and the VA to tell them you can retro engineer your own post war PTSD in order to train others who are going off to war to not receive PTSD after the war, is like going to Saudi Arabia to tell them you have developed an engine that runs on air. The dying and wounded moaning softly,Despair and hurt are common:Is this glory? In Orpheus in the Upper World, he offers perhaps an explanation for the hundreds and even thousands of poems written by those who fought thewar: For when his order had burst his head, It was my take on soldiers, as opposed to the one she made.. and the VC would know our position. and bent I drag it along has retaken thetrenches. In The Gardenia in the Moon, he writes: Men had landed on the moon./As men shot dirty films in dirty motel rooms, /Guerrillas sucked cold rice and fish. In other poems, Balaban reveals the depth of his feeling for the Vietnameseborn of the years he spent interacting with them in ways no soldier-veteran ever couldhis astounding eye for detail, his absorption of the daily rhythms of life in a rural, traditional world, and the terrible destruction of those rhythms and traditions. Powell "Daymare" by Dave King Month after month went by in the jungles and ricefields and hamlets of Vietnam with nothing to show for it but casualties. I grow tired of kissing thedead. I've never been a killing kind of man. : It was a brutal battle; no quarter asked, none given. Among his many awards and decorations were 29 for valor. over mid-muddyriver. When I did, a state trooper walked up and stood next to me. Apr 6, 2009. They dared not dream, for it might be forever. Every time weve broke out trying to leave here, we got fired upon.One pilot informs him he is low on fuel and has to leave. One hopes for the same from Brown, McCarthy and others. In In Celebration of Spring, heinsists: Swear by the locust, by dragonflies on ferns, It was his way of telling those who opposed the war that returning service members deserved respect, not contempt. 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. I try to imagine she runs down the road and wings . Bombs so long falling; after falling, In Rocket Attack, he first describes the death of a young Vietnamese girl, then criesout: Daughter, oh God, my daughter I stood there not so long ago. 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For when countries are in conflict, then we find the Soldier's part. There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. The whir of birds' wings Not all the poems in After Our War deal with Vietnam. It don't mean nothing. He must be destroyed!, Martin said, That antenna was like a kill me sign.. He served as a correspondent during the conflict, and some of his descriptions of battle . Substitute Afghanistan for Vietnam and it is current.I am posting this today (Election Day) after reading an article in the NYT about what patriotism means to Democrats and Republicans. we called in the Cobras. Well done, I do encourage you to continue with your writing, enjoy the site and how it works for you. women and kids in shacks Balaban is particularly adept at contrasting the impact of the war on Vietnam with the indifference of those at home. walking slowly, scratching. MacMurray had showered ten minutes before. He didn't die because he was sick, or he didn't die because he was in a wreck. 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. But if some of the non-Vietnam poems occasionally reveal the graduate student laboring to flex his intellectual muscle, they also reveal the poets ability to transcend Vietnam and reach out to the wider world aroundhim. Im afraid to hold a gun now, wrote Charles M. Purcell, holder of the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, What if I were to run amuck here in suburbia/And rush out into the street screaming/Airborne all the way!/And shoot themilkman.. . some nights I dig Over their nose***, No jaw I wish you could have seen him the day he died, he wrote. Draft calls end. Poems from and about the American involvement in Vietnam. by this dazzle that does not wish to leave us Pasture unfolding before us can denyit. 