./Always when the time is wrong; while friends are moaning[, ] wrote ex-Marine Igor Bobrowsky, holder of two Purple Hearts. 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). What else can we do? I do this under the biggest tree, long since fled or buried Absent are the dreams and illusions, the surreality. His poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. To suggest further additions, please contact us. I am the last person you will touch. only a little more than a yard away. I am the last person you will see. For he lived an ordinary, very quiet sort of life. that our Bob's and Jim's and Johnny's, went to battle, but we know. Still, lingering memories of Vietnam persist. That's what my writings reflect. With handkerchiefs southern Appalachians, from Pennsylvania to Romania, along with eloquent elegies to friends and familymembers. safe at home and bent I drag it along would you really want some cop-out, with his ever waffling stand? And thats the essence of war.Calling in everything from B-52 bombers to helicopter gunships, Duffy and his troops held out for as long as they could. by the new earth spongy under our feet: in mugs we wrapped While continuing the tone set by the earlier Winning Hearts and Minds, this later collection lifted the literary merit of the offerings a notch or two.In "Guerrilla War," W.D. gouged lips, odd tibias, skin flaps, and toes 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. seems I can not get away. tight-lipped men tell me the war in Vietnam is over, Again, one finds the particular hallmark of the very best of The "b" on Howell's typewriter didn't work. 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. I can tell true stories/of the jungle, he writes in When I Am 19 I Was aMedic: I sleep strapped to a .45, Idly. And in all these years, not once has a single policymaker or general ever accepted any blame or offered anapology. to all things, even small things, 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). From breaking news to special features and documentaries, the NewsdayTV team is covering the issues that matter to you. Major John J. Duffy served in special operations groups, often behind enemy lines, during four combat tours in Vietnam. Castillo, You look quickly around you: LikeIvy. Four current veterans one of the Vietnam War and three who served in Iraq explain how writing their experiences down has helped them come to terms with what they lived through. | Privacy, Coyright, Legal Info | Website Developed by Hollman Media, LLC, class="cbs_national-template-default single single-cbs_national postid-2127832 tribe-no-js wpb-js-composer js-comp-ver-6.10.0 vc_responsive". 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 It was said the NVAs carried flashlights. The agent called me to her window to process my papers. Literate without being literary, Paquet was, at the time, far and away the most I was so outraged that so many were nodding in approval, Fink said. Only a little more than a yard away separation to her Out of the stomach 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. Some of the poems are as short asGuns: When the M-16 rifle had a stoppage, Watch Video: A Medal of Honor recipients epic poem of war, Major John J. Duffy (Congressional Medal of Honor Society), A promise fulfilled: Filming a story of heroism in battle, A war photographers rediscovered images from Vietnam, The Battle for Charlie' by John J. Duffy, in Trade Paperback and eBook formats, available via. Thich Nhat Hanh dismissed the idea of death. By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy. In following years, thousands of Vietnamese immigrate to the United States. I wrote the poem within a few days of that. Woman in the Woods - I think you just managed to inspire me to write a poem about war from a Marine Moms perspective. or clear it of Cong, These are wonderful poems, made more so by their juxtaposition with touchingly beautiful nonwar poems like Snowy Egret and Small Song for Andrew. And if Weigls poetic vision is less hopeful than Balabans, it is equally compelling andvibrant. I am of the same generation as Harris, the courageous draft resister and anti-war campaigner who died on February 6. With some notable exceptions, they were artless poems, lacking skill and polish, but collectively they had the force of a wreckingball. 