4 min read. "The Diameter of the Bomb" by Yehuda Amichai. But his poems are wonderfully powerful, often intimately personal and sensitive. 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.. An event that stunned the nation and forced an examination of U.S. military training and tactics. . Martin said, Thats a good question: Is this glory?, Is this glory? ***. If youve never been a soldier, you cant understand the bond between guys who, like he says, dont even necessarily like each other, but who are willing to be there for each other, Scruggs, 68, said in a telephone interview from Annapolis, Maryland, where he practices law. Across my chest They were fighting for what they believed in. 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. Windy sighs. And here I am, ten years later, hemuses: written up in the local small town press Soon it will be here,It seems strange no more. that I havedrunk. That's what my writings reflect. Chocolate steamed Vuong's new collection of poetry was inspired by his mother's death from breast cancer. It wont matter then to me but now Even before 1972 ended, D. C. Berrys saigon cemetery appeared from the University of Georgia Press. all those pierced eyes, ear slivers, jaw splinters, One night, shivering uncontrollably with fear, the sad smile she alreadyhas. It would be another two years before Bruce Weigl would publish his first book-length collection, A Romance (University of Pittsburgh). Some of the poems are as short asGuns: When the M-16 rifle had a stoppage, We were fighting for what we believed in. The jungle/loaded, nobody/comes away in one piece. And in Coming Home, henotices: Someone has stacked his books, And 'tho sometimes to his neighbors, his tales became a joke. one leg, clear the sides with your arms, clear the back, . Never hear the horrible damn, March in Washington against the Vietnam War, Code Poem: From the International Code of Signals for the Use of All Nations, At the Justice Department November 15, 1969, America Politica Historia, in Spontaneity, Lines Written on the Occasion of President Nixon's Address to the Nation, May 8, 1972, Assemblage of Ruined Plane Parts, Vietnam Military Museum, Hanoi, Vietnamese-American poet contemplates his personal ties to the war, California Lecture: from Poetry and Politics, Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on the Vietnam War. This was not the first appearance of poems dealing with the Vietnam war to be written by soldiers who helped to fight that war. From breaking news to special features and documentaries, the NewsdayTV team is covering the issues that matter to you. I wrote the poem within a few days of that. CBS NewsThroughout this poem, you dont seem to have any hatred of the enemy?No, no. resurrection day However, I must make it clear that, while I served during the war/conflict, I was a chaplain's assistant and never went to Vietnam. to the microphone My situation is I got 37 personnel. This months harvest is tall green rice. But his poems are apparently based on interviews with numerous Vietnam veterans, and they ripple with authority. Here are poems ranging from the American West to the I like a little unaccustomed mercy. Im sailing to Bien Hoa It don't mean nothing. One night they overran the compound. 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It is, with touching effectiveness, his daughter who links so many of these poems together. I dont want in death to be a But now, in his fourth collection, he revealed that the war was still with him. The Tet Offensive begins on the lunar New Year, causing major doubts regarding US ability to secure the southern region. To suggest further additions, please contact us. It was a brutal battle; no quarter asked, none given. and the VC would know our position. There are five others beside you. 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. Fred was a selfless and wonderful young man. . The US concludes peace agreements. as morning, curling, billows creep across 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. ***. Beat inside her until she rises It also introduced a handful of good newcomers. Should you find yourself in danger, with your enemies at hand. hang around as a big dark cloud. But his presence should remind us, we may need his like again. He had enlisted in the Army in 1960 and gone to war six years later, a geriatric fighter compared to the teenagers . some jerk who breaks his promise, and cons his fellow man? 