by Andrew Totten | Aug 12, 2011 | Poetry
I went to war in Vietnam which wasn’t my idea the army never asked for my advice I slogged on through the jungles there and watched some soldiers die out country where the farmers grow their rice The months went by like in a horrid dream of blood and death and...
by Andrew Totten | Aug 12, 2011 | Poetry
What if we had a war and no one showed up What a wonderful war that would be We’d have no one shooting or setting land mines And you’d act just as though you were free We’d never have tanks running wild through our towns Or have airplanes patrolling...
by Andrew Totten | Aug 12, 2011 | Poetry
Civilians get hurt and sometimes even killed but that is always the fortunes of war The new casualty list is now being filled and we hope there will not be much more This conflict should have been done with by now yet it still lingers on day by day We can’t see the...
by Andrew Totten | Aug 12, 2011 | Poetry
My son is coming home today he’s been away so long when he left here to go away We knew that he was strong He told us he was leaving soon his girlfriend had to cry the bus took him away at noon and we just said goodbye A military man so fine so able and so tall...
by Andrew Totten | Aug 12, 2011 | Poetry
You fight, you kill, and you succeed in living one more day you indicate that you are strong, though who can ever say that you are all that you can be with this great price to pay The killing fields are someones home and families are there but are they innocents or...
