Saturday, August 9, 2014

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall: A Visit




Bobby Sloan

The name jumps out

Not Robert
Not Rob
Not even Bob

Bobby

Still just a kid
A goofy teenager

Dead

One of thousands
and thousands
and thousands

Shipped off

Then

Mangled
Shredded
Destroyed

Bobby Sloan
Dead Bobby Sloan

Dead

For nothing

A name on black granite

Dead

Nothingness.



I hate war.




©Conni Cartlidge, 2014



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