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Not Forgotten at Vietnam

They awakened to fight another day,
In a foreign place so far away.
The grounds they fought on were not so kind,
A jungle with a wicked mind.
What eerie things lay up ahead
In this unknown land full of the dead.
Many were lost in this prison of green,
No one around to hear them scream.
What unspoken things gripped their thinking,
Never forgotten, never shrinking?
They awakened to fight a broken cause,
Never hearing their rightful applause.
Many returned to be spit on and scorned,
Their just honor unadorned.
No memorial could ever repay
The pain you felt every hellish day.
Thank you for the tears you shed,
for the proud blue, white, and bloody red.
Samantha
10th Grade
Copyright 2005
Listed 10/05/2006

Poem "recognized for creative excellence"
by School District of Lee County, Ft. Myers, FL

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