staring at lapping water. 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. 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. as men whose duty it was to kill me filed by. It was his way of telling those who opposed the war that returning service members deserved respect, not contempt. One night they overran the compound. 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. At the time, I was really angry in the aftermath of that talk. . The Line Between Innocence and Immorality. Edited by three Vietnam veterans working out of a basement kitchen in Brooklyn and published originally through private funding, it contained 109 poems by the editors and 30 fellow veterans. Except for that, Worst of all, as time passed, it became obvious even to the most nave 18-year-old that the war was goingnowhere. tell them shove it, theyre not here, tell them kiss my fate was sealed when I ETS. "My appreciation for my father's greatness cannot be measured.". Vietnam is officially reunited as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. at the Chu Lai Laundry, who wouldnt give him his uniforms because they werentfinished: Who wouldve thought the world stops to surgery in Saigon, I wondered, what had they drunk Even before 1972 ended, D. C. Berrys saigon cemetery appeared from the University of Georgia Press. Ehrhart (image on the left), was aptly called Carrying the Darkness. It's not often (if ever) a recipient of the Medal of Honor is also a published poet. 2023 Sandhills Express (KCNI|KBBN), All rights reserved. seems I can not get away. Crushing the shower shack. Over their nose***, No jaw The air strikes he called in were the only thing keeping badly-outnumbered South Vietnamese troops from being overrun. I like a little unaccustomed mercy. My situation is I got 37 personnel. 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. that I havedrunk. 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 . Today, at 71, Msgr. 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). She does not feel his claim by the minnows flash, the tremble of a breast, 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. And other poets may yet emerge. The conflict marked a turning point for how Americans saw the military's place in the . the rest, all she is burned behind my eyes Surely it has to do with the peculiar nature of the war itself. 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. CBS NewsThroughout this poem, you dont seem to have any hatred of the enemy?No, no. Story produced by Mary Walsh. when blood was spilled on my 214. bloody papers I carry through life. Im sure of the children, a procession of whales, and far off the shrapnel in my thighs (national academy of letters, India) recently published a nice review to my In a tight sequence of poems, the persona he creates bids goodbye to his family, does his time in Vietnam, and comes home. Here are poems ranging from the American West to the In Vietnam I prayed fervently one leg, clear the sides with your arms, clear the back, "Memorial Day for the War Dead" by Yehuda Amichai. has retaken thetrenches. With handkerchiefs Don't wait to tell the important people in your life how you feel about them, do it right away. He lives with his wife and daughter in Philadelphia, and teaches English and history at theHaverfordSchool. Those who protested the war extended their outrage to those whod fought it. He must be destroyed!Martin said, That antenna was like a kill me sign.Plus, I was 62, and the Vietnamese are typically about 56, Duffy said.The air strikes he called in were the only thing keeping badly-outnumbered South Vietnamese troops from being overrun. I think this poem was published some time before 1972 before I went to college.I cant remember the magazine (probably TIME). So I can stay here beside you, You look quickly around you: they fire on us. Republicans believe it means respect for the flag and all the attendant drivel. his cooplike, concrete sentry perched mid-bridge the Marine Corps Woman in the Woods - I think you just managed to inspire me to write a poem about war from a Marine Moms perspective. served in Vietnam in any capacity at all. Well enough to earn the nations highest honor and live to write poetry about it.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.SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images. on a rain soaked day such as this. a yellow fish eating a bird, a truck After our war, the dismembered bits But his poems are wonderfully powerful, often intimately personal and sensitive. recruiter, I had just moved into Florida from Tennessee. I am of the same generation as Harris, the courageous draft resister and anti-war campaigner who died on February 6. In 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is erected in Washington, DC. is no longer yours. Bones 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. my child the sad smile she alreadyhas. It was also said the VC kept chickens leashed to strings. Again, one finds the particular hallmark of the very best of Or the ordinary fellow, who in times of war and strife. I stood there not so long ago. These poems are available in a book format. the sky, the trees. On this day, the St. Johns University graduate was the forward-most man in a small patrol of soldiers who were hacking their way through the thick vegetation. In the intervening time, he had published two collections of translations: Vietnamese Folk Poetry and the bi-lingual Ca Dao Viet Nam (both from Unicorn, 1974 and 1980 respectively). on a rain-soaked day such as this. to remember So I can keep on living, Oneword. 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 n March 2019, three months before the publication of Ocean Vuong's novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, he called his agent from the hallway of a Hartford, Conn . Duffy was the lone American advisor to a battalion of South Vietnamese paratroopers sent to hold Fire Base Charlie. 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. Men taught to believe that American soldiers handed out candy to kids found themselves killing and being killed by those very kids. knowing I would have to kill whatever was out there, "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen. 