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For DC Corporal, D Company, 41st Infantry, Operation Desert Storm
By Dave Connolly
[Printer-Friendly Version] Look; it doesn't matter, Dave, if the war lasted four years like my old man's or four days like yours.
The Beast is in you now and will live and breathe as long as you do, sometimes full-blown in your head, its breath, foul with flash and flesh, addling your senses.
And the people, friends and enemies alike, will once again have lungs and limbs shredded, lose heads and hearts and hands. Their blood and brains will once again mist the bunkers and the fighting holes and the cabins of ACAVs and still they won't stay dead.
And you'll wake and shake as we all do, wondering if for you the war will ever end.
Dave Connolly
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