Tim O’Brien Response
I really wanted to be creative for this post, and I decided to attempt writing poetry, after the Poetry of Witness assignment a little light bulb in my head went off and realized that it was not a daunting of a concept as I thought.
What is the point?
The mood is dark and so are the soldiers.
Carrying baggage of equipment and shame,
Shame…brought from not bringing home fellow heroes.
Or shame from trying to avoid going.
Fighting a war of politics and gain
Leaving behind their innocence
Innocence they will never see again,
Witnessing what they did changed them forever
Coming home empty shell: but heroes none the less.
The endless marches with no purpose besides moving,
But giving them time to contemplate what they have lost.
Left to live with memories of, gore, violence and ghosts.
Still with no idea of the purpose or knowledge as to why they lost their
innocence.
Link below to the time-line and analysis of the Vietnam War.Vietnam
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