Remembering the Tet Offensive As Troops Ship Out for a U.S. Attack on Iraq.(Brief Article)(Poem)

Ploughshares | December 22, 2004| | Copyright 
 
Remembering the Tet Offensive As 
Troops Ship Out for a U.S. Attack on Iraq 
 
for Roger C. Frank 
 
   A fighter jet etches ink white as sperm 
   on the stark sky while January troops deploy 
   from Camp LeJeune, just like my first husband 
   did in 1968 on his way to Viet Nam 
   to wipe the Commie Gooks off the map. 
   Before he could spell Khe Sahn, think 
   massacre, he was machine-gunned 
   then bayoneted, left to die two days 
   in a jungle valley of shimmering green bamboo 
   near the clear stream he couldn't reach 
   before the chop chop of the Medevac arrived. 
   ...

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