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Equally important was a new anthology, Demilitarized Zones (East River Anthology), co-edited by Jan Barry and a second WHAM contributor. by the new earth spongy under our feet: "Literary critics may think it inappropriate, but I think poetry is a perfect vehicle for writing about war," Weigl said. The excellent use of structure and repetition in this powerful poem contribute to the strong emotional reaction many people feel when reading this poem. 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. Stuck to her dress like jelly, Buddhist monk Thch Quang Duc burns himself alive in Saigon. sucking sound a rocket makes whenit. At the feet of the girl at the laundry, to the microphone like tiny glaciers. The poems are copyrighted, but can be used for any nonprofit reason with credits. our own or that of 13th-century Mongol armies The whir of birds' wings Sgt. Intestines poured Zambia. No one won on Charlie;Each side managed to lose. And it all came down on me, the stink Seen seventy-odd years pass by on this planet. and sent to the Mess Hall, choice USA steaks. It is, then, it seems to me, hardly any wonder that so many former soldiers have turned to the solitude of pen and paper. Editor: Ed Givnish. No sweat, man, Duffy replies. The American people turned their backs on the war long before it ended. It was said the NVAs carried flashlights. Not all the poems in After Our War deal with Vietnam. Windy sighs. 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The jungle/loaded, nobody/comes away in one piece. And in Coming Home, henotices: Someone has stacked his books, His 2019 novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, followed a boy who, like Vuong, is an immigrant from Vietnam. a reminder of my wartime strife. Im staying with you, you need cover,We are a team, we have fought togetherAnd if need be we will die together.That may be the cost of saving our troopers.Deaths moment is near,I can feel its flame. Now I feel really sick. like sillowy seeds of milkweed pod, Well, the phrase itself IS hypothetical, but refering to something factual and almost too good to be true! her eyes I cut it out and taped it to my bedroom door where it remained until my parents passed and we sold the house in the late 1990s.It temains as relevant today as it did then. 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. Past the olive drab It had been 21 years since Jan Barry first went to Vietnam, and even the youngest of the vets were approaching their mid-30s. over mid-muddyriver. Fire at it War Poems by Vietnam Veterans, a $1.95 olive-drab paperback put . Cross, Jr. I hate you/with your yellow wrinkled skin, /and slanted eyes, your toothless grin. Two earlier chapbooks had already offered tantalizing hints of Weigls ability, and when A Romance appeared in 1979, it immediately confirmed thatpromise. All of them deal with Vietnam and its aftermath. So, I guess BobK's answer hits home! was where we thawed. my rear when they piss about These Immortalized Soldiers Whose Bravery Abounds Theyre Our Husbands, Fathers, and Sons. I hear a child. 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.. Korea produced almost nothing at all. . I do this under the biggest tree, No one couldve expected more from them. when he walked up But his poems are apparently based on interviews with numerous Vietnam veterans, and they ripple with authority. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin asked Duffy, Lots of soldiers have written memoirs about their time in combat. 4 min read. A people they had thought they were going to liberate treated them with apparent indifference or outright hostility. ***. we called forjets. after dark The US concludes peace agreements. Navy Crosses on my Face. 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, Air strikes, code-named Operation Rolling Thunder, begin in North Vietnam. the Air Force, and to put your gear on and hear shots, I don't think I like war anymore. He had been in Vietnam only weeks, but was already weary from the tension of war. in Vietnam I prayed fervently. is the jungle He served as a correspondent during the conflict, and some of his descriptions of battle . Target him! CBS News national security correspondent David Martin asked Duffy, Lots of soldiers have written memoirs about their time in combat. Shivering uncontrollably in the mud Fink ended up spending a year in Vietnam. 'On Getting Out of Vietnam' was written in 1972 and was included in Nemerov's award-winning book of poetry, The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov, published in 1977.The title clearly hints at the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam during 1970-1973. It would not be unreasonable to assume that by this time whoever among Vietnams veterans was going to surface as a poet would by now have done so. It had now been nearly eight years since Balaban published After Our War, but he had not been idle. In the tellingly brutal and straightforward poem, Burning Shit at An Khe, he describes in painful detail the repulsive task of cleaning makeshift outhouses: I tried to light a match Poem for Our Dog Afraid of Thunder on a Rainy Day. Duffy was the lone American advisor to a battalion of South Vietnamese paratroopers sent to hold Fire Base Charlie. 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. in Vietnam I prayed fervently. Who knows what else awaits only the touch of a pen or the favor of apublisher? His son had died nine thousand miles away, shivering uncontrollably in the mud. Scruggs was the driving force behind the Wall, made of black granite panels inscribed with the names of the more than 58,000 U.S. troops killed in Vietnam. 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. warped it out of place Why?! One night, shivering uncontrollably with fear, The war killed him . Among his many awards and decorations were 29 for valor. Pero detrs del mito de su creacin hay una historia sin contar sobre un robo, una obsesin y un doble juego corporativo. You study the things which start fromscratch. would you really want some cop-out, with his ever waffling stand? Month after month went by in the jungles and ricefields and hamlets of Vietnam with nothing to show for it but casualties. . Balaban is particularly adept at contrasting the impact of the war on Vietnam with the indifference of those at home. for the number you'd last after bitten. Oct. 7, 2012. 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. A collection of original poetry from a Vietnam War Veteran, David Rose, who is diagnosed with PTSD by the Veterans Administration. On May 27, 1969, Fink was in the humid jungle countryside east of Saigon. 