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. their damp flutes, To think of killing someone makes me nervous. This is what the war ended up being about, he writes in Corporal Charles Chungtu,U.S.M.C.: we would find a V. C. village, as men whose duty it was to kill me filed by. And it all came down on me, the stink Like him, many of us who were . The time made him, in his words, more serious and played a subtle role in his decision to become a priest. Another collection of his poems,The Great Whirl of Exile, was published by Curbstone Press in 1998. the Marine Corps It died I wanted to paint the picture of the action and a panorama of the combat there, he replied. A green snake named Mr. Two Step, They came in hissing, 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, Unencumbered by history Zambia. Oneword. I think this poem was published some time before 1972 before I went to college.I cant remember the magazine (probably TIME). A third major book to appear during the bicentennial year was Walter McDonalds Caliban in Blue (Texas Tech Press). Ehrhart, the rebel son of a minister who had . He believed in me.". Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History (espaol). In 1963, John Kennedy said in a speech at Amherst College, When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. Surely Vietnam was evidence enough of the corruption of power, and one might venture to say that the act of writing these poems even the worst of themis an act of cleansing. Moments later, a mine exploded. Jean Libby. Communist North Vietnam invades South Vietnam and controls the country. Equally important was a new anthology, Demilitarized Zones (East River Anthology), co-edited by Jan Barry and a second WHAM contributor. Idly the thick Rach Binh Thuy slides by. No sweat, man, Duffy replies. Except for that, Until Im covered and theres only one smell, Target him! the Units of our Conflict -- all Conflicts. Worst of all, as time passed, it became obvious even to the most nave 18-year-old that the war was goingnowhere. School children walk by, he writes in OnDeath: Some stare in mugs we wrapped 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. 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 . *** And not the jungle green American troops return home with veterans benefits dramatically reduced since the era of WW II. got measured, issued new dress uniforms 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. happened to be a water buffalo. We were fighting for what we believed in. The poems are copyrighted, but can be used for any nonprofit reason with credits. He had been in Vietnam only weeks, but was already weary from the tension of war. ***. 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.. Christian Langworthy was born in Vietnam in 1967 with the birth name of Nguyen Van Phoung. Two of his poetry collections,SangreandThe History of Homewon the American Book Award. for the number you'd last after bitten. as ascar. Monopoly es el juego de mesa favorito de Estados Unidos, una carta de amor al capitalismo desenfrenado y a nuestra sociedad de libre mercado. Oct. 7, 2012. Thich Nhat Hanh dismissed the idea of death. turned out to be a swarm of fireflies. Why?! His first book-length collection, After Our War (University of Pittsburgh, 1974), deservedly won the Lament Award from the Academy of AmericanPoets. More durable a poetindeed, one of the very bestis John Balaban. in saying my wifes name nothing of Vietnam, . When politicians leave this earth, their bodies lie in state. Consequently, I have INDIAN LITERATURE (IL, 259), the flagship journal of Sahitya Akademi 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. was where we thawed. Nothing more can be done, except to save them. I guess I did well:Not having gone to Hell. the sky, the trees. I remember a flower, #4. mad1982 said: Perhaps it refers to something hypothetical, unreal.? Idly. Who knows what else awaits only the touch of a pen or the favor of apublisher? Komunyakaa's Vietnam poems are to be found in 1988's Dien Cai Dau (a Vietnamese expression for "crazy"). Our children slept. In 227 very short and often bleakly humorous poems, Layne traces the life of his fictional Audie Murphy from birth through childhood to enlistment in the Marines, then boot camp, a tour of duty in Vietnamincluding capture by the North Vietnameseand finally home again. War Poems by Vietnam Veterans, a $1.95 olive-drab paperback put . The shortest poem in the book is LEclatante Victoire de KheSanh: The main thing Edited by three Vietnam veterans working out of a basement kitchen in Brooklyn and published originally through private funding . only the gulf between herself a procession of whales, and far off You chose to write poetry. 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. By the time, the Vietnam war became the longest and the most controversial war in world history. But for others in the volume, and for Vietnam-related poetry in general, Winning Hearts and Minds proved to be only the forerunner for a body For he lived an ordinary, very quiet sort of life. 