Doublereed Archive - Posting 000077.txt from 2005/05

From: John Vasko <boanerges@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] A Memorial Day Tribute to American Soldiers
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 01:09:48 -0400

Thank you!
John Vasko, Capt. USAF, 1962-64

On May 29, 2005, at 7:39 PM, Oboeeee@-----.com wrote:

>
> We went from Victory to Liberty and now we are at this new Stonehenge
> With the silent dolmans standing round
> As though tombs were set upon the ground
> We are being walled in and we don't know where it will end
> Will we be totally enclosed as concrete that has been posed?
> Around our trailers like upright stones
> As though they were some ancient bones
> From some strange creature seen in a movie feature
> Or will they be removed someday?
> When we at last can finally say
> We've done our job and all are free
> And we can go back to Liberty
>
> -Sgt. Sean Smith, American poet
>
> *Among the U.S. troops serving in Iraq, a small group of soldier-poets
> convene to share their verses. At Camp Victory, a U.S. military base
> at Baghdad's
> international airport, the "poetry jams" occur every two weeks.
>
>
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