The U.S. military leaders shouted war, in those fateful years in "sixty-four"... The communists must be stopped in Nam, or the world will be damned... So the government feared, then marched beside ignorance, towards an invisible enemy, as if it could catch the stars... Uncle Sam played God, then lost the shirt off his back, now time has passed, and Vietnam still laughs... by Mark E. Temme (Minstrel Poet) Dorrance & Company/1979. "Postdate comment(s)" by Mr. Temme: "At this time, during the war (Vietnam War) I felt as if i had been born several thousand years to soon, humanity i found (as a whole) was arrogant, abrasive and savage...and then 9-11 happened in 2001, a few years later the Madrid train bombings, then the subway train bombings in London...and later the Mumbai terror attacks in India, authored in Pakistan by Islamic extremists, the extremists kin to a evil virus attacking humanity, all these further violent occurences, confirmed my beliefs..." In a speech while visiting "Buchenwald" a Nazi concentration camp in Germany on June 5, 2009 President Barack Obama stated, "the lesson for the modern world is vigilance against (evil), against subjugation of the weak and against the (cruelty) in ourselves..."
View Mr. Temme's verse "Swifter Higher Stronger" a classic, http://mountathosgreece.blogspot.com/
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