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In the Shade of Orange |
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In the Sixties, our troops were sent to a foreign land.
My brothers and I went off with a wave of our hand.
We
were all vowing to be the defending band,
the protectors
making a great freedom stand.
It became a long, drawn
hideous war game,
the one needing defending having my
name.
Thinking the cards had been stacked,
for
vigilance, not one of us lacked.
What we were
fighting for, you must see,
were the very lives of my
brothers and me.
Yes, we went to Nam, and took a mighty
stand,
poured our brothers blood into a foreign land.
Searching through leafless jungles;
Hearing in the
distance, the rumbles
Of those unseen overhead planes
that sprayed the chemical rains.
Through the hills
and rice paddies
and the blazing napalmed trees
ah,
interesting what hindsight sees,
and it sure does not
please me!
Home, decades later, that's where we be;
still watching out for my brothers, plus me,
just
fighting to survive in this land of the free.
Gonna live forever... if Agent Orange lets me. |
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By Faye Sizemore
Copyright 2003
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September 25, 2011 |
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About
Author...
Faye Sizemore makes her home in the beautiful foothills of South Carolina with Grant, the love of her life, as well as three dogs, two cats, two parakeets and four nanny goats. Grant is a Vietnam Veteran having served with the US Marines in 1968-69 and is, of course, Faye's muse. Faye is deeply interested in Veterans' Affairs and Veterans' Causes. She is very proud of Grant and her poetry is an off-shoot of that pride.
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