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Question: "The Men of Spring" !.!.!. RIP (tribute to Marines I knew) Can you relate!?
"The Men of Spring"

Midnight at Paris Island,
met by drill sergeants screaming threats!.
we marched through the gates to hell;
humid walls cover us in sweat!.

Eight weeks of punishing training
and we become the few, the proud,
brothers unafraid to challenge death
heading toward war riding on a cloud!.

I remember the men of spring,
young soldiers outfitted in green;
raw inexperienced and lean,
with plans and hopes and dreams!.

Forty years since that time they passed
and I know where they have all gone
Seventy names on a Washington wall
they were the Marines of Viet Nam

If summer, autumn and winter
were theirs I wonder who they would become
To their mothers, fathers, sisters
they're Marines that never came home!.


note: Seventy two of us were in that platoon; only
two survived!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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This is compelling and poignant!. The story has a depth of emotion and power I have rarely read!. Perhaps it gets that power from the expression of your personal experience, from the fact that it speaks the tragic truth of your experience!. It takes courage to share an experience like this!. You have my appreciation!. Thank you!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

A wonderfully written tribute!. I can only began to fathom but cannot completely relate as I have been fortunate enough to have never lost any companions or family members to hell!. This piece is as close as I hope to ever get to that horrible experience!. I thank you sir for being one of the few who keep the rest of us safe!. My father, uncles, and grandfathers would, I'm sure, be brought to tears by this!. Well done!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

This definitely had to be emotional to pen!. My compliments!. Take a look at the last stanza, the rest of the poem deserves a stronger close in my opinion!. Something like: "though they went to war as Marines, they came home as sons and memories, only springtime memories!.!.!." Again, my compliments!.

Edit: the last sounds good!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

This is a very beautiful hear felt poem, fortunately I have never had a loss! My son is home now from the Marines (which I am very proud of) lives in Atlanta Ga!.

I am sorry for you and the loss of your platoon, what a horrible thing to have to go through!! War is a horrible thing, wish there was a different way of accomplishing issues that doesn't involve people dying !
Cheers!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

As the Last Post is sounded
we think of all of our friends!.
Buddies; their knell sounded,
at peace with their dead friends!.

A wonderful tribute to all of the fallen, who have passed on to a place where there is no war!. May all of us remember those who fought so that others might live in peace!.

RobertWww@QuestionHome@Com

My son was in the Marine Corps and I will send him a link to this poem!. Thank you for your sacrifices for all of us, and for such a loving tribute to your brothers who paid the ultimate price!.
May they rest in peace!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

And it continues!. What is it with men and war!.!.!.

"The Men of Spring," a poetic, imaginative title--men who died in the "springtime" of their lives!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I went to boot in San Diego, on the Navy side of the fence!. We could hear the DI's yelling, "You want to go over there and drink Coca Cola with those asholes!"Www@QuestionHome@Com

A star for you because I answered the previous post!.
Have you seen my most recent!?Www@QuestionHome@Com