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I lieu of this author having a "quiet patch" (with new writing)I have pulled out an historic type, my reaction to an event poem I wrote in 1994. I hope you like it. View table of contents...
Submitted: Apr 19, 2008 Reads: 60 Comments: 10 Likes: 6
Tragedy of "friendly fire"
Twenty-six people killed
Mistaken identification
Friendly blood is spilled
Clinton expressed regrets
As all America paled
Two helicopters shot down
No heroes hailed
What of "enemy fire"
Countless numbers killed
Correct identification
More blood is spilled?
No expressed regrets
As loved ones paled
Helicopters shot down
Many heroes hailed
Is fire ever friendly?
Misdirected all our woes?
Expressed regrets ironic?
When human nature is the foe?
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Yes I remember it well and this expresses the sentiments of many I would guess.
Posted: Apr 19, 2008
I love this poem. Having many family and friends over
there fighting the war in Iraq!
Posted: Apr 20, 2008
Very powerful and moving.
I have a friend driving an APC in Iraq and worry about him a lot.
Although I do not approve of the war I support the soliders brave enough to go out and fight it.
There is an endless cycle of violence and destruction in the human nature and no fire can ever be described as "Friendly"
Support the soliders who also pray for peace.
Peace
Boneman
Posted: Apr 21, 2008
Wonderful passion.
Posted: Apr 22, 2008
SUPERB.......what else can i say
Posted: Apr 22, 2008
Very nice one piece !
Posted: Apr 27, 2008
It reminded me of the terrorism in India....so sad....What kind of a world we r handing over our next generation to live in??
Posted: May 2, 2008
Ha, the irony of friendly fire, as you say can any fire be friendly? Sometimes war is a necessary evil, and sometimes there’s just no reason or need for it. And of course there r so many innocent victims in war. In its own way this is a beautiful poem which highlights for me the brutality and sheer craziness of war.
Posted: May 20, 2008
great write with so much passion and focus on the idiocies of government. I applaud this poem with a thousand angry fists. Friendly fire is the same as enemy fire except for one thing. the enemy knows what they are doing!
Posted: May 29, 2008
I loved it. Nicely done poem, thanks for bringing it back.
Having a cousin (godfather) killed by "Friendly Fire" in Vietnam on September 1, 1971 it touched a personal cord. At the young age of seven I wondered why they called it friendly fire (like the verse in the Guns and Roses song...what so civil about war?)
I remember that day the blackhawks went down in northern Iraq. Operation Provide Comfort, there's irony.
Like one of your readers said (support or non-support of the war) Support the Troops.
We have new uniform shirts at the fire department for Fridays (red) in support of the troops.
Thanks again. Ted
Posted: Jun 28, 2008
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