WELCOME … HOME FROM WAR by jo_dis
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WELCOME … HOME FROM WAR
VETERANS
You did what you contracted for. You did
Your duty just like I did when I was
Still innocent to dream that tyrannies
Should not exist to torture time. But you
Did more than battle, bomb and maim. You fought
For every woman’s right to be a person; not
The slave to dogmas set in stone, the rights
Of children just to go to school to earn
The bounties Earth can lend to joy and love.
VETERANS
So now you’re heroes wounded, some bereft
Of limbs with memories of comrades left
Behind in graves … some scarred inside for life.
It’s easy for hypocrisy that gave
No blood nor time to offer shallow “THANKS”.
You have a larger duty now. Remind
All those who beat their chests and waved
A flag for politics or profits, “You
Forgot to raise the one real question … WHY?”
jo_dis
2010
Comments (6)
neles-e
... As a young man - WHY? Does not come up Until ONE, Finds/Discovers Themselves THERE! WHY? Is too late a question, by then. _____ *Viet Nam - 1970 .
auntietk
When I come up on the question of war, I invariably leave the question no wiser than before. There are so many tendrils, so many points of view and sides to the question that it boggles the mind.
beachzz
The eternal question--I wish there was a simple answer. Thought provoking, and poignant words.
Chipka
I once heard a guy say that the reasons for war were as numerous as human beings on the face of the planet. He went on to say that the reasons to avoid war were as numerous as human beings on the planet. Excellent point, especially since the implication carried in his tone of voice indicated, undoubtedly, that every human being on the planet deserved the opposite of death and destruction that war brings! I look at the issue of war, and I sometimes see a certain logic behind certain wars--especially if such wars were fought simply to end atrocities committed by those who'd continue to commit them, were war not waged against them; but I also see wars that seem to indicate just how far we have yet to go in the process of becoming civilized. Your piece encapsulates that.
wysiwig
"After all, this is the guy who tried to kill my dad." George W. Bush, 09-27-2002 and "Iraq holds more than 112 billion barrels of oil - the world's second largest proven reserves." US Energy Information Administration (EIA and Because young men and women are immortal and miserable, greedy old men and women hate youth. But we can't dwell on these truths. After all, we have another war to plan.
intro
Well said! But it is not the soldier's failing. For "Why?" is neither in the soldier's lexicon, nor is it his option. The blame falls on me and many like me who did not ask "Why?" loudly enough. I've been asking that question since 1968; but it's not about me. After all, so far "Why?" just isn't getting heard. We must all ask more loudly!