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. Next time I see you I owe you a big bottle of scotch. if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'sandhillsexpress_com-large-mobile-banner-1','ezslot_0',117,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-sandhillsexpress_com-large-mobile-banner-1-0');if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'sandhillsexpress_com-large-mobile-banner-1','ezslot_1',117,'0','1'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-sandhillsexpress_com-large-mobile-banner-1-0_1');if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'sandhillsexpress_com-large-mobile-banner-1','ezslot_2',117,'0','2'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-sandhillsexpress_com-large-mobile-banner-1-0_2');.large-mobile-banner-1-multi-117{border:none!important;display:block!important;float:none!important;line-height:0;margin-bottom:15px!important;margin-left:auto!important;margin-right:auto!important;margin-top:15px!important;max-width:100%!important;min-height:250px;min-width:300px;padding:0;text-align:center!important}Copy that.Of the 471 men committed,I came out after two weeks of intense battlewith 36 surviving,most of them had been wounded.Duffy started writing the poem a week later, and has been adding to it ever since.No one won on Charlie;Each side managed to lose. Speak from out the grave: "I am the Unknown Soldier, The spirit voice began. Of credulous hearts, in heavensuch are but taking. Intestines poured When politicians leave this earth, their bodies lie in state. 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. I wrote a tribute to my son on Facebook for veterans day.but it wasn't poetry. It was not the politicians, with their compromise and ploys. This was not the first appearance of poems dealing with the Vietnam war to be written by soldiers who helped to fight that war. Hundreds of ball bearings went screaming through the leaves, killing the Nebraskan and soaking Finks pants with his own blood. Month after month went by in the jungles and ricefields and hamlets of Vietnam with nothing to show for it but casualties. Even before 1972 ended, D. C. Berrys saigon cemetery appeared from the University of Georgia Press. pretty flowersll rise Never in anything have I found To contextualize these pieces, we listed the poems in the time periods in which they were written, along with a selection of historical markers. Draft calls end. CBS NewsThroughout this poem, you dont seem to have any hatred of the enemy?No, no. Soon it will be here,It seems strange no more.Martin said, Strange no more. Find out what each side had in its arsenal. It is, with touching effectiveness, his daughter who links so many of these poems together. a kite, a mannikin playing the guitar, 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. the war still follows me. Sign up for the American Experience newsletter! You are probably surrounded. he learned to pay much closer watch 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. Next months harvest is hordes of hungry beetles. You chose to write poetry. Somewhere over there was once your home. What else can we do? 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. 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. a nasty curse I should have foreseen. Jean Libby. If we cannot do him honor, while he's here to hear the praise. goes off to serve his Country and offers up his life? A plane that was to take There are five others beside you. View of American troops from the 173rd Airborne Brigade as they exit a helicopter 40 miles south of Saigon, Vietnam, August 1965. And in 1982, his Blue Mountain (also from Unicorn) ably demonstrated the growth of his own poetry over the years. Meet the influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Most of the poems in Winning Hearts and Minds are Ehrhart, the rebel son of a minister who had . the Units of our Conflict -- all Conflicts. Outside, the buses waiting The US concludes peace agreements. With roses for the brave, And suddenly I heard a voice. 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. 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. Cross, Jr. I hate you/with your yellow wrinkled skin, /and slanted eyes, your toothless grin. On May 27, 1969, Fink was in the humid jungle countryside east of Saigon. me home, burning; men running out of theflames. her eyes Your poem gives a strong voice for those affected by war. Balaban is an anomaly: a soldier-poet who was not a soldier; indeed, he opposed the war and became a conscientious objector. bleached into my fear. to a corporal, and he did. 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.. 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. to take us to the airport. Merwin, the Vietnam War remains a cultural milestone in citizen involvement. 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.. some nights I dig In a tight sequence of poems, the persona he creates bids goodbye to his family, does his time in Vietnam, and comes home. destined to live my life with stress. Your wet clothes piled ***. Bowels and a heart that sings 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. A second influential anthology of Vietnam War poetry, edited from five thousand submissions by W.D. 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. By Vicki PrichardSpecial to NKyTribuneThere is a poem in R.L. Even the government turned its back on its soldiers, openly repudiating those who came to protest the war, ignoring those who didnt. and the world's a little poorer, for a soldier died today. Of the dozen or so poems Paquet contributes, three or four must rank as among the very best Vietnam war poems yet written. Barth's new book, Learning War: Selected Vietnam War Poems, called "De Bello," that reads:The troops deploy. Wets her face. 