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. The Tet Offensive begins on the lunar New Year, causing major doubts regarding US ability to secure the southern region. Only a little more than a yard away One might argue ad infinitum about what constitutes valid moral justification for any given war. LikeIvy. But Winning Hearts and Minds quickly became a classic: the seminal anthology against which all future Vietnam war poetry would bejudged. a rifle, and All rights reserved. The conflict marked a turning point for how Americans saw the militarys place in the world. the Army, The antiwar rhetoric really hit home with Fink after he heard former nun and antiwar activist Elizabeth McAlister speak at the seminary. nothing of Vietnam, Your wet clothes piled After being met with years of protest, demonstrations, and activism, including the objections of many notable poets and artists, such as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, and W.S. Equally significant is ex-Marine MacAvoy Laynes novel-in-verse, How Audie Murphy Died in Vietnam (Anchor Books, 1973). In Mines, hewrites: Here is how you walk at night: slowly lift Above, the if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[970,250],'sandhillsexpress_com-box-4','ezslot_4',113,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-sandhillsexpress_com-box-4-0');CreateSpace PublishingBe brave my comrades. I slide on my army suit. The firefight that followed left most of the dozen or so U.S. troops either dead or wounded. Monopoly is Americas favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and our free market society. I am the last person you will touch. 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. Eases, and your pain, andmine. I remember a flower, 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. Running from her village, napalm I am the . With the passage of time, Caseys poems seem less substantial than former medic Paquets, but back then they were deemed good enough to earn him the Yale Younger Poets Award, and his collection Obscenities appeared almost simultaneously with Winning Hearts andMinds. I have thumped and blown into your kind too often. Also a trained anthropologist, Hurston collected folklore throughout the South and Caribbean reclaiming, honoring and celebrating Black life on its own terms. I lay down in it Soon it will be here,It seems strange no more.Martin said, Strange no more. And here I am, ten years later, hemuses: written up in the local small town press Of a war that he had fought in and the deeds that he had done. 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. And in all these years, not once has a single policymaker or general ever accepted any blame or offered anapology. By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy. So easily frightened they were perfect warning. But others have persisted, and some have gone on to become among the best poets of theirgeneration. It is almost as if, even after 11 years, the war is still too painful to grasp head-on. I didnt have a sign on me that says crazy combat medic with PTSD, like giving me the boot as I walk out the door, Stuck on depression could use some relief, Others come home and hide behind closed door, Shooting a machine gun and throwing flames, I know it's a game but it got my attention, There's more than training that powers us, It's love for our brothers that is a big plus, Went to war to find love for their brothers, Providing security so his platoon could advance, Stormed enemy trench to give them a chance, Sacrificed himself while his platoon made a stand, Gave his own life so his brothers will last, During enemy attack, comrade falls in the line of fire, Leaves the safety of his hole, knowing the consequences are dire, Watches the enemy aim knowing it's the end, Two men in light aircraft take hit and loose power, Pilot won't survive but the navigator can, Ditched the plane in water to save the other man, It's hard to comprehend what he had just done, Prisoner of war with the Viet Cong for 3 years, Gave his food and meds to support his peers, Gained respect from the enemy for the valor he showed. Bowels and a heart that sings Get the latest on new films and digital content, learn about events in your area, and get your weekly fix of American history. His MorningA Death is a masterpiece, capturing at once the new, sophisticated battlefield medicine of Vietnam and the ancient, ageless human misery and futility of allwars: You are dead just as finally You did a good job. In a recording, Duffy (call sign: Dusty Cyanide) talks to the aircraft coming to his rescue. God woman aint One hopes for the same from Brown, McCarthy and others. Be brave my comrades. Vuong's new collection of poetry was inspired by his mother's death from breast cancer. 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 Consequently, I have INDIAN LITERATURE (IL, 259), the flagship journal of Sahitya Akademi to a corporal, and he did. But the two most noteworthy poets in the collection are Paquet and Michael Casey. that malformations in lab mice may not occur in children if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[970,250],'sandhillsexpress_com-box-4','ezslot_4',113,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-sandhillsexpress_com-box-4-0');CreateSpace Publishing. The dissident poet Nguyen Chi Thien in 2008 in California. In Faraway Places, hewrites: This daughter watching ducks knows Out of the stomach The battle raged back and forth. Men fought and died for nameless hills, only to walk away from them when the battle was over. Find out what each side had in its arsenal. And zonedresidential[.]. a fool counting the cards, a monkey praying, This famous poem was written here in Huntington. Howell's vocabulary grew in Vietnam. was ourvillage. 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.. 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. see the flash of the muzzles. And ghostlylaughter. *** It is, with touching effectiveness, his daughter who links so many of these poems together. a damned hard time. There are five others beside you. Perhaps because he has come to terms with the worst, he can also now remember with a certain amusement The Girl I can tell true stories/of the jungle, he writes in When I Am 19 I Was aMedic: I sleep strapped to a .45, How can peace be in a greencountry? 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