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In The Death of Combat |
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The author was wounded August 17, 1967. Quang Tri Providence of Vietnam
- Operation Beacon Gate with B. Co - 1st.Blt - 3rd Mar - 3rdMarDiv
During Vietnam, the author sustained head injures from a grenade blast
and was shot twice in a fire fight. He was pronounced clinically dead
for about three minutes (his heart stopped). One evening in 1996, he
awoke from sleep and saw himself going through the transition to death
that he had experienced.
He writes: "These are the words that came to me at that time and... I felt
that these same words must have come to many who have had the same near
death or death experience as I had that early morning on 17 Aug. '67."
In the death of combat the only light to be seen is that of the
glistening moon, and the silences of all life in the night are almost
deafening.
As the chill of ones soul cools the hot night, the feel of hell's
eternity covers one with the fear of blackness and loneliness, and the
cries and screams make no sound to those in the night of deaths life.
As life ends the death, the touch of an unknown to carry back, and awake
to life in a different light, but not to be forgotten. |
By Robert "Cody" Griffith, Vietnam
War Veteran
Copyright 1996
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July 12, 2012 |
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