Vietnam

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Vietnam

What about the time we bombed Vietnam, 
where were you
was the pressure on?
Did you cry at all when we took the fall, or did you look away that day?
I saw men die.
body parts.
young and old with broken hearts,
drafted into foreign wars
with slanted eyes, not like ours
and I came home with battle scars
Where were you when I tossed and turned?
flashing back to bodies burned,
name it for my sake PTPD
An acronym for post traumatic phychic distress.
It was a mess.
and we took the cake - yours and mine
except for the one I tripped on that tore my leg to smithereens
and speaking of Marines…that was me
I was just a teen, out of school - High that is; 
on pot too.  It got us through, 
now again in Afghanistan
What about the time we bombed Vietnam, 
where were you
was the pressure on?

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