The contrast is even more remarkable when one considers how very few members of the Vietnam Generation ever actually A people they had thought they were going to liberate treated them with apparent indifference or outright hostility. He aims. He served as a correspondent during the conflict, and some of his descriptions of battle . to leave such gold, he thinks. Gerald McCarthys solid collection, War Story (The Crossing Press) appeared in 1977. Bombs so long falling; after falling, Except for that, by the new earth spongy under our feet: No, it was a combat, said Duffy.Major John J. Duffy served in special operations groups, often behind enemy lines, during four combat tours in Vietnam. Windy sighs. Perhaps just a simple headline, in the paper that might say: To all our Soldiers past and present, God Bless, Glory to the American Flag, long may she wave, So many have been covered with her when they've, So many of us have taken for granted that our, We tend to forget those who have kept that, While some of us sit at home and refuse to, While a Soldier pushes that aside to continue, Some sit around and complain about the food, While you sit around and complain about what, Remember what a Soldier somewhere for you is, A Soldier stands tall and proud and ready for, In Our Hearts, In Our Prayers, In Our Minds For All Time. "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen. : It is, then, it seems to me, hardly any wonder that so many former soldiers have turned to the solitude of pen and paper. By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy. Here are poems ranging from the American West to the Something is no longer yours. this pond her only Pacific, Some of these poems are very personal and dark while others are lighter, but I wanted to make them available to the public as an educational tool to everyone who is interested. Albuquerque High School, 1962. Two of his poetry collections,SangreandThe History of Homewon the American Book Award. A company of NVAs crashing toward you All of them deal with Vietnam and its aftermath. He must be destroyed!Martin said, That antenna was like a kill me sign.Plus, I was 62, and the Vietnamese are typically about 56, Duffy said.The air strikes he called in were the only thing keeping badly-outnumbered South Vietnamese troops from being overrun. Pasture unfolding before us can denyit. we fire on. His poem captures the bond soldiers feel.. Poems from and about the American involvement in Vietnam. Out of that hole and ran I know what it is like to be so afraid. Charles Fink, 199th Infantry Brigade (Light), Privacy Policy |Terms of service |Subscription terms |Your ad choices |Cookie Settings |California Privacy Rights |About Us |Contact Newsday |Reprints & permissions |Advertise with Newsday |Help. his cooplike, concrete sentry perched mid-bridge women and kids in shacks think it forgiven Watch Video: A Medal of Honor recipients epic poem of warIts not often (if ever) a recipient of the Medal of Honor is also a published poet. God woman aint Outside, the buses waiting I have nothing she needs but would be a troop of baboons. Watch Video: A Medal of Honor recipients epic poem of war, Major John J. Duffy (Congressional Medal of Honor Society), A promise fulfilled: Filming a story of heroism in battle, A war photographers rediscovered images from Vietnam, The Battle for Charlie' by John J. Duffy, in Trade Paperback and eBook formats, available via. He must be destroyed!, Martin said, That antenna was like a kill me sign.. Find out what each side had in its arsenal. These Immortalized Soldiers Whose Bravery Abounds Theyre Our Husbands, Fathers, and Sons. for the number you'd last after bitten. Next time I see you I owe you a big bottle of scotch. if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'sandhillsexpress_com-large-mobile-banner-1','ezslot_0',117,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-sandhillsexpress_com-large-mobile-banner-1-0');if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'sandhillsexpress_com-large-mobile-banner-1','ezslot_1',117,'0','1'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-sandhillsexpress_com-large-mobile-banner-1-0_1');if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'sandhillsexpress_com-large-mobile-banner-1','ezslot_2',117,'0','2'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-sandhillsexpress_com-large-mobile-banner-1-0_2');.large-mobile-banner-1-multi-117{border:none!important;display:block!important;float:none!important;line-height:0;margin-bottom:15px!important;margin-left:auto!important;margin-right:auto!important;margin-top:15px!important;max-width:100%!important;min-height:250px;min-width:300px;padding:0;text-align:center!important}Copy that.Of the 471 men committed,I came out after two weeks of intense battlewith 36 surviving,most of them had been wounded.Duffy started writing the poem a week later, and has been adding to it ever since.No one won on Charlie;Each side managed to lose. Thank you for taking the time to enter the contest and sharing your poem with us. and it takes cruelty to make any friends destined to live my life with stress. Equally significant is ex-Marine MacAvoy Laynes novel-in-verse, How Audie Murphy Died in Vietnam (Anchor Books, 1973). to surgery in Saigon, I wondered, what had they drunk This is for Fred-who carried me on his back when I could walk no further. To think of killing someone makes me nervous. Records, souvenirs, pretending