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Broken Hearts country as flag
Rollin' thunder
flashing light...
penetrates the
darkest night...

Memories of
another time...
when the world
didn't rhyme...

B-29's loaded
with bombs galore...
can't lift off
with any more...

Set a heading
to Kobe Japan...
ready are we
man to man...

Fifteen hundred
miles to fly...
with explodin' flak
in the sky...

Eleven men
may return again...
another mission
to begin...

But some
will have to stay...
where their ships
fell today...

POW's are they
if there was time...
to jump away
from a burning �29...

Some couldn't jump
for they were dead...
and fell downward
as they bled...

Broken hearts
and broken homes...
received no dog tags;
not even bones...

Empty places
and hopeless faces...
forever mark the way
of airmen who died today...

War is a cruel foe
when youth she craves...
divider of life
digger of graves...
By C. Douglas Caffey
Copyright 2004
Listed March 9, 2009
Author's Note: This poem was written by the writer, who was on the Island of Kwajalein in WWII, who still sees Broken Hearts

Author's Bio:
C. Douglas Caffey is a disabled veteran of WWII. He served (1944-1946) in the 509th Composite Bomb Group, 58th Wing, Air Photo Unit, 20th Air Force, United States Army Air Force. It was the 509th who dropped the atomic bombs on Japan and did the atom bomb tests at Bikini in the Pacific. A chronic sufferer of PTSD since WWII, Doug is a former college dean. He started writing poetry several years ago and though he doesn't claim to be a poet, he does claim to write from the heart.

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