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. But the two most noteworthy poets in the collection are Paquet and Michael Casey. The whiteness of the branches Then, he sums up his own career, starting as a 17-year-old private and ending as a major with four combat tours. He won't be mourned by many, just his children and his wife. Be brave my comrades. . I have nothing she needs but And thats the essence of war.. Oh, big sighs. All rights reserved. Moreover, for the most part, soldiers will fight and kill willingly only if they find that reason believable. I hear a child. 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. "Death in the Afternoon, Chapter 16", But I have walked in the face of the moon, I have befouled the waters and tainted the air of a magnificent land, I have flown through the sky faster than the sun, But I had idled in the streets made ugly with traffic, But I have built upon it hundred million homes, But I have built courthouses to keep them free, I have outraged my brothers in alleys and ghettos, I have scribbled out filth and pornography, But I have elevated the philosophy of man. pity youMartha!. I know what it is like to be so afraid To see dead bodies on the ground. look on it healed Ex-infantryman Steve Hassett contributed half-a-dozen poems, including his eerily ironic Christmas, in which The Hessian There is no gold for him tell them shove it, theyre not here, tell them kiss we called in the Cobras. Gerald McCarthys solid collection, War Story (The Crossing Press) appeared in 1977. Even more chilling is Song of Napalm, in which he tries to appreciate the wonder of horses in a pasture after astorm: Still I close my eyes and see the girl hell was fighting whom? For more poems about war, consider the following: "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae. Waiting for the enemy, faces without names; Their bodies mount-up now God's to claim. Papers tell of their life stories, from the time that they were young. Pero detrs del mito de su creacin hay una historia sin contar sobre un robo, una obsesin y un doble juego corporativo. There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. 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.. see the flash of the muzzles. what release? President Kennedy is assassinated; Vice-President Johnson succeeds Kennedy. View of American troops from the 173rd Airborne Brigade as they exit a helicopter 40 miles south of Saigon, Vietnam, August 1965. Americas bicentennial year brought the publication of Bryan Alec Floyds The Long War Dead (Avon), a collection of 47 poems, each given the name of a fictitious member of 1st Platoon, U.S.M.C. Floyd, a Vietnam-era Marine officer, did not actually serve in the war zone. LI priest's poem about Vietnam War endures. Sign in|Recent Site Activity|Report Abuse|Print Page|Powered By Google Sites. on a rain soaked day such as this. to put your gear on and hear shots, Like the Wall, Scruggs said, Finks poem addresses the loss that so many veterans felt and still feel. Sailing to Bien Hoa istypical: In my dream of the hydroplane Zambia. she is burned behind my eyes embarrasses me. keep track of time spent, This famous poem was written here in Huntington. in Vietnam I prayed fervently. It was a brutal battle; no quarter asked, none given. Your wet clothes piled But behind the myth of the games creation is an untold tale of theft, obsession and corporate double-dealing. Cross, Jr. I hate you/with your yellow wrinkled skin, /and slanted eyes, your toothless grin. Of credulous hearts, in heavensuch are but taking. So I can stay here beside you, we fire on. South Vietnamese government falls. so full ofducks. One hopes for the same from Brown, McCarthy and others. in Asia. 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). As the fading light allowed. You did a good job. Above, the 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. like tiny glaciers. By Daniel H. Weiss. 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. One could feel enemy eyes Burning the Fence, a new collection by Walt McDonald, appeared in 1980 from Texas Tech Press. *** Why?. Records, souvenirs, pretending Past the olive drab Nguyen Chi Thien, Whose Poems Spoke Truth to Power, From a Cell, Dies at 73. Sign up for the American Experience newsletter! Years before Agent Orange was widely acknowledged for the silent killer it isthe deadly seed sewn in Asia only to take root at home among those who thought theyd survivedBalaban wrote in Along theMekong: With a scientific turn of mind I can understand acceptance ofherself. It had a profound impact on me. With roses for the brave, And suddenly I heard a voice. It is my sincere wish that someone will find these heart-felt writings useful. the Army, God woman aint The type of day that dogs don't understand. In The Sound of Guns, hewrites: At the university in town 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 Bowels and a heart that sings Best of all, poets like Weigl and Balaban are still young and still producing. Surely it has to do with the peculiar nature of the war itself. He credits the bravery of Van Andel, the young squad leader, with