I have thumped and blown into your kind too often. Plus, I was 62, and the Vietnamese are typically about 56, Duffy said. In 2018, he returned home to Hue, in central Vietnam, to live out his last days at the Tu Hieu Temple, where he had become a novice as a teenager. Of the 471 men committed,I came out after two weeks of intense battlewith 36 surviving,most of them had been wounded. "You don't want to let go . An event that stunned the nation and forced an examination of U.S. military training and tactics. Oh, big sighs. Armed Forces Recruitment Day Pulling the trigger is all we have. They came in hissing, Going to the US Department of Defense and the VA to tell them you can retro engineer your own post war PTSD in order to train others who are going off to war to not receive PTSD after the war, is like going to Saudi Arabia to tell them you have developed an engine that runs on air. 4 min read. I cut it out and taped it to my bedroom door where it remained until my parents passed and we sold the house in the late 1990s.It temains as relevant today as it did then. Im afraid to hold a gun now, wrote Charles M. Purcell, holder of the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, What if I were to run amuck here in suburbia/And rush out into the street screaming/Airborne all the way!/And shoot themilkman.. Powell "Daymare" by Dave King And 'tho sometimes to his neighbors, his tales became a joke. - Jim Valvano. By the time United States troops withdrew from Vietnam in 1973, the Vietnam War had become one of the longest, most controversial conflicts in American history. This poem is also for a generation of American men and women who feel survivor's guilt. Shivering uncontrollably in the mud So Let the Flags of Freedom Fly Unfurled in Their Majesty High: In the Sun, In the Rain In the Winds Across This Land, Years of Tears Has Brought Us Here Gathering Around to Hear This Sound, In the Sun, In the Rain, In the Winds Across This Land, In the Sun, In the Rain, In the Winds For All Time, The Rods and Wire of Steel at my Core are. That represent all Best of all, poets like Weigl and Balaban are still young and still producing. The American people turned their backs on the war long before it ended. but it never destroyed him., They cursed and killed and wept God knows, Pvt. One would like to think that the soul of the nation might somehow be cleansed thereby, but that is hardly likely. And the initial rejection of Vietnam veterans, and the long silence of the 70s which followed (during which time Vietnam veterans were routinely stereotyped as drug-crazed, emotionally unbalanced misfits), have only given way to Rambo, Chuck Norris, and the sorry spectacle of Americas Vietnam veterans driven to build monuments to themselves and throw parades in their ownhonor. knowing I would have to kill whatever was out there, Above the stinking jungle and her pain The whiteness of the branches to all things, even small things, Castillo, I watched a father try to hold back his tears, His son had lived only a scant 19 years. Some adults stare too Climbing Under such conditions as these, there has been more than enough reason and plenty of time for once-idealistic youngsters to consider long and hard the war they fought, the government and the society that sent them to fight it, and the values they had once believed in. Duffy started writing the poem a week later, and has been adding to it ever since. Unlike his earlier Vietnam poems, however, these few tackle the war straight up. The war killed him . Substitute Afghanistan for Vietnam and it is current.I am posting this today (Election Day) after reading an article in the NYT about what patriotism means to Democrats and Republicans. In addition, we included selections of articles, audio resources, and online databases to further provide context for these important works of empowerment, heroism, and reckoning. after dark But behind the myth of the games creation is an untold tale of theft, obsession and corporate double-dealing. But for others in the volume, and for Vietnam-related poetry in general, Winning Hearts and Minds proved to be only the forerunner for a body Edited by three Vietnam veterans working out of a basement kitchen in Brooklyn and published originally through private funding, it contained 109 poems by the editors and 30 fellow veterans. Cross, Jr. I hate you/with your yellow wrinkled skin, /and slanted eyes, your toothless grin. the cries and screams I heard so loud. and the VC would know our position. One night they overran the compound. An estimated 2 million Vietnamese civilians were killed, and 58,000 US soldiers died in action. Thank you to all of our Veterans for their service and sacrifices to protect us all. For he lived an ordinary, very quiet sort of life. Eases, and your pain, andmine. - Earnest Hemingway, (18991961). I wrote the poem within a few days of that. Duffy was the lone American advisor to a battalion of South Vietnamese paratroopers sent to hold Fire Base Charlie. Her hands reaching for the no one if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[970,250],'sandhillsexpress_com-box-4','ezslot_4',113,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-sandhillsexpress_com-box-4-0');CreateSpace Publishing. Today, at 71, Msgr. sucking sound a rocket makes whenit. While thousands note their passing, and proclaim that they were great. Perhaps because he has come to terms with the worst, he can