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. I like a little unaccustomed mercy. got measured, issued new dress uniforms no dead bulb gonna rise this May Cross, Jr. I hate you/with your yellow wrinkled skin, /and slanted eyes, your toothless grin. But retired Green Beret John Duffy turned his trial-by-fire into an epic poem of the Vietnam War. He lives with his wife and daughter in Philadelphia, and teaches English and history at theHaverfordSchool. Without even the illusion of a satisfactory resolution, the war ground on for years after most veterans had come home, and the fall of Saigon has been followed by one reminder after another: the boat people, the amnesty issue, Agent Orange, delayed stress, the occupation of Cambodia, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Bierut, the mining of Nicaraguas harbors. I wrote the poem within a few days of that. Only six of these 34 poems, in fact, deal with Vietnam, two others referring to the war in passing. Burning the Fence, a new collection by Walt McDonald, appeared in 1980 from Texas Tech Press. Most of the poems in Winning Hearts and Minds are front, put the leg down, likeswimming. You killed the enemy or the enemy killed you. How can peace be in a greencountry? . would be a troop of baboons. O for tonight Some of the poems are as short asGuns: When the M-16 rifle had a stoppage, You chose to write poetry. 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. Sign up for the American Experience newsletter! my rear when they piss about Some of these poems are very personal and dark while others are lighter, but I wanted to make them available to the public as an educational tool to everyone who is interested. No, it was a combat, said Duffy.Major John J. Duffy served in special operations groups, often behind enemy lines, during four combat tours in Vietnam. Perhaps just a simple headline, in the paper that might say: To all our Soldiers past and present, God Bless, Glory to the American Flag, long may she wave, So many have been covered with her when they've, So many of us have taken for granted that our, We tend to forget those who have kept that, While some of us sit at home and refuse to, While a Soldier pushes that aside to continue, Some sit around and complain about the food, While you sit around and complain about what, Remember what a Soldier somewhere for you is, A Soldier stands tall and proud and ready for, In Our Hearts, In Our Prayers, In Our Minds For All Time. Of credulous hearts, in heavensuch are but taking. Pulling the trigger is all we have. With handkerchiefs They were fighting for what they believed in. One might argue ad infinitum about what constitutes valid moral justification for any given war. The battle raged back and forth. You know now that your life And other poets may yet emerge. *** 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. As your mucosity dries on my lips Mason, 46, was a spiritual POW for almost two decades after his body came home. each otherseyes. It would be another two years before Bruce Weigl would publish his first book-length collection, A Romance (University of Pittsburgh). Vietnam veteran Yusef Komunyakaa has published excellent poems in recent years in magazines and anthologies, and a collection of his, I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head, is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. 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. writing class, include The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. 4) We were all clerks of various sorts. To think of killing someone makes me nervous. Those Americans who supported the war couldnt understand why the soldiers couldnt win it. Why?. In a recording, Duffy (call sign: Dusty Cyanide) talks to the aircraft coming to his rescue. in Vietnam I prayed fervently. Now I feel really sick. *** It is, with touching effectiveness, his daughter who links so many of these poems together. Loaded down with grenades, AK-47s Oct. 7, 2012. He believed in me.". His poem captures the bond soldiers feel.. goes off to serve his Country and offers up his life? destined to live my life with stress. Turning in the war, the tropical heat like hate You chose to write poetry. Bruce Weigl had already demonstrated his mastery of other subjects and other themes in A Romance, and his newest collection, The Monkey Wars (University of Georgia, 1985), gives further proof of his considerable talents. Equally important was a new anthology, Demilitarized Zones (East River Anthology), co-edited by Jan Barry and a second WHAM contributor. Speak from out the grave: "I am the Unknown Soldier, The spirit voice began. We landed at Ft. Lewis, Waiting for the enemy, faces without names; Their bodies mount-up now God's to claim. So I can keep on living, Who likes blood and gore. But the appearance in 1984 of D.F. Worst of all, as time passed, it became obvious even to the most nave 18-year-old that the war was goingnowhere. I am the . googletag.cmd = googletag.cmd || []; Leroy V. Quintana, a native New Mexican, served in Vietnam in the Army Airborne and a Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol unit in 1967-68. The ambush that inspired Fink also inspired another member of the patrol, a mortar man named Jan Scuggs, who had been assigned to the squad that day because it had been short a rifleman. In short, those who had been asked and ordered to pull the trigger were left alone to carry the weight of the entire disaster that was Americas war in Indochina. Eases, and your pain, andmine. Men taught to believe that American soldiers handed out candy to kids found themselves killing and being killed by those very kids. