The warrior’s battles will never end
for each firefight echoes in dreams that shake the night.
Once again with sweated determination the warrior must do battle.
Countless firefights relived until awakened
by those whose deaths were only numbers on the six o’clock news.
I find this strange, those that died in the tempest of battle,
they have found peace.
While we, the survivors,
we are in hell.
– Pete “Doc” Fraser –
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From Poetry of the Vietnam War.