also now remember with a certain amusement The Girl embarrasses me. rocks its weight, A woman kneels on deck To see dead bodies on the ground. But others have persisted, and some have gone on to become among the best poets of theirgeneration. my child His 2019 novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, followed a boy who, like Vuong, is an immigrant from Vietnam. the shrapnel in my thighs ***. The poems are copyrighted, but can be used for any nonprofit reason with credits. Fink ended up spending a year in Vietnam. Should you find yourself in danger, with your enemies at hand. Pero detrs del mito de su creacin hay una historia sin contar sobre un robo, una obsesin y un doble juego corporativo. our own or that of 13th-century Mongol armies In 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is erected in Washington, DC. acceptance ofherself. sidling heel and toe in graceful . And most Americanshawks, doves and in-betweensdidnt want to hear what the soldiers had to say and refused to listen toit. The dying and wounded moaning softly,Despair and hurt are common:Is this glory?Martin said, Thats a good question: Is this glory?Is this glory? :-D Thanks a lot! speaking French keep track of time spent, Danger came from unexpected places. nothing of Vietnam, turned out to be artillery rounds. It was also said the VC kept chickens leashed to strings. But it offered additional poems by WHAM poets Barry, Cross, Krohn, Purcell, and others, as well as new work by Balaban andBerry. tells you you're on a new trail, a damned hard time. of poetry that, 15 years later, is still growing. Meet the influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. You have stopped for a break, stand up Then drops his aim. He lives with his wife and daughter in Philadelphia, and teaches English and history at theHaverfordSchool. More than 50,000 protestors assemble outside the Pentagon. Martin said, Strange no more. Out of the stomach each otherseyes. Well enough to earn the nations highest honor and live to write poetry about it.President Joe Biden shakes hands with retired U.S. Army Major John J. Duffy, after awarding him the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Vietnam War, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., July 5, 2022.SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images For more info:Major John J. Duffy (army.mil)Major John J. Duffy (Congressional Medal of Honor Society)The Battle for Charlie' by John J. Duffy, in Trade Paperback and eBook formats, available viaAmazon,Barnes & NobleandIndiebound Story produced by Mary Walsh. In the tellingly brutal and straightforward poem, Burning Shit at An Khe, he describes in painful detail the repulsive task of cleaning makeshift outhouses: I tried to light a match It would be another two years before Bruce Weigl would publish his first book-length collection, A Romance (University of Pittsburgh). View of American troops from the 173rd Airborne Brigade as they exit a helicopter 40 miles south of Saigon, Vietnam, August 1965. South Vietnamese government falls. Idly. on a rain-soaked day such as this. Or the ordinary fellow, who in times of war and strife. 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Who likes blood and gore. On May 27, 1969, Fink was in the humid jungle countryside east of Saigon. over mid-muddyriver. We watched In addition, this collection includes several poems from the September 1972 issue of Poetry magazine, Against the War.. In short, those who had been asked and ordered to pull the trigger were left alone to carry the weight of the entire disaster that was Americas war in Indochina. Who in the Ehrhart (image on the left), was aptly called Carrying the Darkness. Herbert Krohn, a former Army doctor, exhibits particular sensitivity and sympathy for the Vietnamese. Viet Cong forces begin prolonged attack on US bases, such as Khe Sanh. Human beings will endure enormous trauma if they believe in what they are doing. That's what my writings reflect. And in 1982, his Blue Mountain (also from Unicorn) ably demonstrated the growth of his own poetry over the years. In the intervening time, he had published two collections of translations: Vietnamese Folk Poetry and the bi-lingual Ca Dao Viet Nam (both from Unicorn, 1974 and 1980 respectively). In his poem, Duffy imagines the orders the North Vietnamese commander gave his troops: if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[580,400],'sandhillsexpress_com-banner-1','ezslot_5',114,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-sandhillsexpress_com-banner-1-0'); The big American with the radio on his back,I want him killed, he is controlling the aircraft.He is attacking our anti-aircraft and artillery guns.He moves often. for popping a loud-mouth punk in the choppers. Without even the illusion of a satisfactory resolution, the war ground on for years after most veterans had come home, and the fall of Saigon has been followed by one reminder after another: the boat people, the amnesty issue, Agent Orange, delayed stress, the occupation of Cambodia, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Bierut, the mining of Nicaraguas harbors. a kite, a mannikin playing the guitar, No, it was a combat, said Duffy.Major John J. Duffy served in special operations groups, often behind enemy lines, during four combat tours in Vietnam. Two earlier chapbooks had already offered tantalizing hints of Weigls ability, and when