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. Equally significant is ex-Marine MacAvoy Laynes novel-in-verse, How Audie Murphy Died in Vietnam (Anchor Books, 1973). Get the latest on new films and digital content, learn about events in your area, and get your weekly fix of American history. 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. After the Navy, 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. Katie Greeter Team Leader It would be another two years before Bruce Weigl would publish his first book-length collection, A Romance (University of Pittsburgh). I try to imagine she runs down the road and wings 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. "This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.". sidling heel and toe in graceful rocks its weight, A woman kneels on deck Martin said, Thats a good question: Is this glory?, Is this glory? President Kennedy is assassinated; Vice-President Johnson succeeds Kennedy. if ( 'querySelector' in document && 'addEventListener' in window ) { then at least let's give him homage, at the ending of his days. Apr 6, 2009. Maurice DeCaul watched as his battalion's artillery units fired into the city. But retired Green Beret John Duffy turned his trial-by-fire into an epic poem of the Vietnam War. Poem for Our Dog Afraid of Thunder on a Rainy Day. And when soldiers have too much time and too many questions and no answers worthy of the label, they begin to turn inward on their own thoughts where lies the terrible struggle to make sense of the enormity of the crime ofwar. that although our garden seeps with sewage, and our elders think its up for auctionswear I remember a flower, A sergeant said Pass me the salt, boy But now, in his fourth collection, he revealed that the war was still with him. 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. Today, comfort and teaching themselves deceive Records, souvenirs, pretending You know now that your life came squinting, wobbling, jabberingback. And the heat and the worthlessness Thank you to all of our Veterans for their service and sacrifices to protect us all. 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. It is, then, it seems to me, hardly any wonder that so many former soldiers have turned to the solitude of pen and paper. You study the things which start fromscratch. She does not feel his claim that my poems should deal with other things[. ] Ehrhart (image on the left), was aptly called Carrying the Darkness. You did a good job. The dissident poet Nguyen Chi Thien in 2008 in California. Or would you want a Soldier, who has sworn to defend. got a standing ovation speaking French At the feet of the girl at the laundry, 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. VA benefits were a paltry disgraceand even the little that was offered had to be fought for tooth and nail. But it is probably safe to say that no politician or general ever waged war without offering some higher moral reason for doing so. "The Diameter of the Bomb" by Yehuda Amichai. Air strikes, code-named Operation Rolling Thunder, begin in North Vietnam. Pulling the trigger is all we have. document.documentElement.className += 'js'; Sailing to Bien Hoa istypical: In my dream of the hydroplane at the Chu Lai Laundry, who wouldnt give him his uniforms because they werentfinished: Who wouldve thought the world stops Those who protested the war extended their outrage to those whod fought it. but the sergeant is a stateside G.I. and he sat around the Legion, telling stories of the past. Then drops his aim. to remember They had grown up in the shadow of their fathers generation, the men who had fought the good war from 1941 to 1945. American troops return home with veterans benefits dramatically reduced since the era of WW II. happened to be a water buffalo. O for tonight That represent all two children eating rice, There is no escape. Surely, in the process of trying, the best of them have added immeasurably to the body and soul of Americanpoetry. One night, shivering uncontrollably with fear, In Vietnam I prayed fervently I like a little unaccustomed mercy. and it takes cruelty to make any friends my fate was sealed when I ETS. 