What toll extracted
When you have seen grief on mothers’ faces
Wearing buttons with sons’ pictures that look like you
Waves of death and rows of white head stones
Carried caskets varying in weight
Knowing that remaining portions of recovered bodies differ
Depending on how much is left after being blown apart by IEDs
Drilled into your head to have your buddy’s back at all
times
But you don’t reenlist when your buddy does
To not be there when he is killed on a bridge in Afghanistan
While you are safe at home
Go to his funeral
Leave with these thoughts
And then your cork pops.
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| November 17, 2010 |
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