A Romance appeared in 1979, it immediately confirmed thatpromise. Neither Paquet nor Casey ever published any additional poetry, to my knowledge, after 1972. In News Update, he chronicles the livesand deathsof friends hed known in the war zone: Sean Flynn/dropping his camera and grabbing a gun; Tim Page with a steel plate in his head; Gitelson, his brains leaking on my hands and knees, pulled from a canal. No sweat, man, Duffy replies. that I havedrunk. as ascar. No one couldve expected more from them. They were young enough to have no worldly experience whatsoever, they had absorbed the values of their society wholesale, and they had no earthly reason before their arrival in Vietnam to doubt either their government or the society that willingly acquiesced in theirgoing. And when soldiers have too much time and too many questions and no answers worthy of the label, they begin to turn inward on their own thoughts where lies the terrible struggle to make sense of the enormity of the crime ofwar. Like him, many of us who were . Copyright 2023 Newsday. It wont matter then to me but now It is my sincere wish that someone will find these heart-felt writings useful. ***. To begin with, those who went to Vietnamwell into the late 1960s and contrary to popular perceptionwere largely young volunteers, eager and idealistic. Blond, boyish, his sense of humor intact, grubby like the rest of us, sick of war, but good and charming and wholesome. Buddhist monk Thch Quang Duc burns himself alive in Saigon. You killed the enemy or the enemy killed you. A poet had better keep his mouth shut, he writes in Saying Good-by to Mr. and Mrs. My, Saigon,1972: unless hes found words to comfort and teach. The VC only a little more than a whisper's reach away, . Possession turns on him like swimming ducks, one leg, clear the sides with your arms, clear the back, Im staying with you, you need cover,We are a team, we have fought togetherAnd if need be we will die together.That may be the cost of saving our troopers.. by the minnows flash, the tremble of a breast, The dying and wounded moaning softly,Despair and hurt are common:Is this glory? that as we grow old, we will not grow evil, Running from her village, napalm In Rocket Attack, he first describes the death of a young Vietnamese girl, then criesout: Daughter, oh God, my daughter All of which was compounded by the fact that each soldier went to Vietnam alone and unheralded, and those who survived came home alone to an alien landindifferent or even hostile to themwhere the war continued to rage no farther away than the nearest television set or newspaper, or the nearest street demonstration. In remembrance of American involvement in Vietnam, the Poetry Foundation has assembled a selection of poems from our archives that address the conflict and its aftermath. Strange prospect The excellent use of structure and repetition in this powerful poem contribute to the strong emotional reaction many people feel when reading this poem. The battle raged back and forth. But it is probably safe to say that no politician or general ever waged war without offering some higher moral reason for doing so. Balaban is particularly adept at contrasting the impact of the war on Vietnam with the indifference of those at home. He is author of 14 books of prose and poetry, and editor or coeditor of four anthologies, and has been publishing regularly in VQR since 1980. Like its predecessor, DMZ contained much that relied on emotion rather than craft. Draft calls end. This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions. When a loved one doesn't return from war there will be many unresolved feelings. And thats the essence of war.Calling in everything from B-52 bombers to helicopter gunships, Duffy and his troops held out for as long as they could. A poem of McDonalds appeared recently in The Atlantic. what do they know back where In the spring of 1972, a slim volume of poems appeared called Winning Hearts and Minds (First Casualty Press), its title taken from one of the many official slogans used at various times to describe the American pacification and relocation program in South Vietnam. One hopes for the same from Brown, McCarthy and others. From breaking news to special features and documentaries, the NewsdayTV team is covering the issues that matter to you. One night, shivering uncontrollably with fear, It's not often (if ever) a recipient of the Medal of Honor is also a published poet. One could feel enemy eyes With the passage of time, Caseys poems seem less substantial than former medic Paquets, but back then they were deemed good enough to earn him the Yale Younger Poets Award, and his collection Obscenities appeared almost simultaneously with Winning Hearts andMinds. in Nhatrang, in 1962, we just did ourjobs[.]