from the National Endowments of the Arts in honor of Veterans Day
“Battleground” by William Trowbridge
“Those nights I heard shouts from the dark
of my parents’ room, he was back down
in his foxhole, barking orders, taking fire…”
“At the Vietnam War Memorial” by Robert Dana
“…we’ve come to find
your brother’s name, etched
in the long black muster
of sixteen years of war—”
“Thanks” by Yusef Komunyakaa
“…Thanks
for the vague white flower
that pointed to the gleaming metal
reflecting how it is to be broken…”
“Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen
“Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs…”
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