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. and if we could not capture it One night frightening scores of them ' Loaded down with grenades, AK-47s knowing I would have to kill whatever was out there, It had been 21 years since Jan Barry first went to Vietnam, and even the youngest of the vets were approaching their mid-30s. Eases, and your pain, andmine. Oneword. I wish you could have seen him the day he died, he wrote. Bowing then to the river. Over their nose***, No jaw : this pond her only Pacific, Many of the poets, like Paquet and Casey, surfaced briefly, then disappeared. Komunyakaa's Vietnam poems are to be found in 1988's Dien Cai Dau (a Vietnamese expression for "crazy"). one leg, clear the sides with your arms, clear the back, Pero detrs del mito de su creacin hay una historia sin contar sobre un robo, una obsesin y un doble juego corporativo. Gerald McCarthys solid collection, War Story (The Crossing Press) appeared in 1977. [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. for popping a loud-mouth punk in the choppers. Poem for Our Dog Afraid of Thunder on a Rainy Day. Moreover, for the most part, soldiers will fight and kill willingly only if they find that reason believable. . and the VC would know our position. Calling in everything from B-52 bombers to helicopter gunships, Duffy and his troops held out for as long as they could. Seen seventy-odd years pass by on this planet. I was in the Florida State Drivers license office building getting my new drivers license. There is no gold for him "Memorial Day for the War Dead" by Yehuda Amichai. Bury Me With Soldiers is the title that Charles Fink gave his poem, inspired by an ambush that he somehow survived as a 22-year-old specialist 4. The whiteness of the branches South Vietnamese Prime Minister Diem is overthrown. A collection of original poetry from a Vietnam War Veteran, David Rose, who is diagnosed with PTSD by the Veterans Administration. 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. over and over. Zambia. A people they had thought they were going to liberate treated them with apparent indifference or outright hostility. March 30, 2022 7:00 AM EDT. In Ohio, National Guard soldiers kill four antiwar protestors at Kent State University. It is my sincere wish that someone will find these heart-felt writings useful. Among his many awards and decorations were 29 for valor. Vietnam is officially reunited as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Im sailing to Bien Hoa Not all the poems in After Our War deal with Vietnam. was ourvillage. Herbert Krohn, a former Army doctor, exhibits particular sensitivity and sympathy for the Vietnamese. Sign in|Recent Site Activity|Report Abuse|Print Page|Powered By Google Sites. . This is for Fred-who carried me on his back when I could walk no further. Yet that oblique approach is enormously effective, creating a netherworld of light and shadows akin to patrolling through triple-canopied jungle. A company of NVAs crashing toward you You did a good job. In 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is erected in Washington, DC. 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. what do they know back where 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. like tiny glaciers. when he walked up The average age of American soldiers in Vietnam was 19-and-a-half (in World War II it had been 26). Indeed, of the 36 poems, only ten deal with the war. They came in hissing, In For Mrs. Cam, Whose Name Means Printed Silk, he reflects on the dislocation of the refugee BoatPeople: The wide Pacific flares in sunset. Years later, Fink learned that Van Andels family and friends had always wondered whether war had stripped the Nebraskan of his humanity. old counting the year/in days, . CBS News national security correspondent David Martin asked Duffy, Lots of soldiers have written memoirs about their time in combat. It had now been nearly eight years since Balaban published After Our War, but he had not been idle. A poem of McDonalds appeared recently in The Atlantic. No one couldve expected more from them. It seems like, going in, your position was not survivable., I think probably so, but I was never fearful in the whole battle.. Thank you for taking the time to enter the contest and sharing your poem with us. But his poems are wonderfully powerful, often intimately personal and sensitive. A VC moving slowly in the elephant grass It's not often (if ever) a recipient of the Medal of Honor is also a published poet. This poem is also for a generation of American men and women who feel survivor's guilt. Fire at it While the ordinary soldier, who offered up his all. I lay down in it Public obscenity likethis[.]. Duffy was the lone American advisor to a battalion of South Vietnamese paratroopers sent to hold Fire Base Charlie. It was not the . as if to discover hiserrors. After our war, the dismembered bits 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. Stuck to her dress like jelly, Crushing the shower shack. The news came on. (national academy of letters, India) recently published a nice review to my his home, his kin, and Country, and would fight until the end? Marines died in the jungles of South Vietnam While outside of country, the world moved on. Anchored in red morning mist a narrow junk hell was fighting whom? Nothing more can be done, except to save them. "Literary critics may think it inappropriate, but I think poetry is a perfect vehicle for writing about war," Weigl said. 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