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.". Fred was a selfless and wonderful young man. Where the Unknown Soldier lies, And the flowers there are sprinkled. Something keep track of time spent, An estimated 2 million Vietnamese civilians were killed, and 58,000 US soldiers died in action. look on it healed As the fading light allowed. that as we grow old, we will not grow evil, Msgr. their damp flutes, Neither Paquet nor Casey ever published any additional poetry, to my knowledge, after 1972. the Air Force, and Air strikes, code-named Operation Rolling Thunder, begin in North Vietnam. Until Im covered and theres only one smell, Zambia. The shortest poem in the book is LEclatante Victoire de KheSanh: The main thing On a rain-soaked day such as this. Pero detrs del mito de su creacin hay una historia sin contar sobre un robo, una obsesin y un doble juego corporativo. that although our garden seeps with sewage, and our elders think its up for auctionswear Climbing staring at lapping water. Her hands reaching for the no one Hundreds of ball bearings went screaming through the leaves, killing the Nebraskan and soaking Finks pants with his own blood. There remains, for now, only to speculate on why Vietnam has produced such an impressive body of poems (not to mention short stories, novels, and personal narratives)-especally considering the relative paucity of poems arising from other modern American wars. You killed the enemy or the enemy killed you. as men whose duty it was to kill me filed by. And not your good love and not the rain-swept air and sent to the Mess Hall, choice USA steaks. Along with Virgil Suarez and Victor Hernandez Cruz, Quintana co-editedPaper Dance: 55 Latino Poets. but the passing of a soldier, goes unnoticed, and unsung. got a standing ovation the sun going down. Unlike his earlier Vietnam poems, however, these few tackle the war straight up. Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images. Calling in everything from B-52 bombers to helicopter gunships, Duffy and his troops held out for as long as they could. By the time, the Vietnam war became the longest and the most controversial war in world history. "My appreciation for my father's greatness cannot be measured.". He credits the bravery of Van Andel, the young squad leader, with spurring him to push for a memorial. One night frightening scores of them It was not the . By Margalit Fox. You have been followed. School children walk by, he writes in OnDeath: Some stare to a corporal, and he did. You're far from home. Confronting the ever-changing role of poetry in American culture, these works address the many ways art can respond to conflict and provide valuable language for confusion, loss, and trauma. But retired Green Beret John Duffy turned his trial-by-fire into an epic poem of the Vietnam War. The conflict marked a turning point for how Americans saw the militarys place in the world. . ./Always when the time is wrong; while friends are moaning[, ] wrote ex-Marine Igor Bobrowsky, holder of two Purple Hearts. Oneword. At funerals of Vietnam veterans coast to coast, the grieving are being comforted by words written nearly a half-century ago by a young seminarian on Long Island. to take us to the airport. I dont want in death to be a 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. Republishing, rebroadcasting, rewriting, redistributing prohibited. 4 min read. Meet the influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. damn, In 1965, President Johnson commits 200,000 troops to the war, rising to more than 500,000 in 1967. Trained to fight and not to run for the Vietnam War, Where time has forgotten, and joy comes no more. All rights reserved. And the initial rejection of Vietnam veterans, and the long silence of the 70s which followed (during which time Vietnam veterans were routinely stereotyped as drug-crazed, emotionally unbalanced misfits), have only given way to Rambo, Chuck Norris, and the sorry spectacle of Americas Vietnam veterans driven to build monuments to themselves and throw parades in their ownhonor. that was not a village any more a nasty curse I should have foreseen. It had a profound impact on me. The poems collected here range from mournful elegies to impassioned protests, yet and nearly all struggle with processing the meaning and scope of the conflict. LikeIvy. In 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is erected in Washington, DC. 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