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Contributor: Gary Jacobson || Poem Categories

Who are the Heroes? country as flag
Who are the true heroes
Contending with special bravery as battles rage?
Who win the victor's wage?
Who are these youth shouldering dying's primeval age
Walking the park rife with shadows
Cast by freedom's foes
Wearing hatred enshrouded by frenzied aggression
Who built pent up feelings in animosity's passion
Chafed by despair without respite in spiritual turmoil
Who acrimoniously fume...embattled moil?

Who are the true heroes?
Is it they who show honor in sacrosanct duty
Devotion cloaked with honor naturally
Distinctively
Who roll up their sleeves to embrace freedom's enmity
Fighting tragic wrong, n'er shirking
They who answered proudly their nation's calling
Who go into the hellish maw
Innocently offering up inviolable all
Absorbing war's fateful schizophrenia
Reliving daily irascibility's mania?

Who are the true heroes?
Who willingly sacrifice themselves to save a brother
Left behind home, way of life, father...mother
Facing eminent demise at behest of fateful breath
Wielding the scepter of righteousness till sweet death
Extinction hovering in clouds battlefields over shrouding
Constantly overhead, fire and smoke about him camouflaging
Riding war's bestial ogre till the full accounting?
By Gary Jacobson
Copyright 2003
Listed June 30, 2010

About Author... In 1966-67, Gary Jacobson served with B Co 2nd/7th 1st Air Cavalry in Vietnam as a combat infantryman and is the recipient of the Purple Heart.

Gary, who resides in Idaho writes stories he hopes are never forgotten, perhaps compelled by a Vietnamese legend that says, "All poets are full of silver threads that rise inside them as the moon grows large." So Gary says he writes because "It is that these silver threads are words poking at me � I must let them out. I must! I write for my brothers who cannot bear to talk of what they've seen and to educate those who haven't the foggiest idea about the effect that the horrors of war have on boys-next-door."

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