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Uncle Marvin (D-Day, 1944) |
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I never knew you
but my Mother said
..."he carried you fishing
on his neck
before he left,
and he really loved you."
But I was not even 4
in 1944
and I don't remember him.
then... as I walked those beaches in 1964,
... those cliffs
never told me
where my Uncle died.
The wind walked with me.
I volunteered for 'Nam'.
... and yet
Vietnam seemed to be
the war that no one cared about,
... and a war to be forgotten.
I went there anyway.
I have always wondered if Europe
remembers
what it was for Uncle Marvin.
I would have liked to have known him.
But sorrow is the way of war.
On the beaches of D Day,
Europe was born again.
... or perhaps Europe
has forgotten them.
I see Uncle Marvin
in the back of the mirror
of my mind
as time goes by.
I was a child.
It was 1944.
I heard the call of Soldiers
... somewhere on the wind. |
By
Lou J. Klaiber
Copyright 2005
Listed
December 13. 2009 |
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Lou served in Vietnam in 3 Corps Vietnam during 1965 - 1966 as a Sergeant E-5.
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