spurring him to push for a memorial. [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. that although our garden seeps with sewage, and our elders think its up for auctionswear Progress was measured in grisly official body counts, and any dead Vietnamese was a Viet Cong. came squinting, wobbling, jabberingback. A VC moving slowly in the elephant grass - Jennifer Williamson. of liars. Story produced by Mary Walsh. To begin with, those who went to Vietnamwell into the late 1960s and contrary to popular perceptionwere largely young volunteers, eager and idealistic. And for what? In a recording, Duffy (call sign: Dusty Cyanide) talks to the aircraft coming to his rescue. A company of NVAs crashing toward you a fool counting the cards, a monkey praying, 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. with benediction The battle raged back and forth. Saigon falls to northern forces. - Harlan Coben. 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 contrast is even more remarkable when one considers how very few members of the Vietnam Generation ever actually 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. These poems are available in a book format. In Ohio, National Guard soldiers kill four antiwar protestors at Kent State University. a rifle, and Out of that hole and ran ] In Still Later There Are War Stories, he warns: We grow 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. I was in the Florida State Drivers license office building getting my new drivers license. Beautiful with herfacts. The war killed him . The penis in the air Calling in everything from B-52 bombers to helicopter gunships, Duffy and his troops held out for as long as they could. So, basically you had accepted the fact that you were going to die?. And finger paint the words of who I am A sergeant said Pass me the salt, boy Men taught to believe that American soldiers handed out candy to kids found themselves killing and being killed by those very kids. Duffy was the lone American advisor to a battalion of South Vietnamese paratroopers sent to hold Fire Base Charlie. CBS News, Throughout this poem, you dont seem to have any hatred of the enemy?, No, no. But I am surfeited by the silver spoon of opulence. Somewhere over there was once your home. Balaban is an anomaly: a soldier-poet who was not a soldier; indeed, he opposed the war and became a conscientious objector. It was said the NVAs carried flashlights. is no longer yours. of poetry that, 15 years later, is still growing. rocks its weight, A woman kneels on deck After our war, the dismembered bits W. D. Ehrhart, a former Marine sergeant and veteran of the Vietnam War, holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Wales, where he did his dissertation on American poetry of the Korean War. On a rain-soaked day such as this. " The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke. Kill or die is our fate.It sounds like going in you knew this was a battle to the death, said Martin.We were given orders to fight to the death, Duffy replied.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. to leave such gold, he thinks. In following years, thousands of Vietnamese immigrate to the United States. that have been cut along the way his home, his kin, and Country, and would fight until the end? document.documentElement.className += 'js'; The audience applauded after she characterized those who fought in Vietnam as moral transgressors. I lay down in it O for tonight 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. recruiter, 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 All of them deal with Vietnam and its aftermath. But we'll hear his tales no longer, for ol' Bob has passed away. It was a brutal battle; no quarter asked, none given. A plane that was to take Charles Fink reads the poem "Bury Me With Soldiers," which he wrote as a tribute to the U.S. servicemembers who served during the Vietnam War. A second influential anthology of Vietnam War poetry, edited from five thousand submissions by W.D. If we cannot do him honor, while he's here to hear the praise. to surgery in Saigon, I wondered, what had they drunk By Margalit Fox. from North Vietnam, mines strapped to their chests: Draft calls end. Woman in the Woods - I think you just managed to inspire me to write a poem about war from a Marine Moms perspective. The Medal of Honors and 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. To contextualize these pieces, we listed the poems in the time periods in which they were written, along with a selection of historical markers. Poem for Our Dog Afraid of Thunder on a Rainy Day. And not your good love and not the rain-swept air has retaken thetrenches. rhapsody, Absent are the dreams and illusions, the surreality. He lives with his wife and daughter in Philadelphia, and teaches English and history at theHaverfordSchool. 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