Anonymous ID: b49264 March 6, 2018, 7:38 a.m. No.567284   🗄️.is đź”—kun

We owe the Vietnam Veterans, MIA & POWs a parade. And they all need to be brought home. This is also why we can't say his name. He's fought them being brought home. He denies their existence. Hiding the truth.

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Q !UW.yye1fxo 03/06/18 (Tue) 02:04:41 071c71 No.564638

11-11-18

A parade that will never be forgotten.

Ask yourself, why?

God bless our brave men & women in uniform.

We will never forget.

Q

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No Ticker-Tape Parade

by Gary Jacobson © December 2004

 

For that little southeast Asian charade

For that fiercest of games we played

They gave no welcome-home parade

Fighting for freedom…far and away in Vietnam

Knee deep in mud, blood and fear

Fear that’s lasted many a bloody year.

 

There was no ticker-tape parade, or such

No hurrahs…no cookies…no punch

Not so much as a half-hearted cheer

For surviving hell our most excruciating year.

Though we didn’t ask for much…

By a grateful nation we wanted only to be heard

Wanted folks to hear our tales of war’s absurd.

 

We had so bloody much hurt to get off our chest

For devotion to duty honored with our country’s best

Just wanting to be recognized

For boyish youth in cruel war sacrificed

But America was just too weary of war

To welcome back boyhood soldiers war bore.

 

Men sorely staggered by war’s bloody insanity

Face now a bleak destiny

Futures beset with demonic fear’s depravity

I guess that’s why folks back here couldn’t see

How young value systems were twisted for eternity

How on young boys was impressed war’s barbarity

Giving rise to upheavals witnessed in war’s inhumanity.

 

So embarrassed, folks back home gave no parade,

No welcome home accolade

For warriors wounded in body and spirit

Soldiers disillusioned, lied to, desolate…

Men laid low by moral depravity’s greatest hit

Were turned away while countrymen on us spit.

 

Folks back home called us every conceivable name

For erstwhile young princes held such contemptuous shame

Calling us depraved baby killers, castigated with blame.

We’d so much to talk about of where we did roam

But found the only ones welcoming our arrival home

Were our mothers…and beastly traumatic stress syndrome.

 

Seeing the war daily on television made

Vietnam a condemned charade

People just too uncomfortable to honor with a parade

Returning warriors with souls burned-out

Who’d seen too much, no doubt

Waving the flag, all hale to their glory shout

 

Vietnam veterans buried “issues” down extra deep

Deep down in the dank where scary demons yet creep

Regurgitating violence that plumb our soul’s great depths

Forevermore haunted by comrades-in-arms' deaths

Recurring memories of war’s hot fiery breath

Is it any wonder, vets now walk…so unafraid of death?

 

Parades are reserved for conquering heroes, glories to flaunt

Not for those whom Nam’s deep, dank jungles still haunt.

Not for those with compounded fears from a foreign land abused

With dread inlaid by vagaries of a non-caring world confused

Our fears earned fighting for home, freedom, beloved land

Great horrors, our people, did not even try to understand.

 

Beloved countrymen did not, would not, could not hear

Would not try their best to comfort a fellow man’s harrowing fear

By a nation we loved, unceremoniously denied

Promises not kept by a country we with all our hearts loved,

Bled for…died

For honor given, our country gave dishonor…

 

Yet Vietnam veterans still dream of the ticker-tape parade

Dreams still blow in the wind of a welcome home fusillade

For that war of a surety won by the blade

Lost only by politician’s bumbling charade

Our sacrifice in honor deprecated

Enslaving promises forever subjugated…decimated…trampled

 

That parade that should have been…

But never was…our nation’s great sin…

 

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