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Brothers Mine |
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Brothers, brothers, where'd you go?
Off to heaven and
left me below
Full of sorrow unexpressed,
Alone and
grieving, so bereft.
Though I often feel you near
I
wish so much you were really here.
I miss the comradeship
we shared,
The crazy things we sometimes dared.
There's a yearning in my soul
Where you once made it
whole...
And some guilt that I still live
While you gave
all there is to give.
But, surely as the sun brings dawn,
While I breathe, your memory lives on.
Search the world;
you'll never find
A truer memorial than my mind. |
By Thurman P. Woodfork
Copyright 2006
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January 14, 2011 |
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Author's Note: For Bob Drury ~ BlueGhost Two-Zero
Troop F, 8th Cavalry (BlueGhost) Vietnam
May �69 � December �70
About
Author...
Thurman P. Woodfork (Woody) spent his
Air Force career as a radar repairman in places as disparate as
Biloxi, Mississippi; Cut Bank, Montana; Tin City, Alaska; Rosas,
Spain and Tay Ninh, Vietnam. In Vietnam, he was assigned to
Detachment 7 of the 619th Tactical Control Squadron, a Forward Air
Command Post located on Trai Trang Sup. Trang Sup was an Army
Special Forces camp situated about fifty miles northwest of Saigon
in Tay Ninh province, close to the Cambodian border.
After Vietnam, Woody remained in the Air Force for nine more years.
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