Dear Sweetheart
Letter from the DMZ |
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It's Sunday but you wouldn't know it, here.
It's
about noon and I'm laying on my bunk
Writing to you.
My squad doesn't have any duty today
but we can't leave
the guard post.
We have plenty to do up here.
There is
a Monopoly Game
but I can't find a single pair of dice.
There is a deck of 48 playing cards
A baseball, bat, and
two gloves
but it's 10 degrees below zero
and nobody
wants to go outside
At about 4:30 I've got to go
Man
the .50 while the sun sets
Then I get to come back to my
bunk
Wish I were with you
And fall asleep.
Well
Sweetheart lunch just arrived
I gotta go.
Your
Soldier on the DMZ |
By Mark I. Kirkmeyer
Copyright 2004
Listed
August 15, 2012 |
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About
Author...
Mark Kirkmeyer served as a Light Weapons/Medical Specialist in the U.S. Army (1983-88), the U.S. Army Reserve (1988-1992), and the California National Guard (1992-1995). He is Gulf War Veteran (1991) and served in Korea (1986-87).It is illegal to
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