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Once again from the embattled past,
More brothers
have been returned at last,
Recovered from their foreign
beds,
To rest in honor at home instead.
So many
more still remain behind;
Though yet alive in loving
minds,
They remain lost to the yearning arms,
Of those
who wish they'd returned unharmed.
Since that desire
can never be,
God grant this Nation will finally see,
On some soon, long-awaited day,
Her last �Nam son come
home to stay.
So many offered all there was to give,
Still, families pray that some yet live.
If they do, God
sustain those men,
And please, for us all, let it come to
an end. |
By Thurman P. Woodfork
Copyright 2003
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January 16, 2011 |
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About
Author...
Thurman P. Woodfork (Woody) spent his
Air Force career as a radar repairman in places as disparate as
Biloxi, Mississippi; Cut Bank, Montana; Tin City, Alaska; Rosas,
Spain and Tay Ninh, Vietnam. In Vietnam, he was assigned to
Detachment 7 of the 619th Tactical Control Squadron, a Forward Air
Command Post located on Trai Trang Sup. Trang Sup was an Army
Special Forces camp situated about fifty miles northwest of Saigon
in Tay Ninh province, close to the Cambodian border.
After Vietnam, Woody remained in the Air Force for nine more years.
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