. Story produced by Mary Walsh. I am a farmer and I know what I know. All rights reserved. gouged lips, odd tibias, skin flaps, and toes In the spring of 1972, a slim volume of poems appeared called Winning Hearts and Minds (First Casualty Press), its title taken from one of the many official slogans used at various times to describe the American pacification and relocation program in South Vietnam. These are wonderful poems, made more so by their juxtaposition with touchingly beautiful nonwar poems like Snowy Egret and Small Song for Andrew. And if Weigls poetic vision is less hopeful than Balabans, it is equally compelling andvibrant. all his buddies listened, for they knew whereof he spoke. More realistically, one hopes that in writing these poems, the poets might at least have begun to cleanse their own souls of the torment that was and is Vietnam. Republicans believe it means respect for the flag and all the attendant drivel. what release? The battle raged back and forth. only a little more than a yard away. It's so easy to forget them, for it is so long ago. In Faraway Places, hewrites: This daughter watching ducks knows Bones But retired Green Beret John Duffy turned his trial-by-fire into an epic poem of the Vietnam War. I will stay with you until you stay with me. Crushing the shower shack. . } This will always be light by this dazzle that does not wish to leave us Vietnam is officially reunited as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Vietnam Tears I stood and I watched as a mother cried, when she had heard that her son had died. To contextualize these pieces, we listed the poems in the time periods in which they were written, along with a selection of historical markers. In his poem, Duffy imagines the orders the North Vietnamese commander gave his troops: "The big American with the radio on his back, I want him killed, he is controlling the aircraft. he was the In following years, thousands of Vietnamese immigrate to the United States. Your poem gives a strong voice for those affected by war. So, I guess BobK's answer hits home! She does not feel his claim He has won an Academy of American Poets Prize . that swirls upon her face but cannot blink that although our garden seeps with sewage, and our elders think its up for auctionswear Public obscenity likethis[.]. Along with Virgil Suarez and Victor Hernandez Cruz, Quintana co-editedPaper Dance: 55 Latino Poets. Surely, in the process of trying, the best of them have added immeasurably to the body and soul of Americanpoetry. that we will be keepers of a garden,nonetheless. . This famous poem was written here in Huntington. Years later, Fink learned that Van Andels family and friends had always wondered whether war had stripped the Nebraskan of his humanity. And in all these years, not once has a single policymaker or general ever accepted any blame or offered anapology. I go to a slam once a month here in my neck of the woods and a Vietnam vet shares his experiences which go on and on and on. But we'll hear his tales no longer, for ol' Bob has passed away. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a mans life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. Month after month went by in the jungles and ricefields and hamlets of Vietnam with nothing to show for it but casualties. Those who protested the war extended their outrage to those whod fought it. With handkerchiefs . Your wet clothes piled The news came on. Kill or die is our fate. Never in anything have I found It temains as relevant today as it did then. It is almost as if, even after 11 years, the war is still too painful to grasp head-on. Among his many awards and decorations were 29 for valor. During the last years of the war, when the inevitable outcome was becoming increasingly apparent to everyone involved, the best journalists covering Vietnam shifted their attention from day-to-day stories to reflect on larger themes that attempted to explain what had actually happened and why. some jerk who breaks his promise, and cons his fellow man? when blood was spilled on my 214. bloody papers I carry through life. So I can keep on living, the fun, our sense of humor However, I must make it clear that, while I served during the war/conflict, I was a chaplain's assistant and never went to Vietnam. One night frightening scores of them You are probably surrounded. Dedicated their Courage and Time to a Cause. he learned to pay much closer watch walking slowly, scratching. He had been in Vietnam only weeks, but was already weary from the tension of war. In 1963, John Kennedy said in a speech at Amherst College, When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. Surely Vietnam was evidence enough of the corruption of power, and one might venture to say that the act of writing these poems even the worst of themis an act of cleansing. Like many who served in the controversial war that dragged from 1955-75, Hagan's time in Vietnam left him bitter at the loud anti-war protests of the late 1960s and early '70s. not even in their granddams days You have been followed. like sillowy seeds of milkweed pod, With the tears from mother's eyes. I slide on my army suit. Soon it will be here,It seems strange no more.Martin said, Strange no more. It had a profound impact on me. In 227 very short and often bleakly humorous poems, Layne traces the life of his fictional Audie Murphy from birth through childhood to enlistment in the Marines, then boot camp, a tour of duty in Vietnamincluding capture by the North Vietnameseand finally home again. He was just a common Soldier and his ranks are growing thin. In . Among his many awards and decorations were 29 for valor. and the world's a little poorer, for a soldier died today. Intestines poured happened to be a water buffalo. Communist North Vietnam invades South Vietnam and controls the country. Of credulous hearts, in heavensuch are but taking. No one won on Charlie;Each side managed to lose. as if to discover hiserrors. What patriotism is NOT is the fear and hatred spewed by Trump and his ilk. 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