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Home from the War
By Jim Willingham
[Printer-Friendly Version] Pilot training ain't as hard as nursing school. Flew a hearse in Vietnam. Tactical airlift over a strategic bombing zone. Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry them home from the war.
Refuse duty. Hit the street. My black brother got beat by the police in Miami Beach, down to the ground. With one arm and one leg, he stood up again, tall and proud like he was before. Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
World War One flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker never knew the Blue Rider artists who died down below in the German trenches: Macke, Marc, Morgner. They died in the trenches along with their sketches and he came home from the war.
Jim Willingham
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