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Memoir 2 2026 A Soldiers Story

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    A Real Clothes Line

 

Remember the first night got incoming I

was runnin so hard to get to the bunker line

Been in country two weeks waiting for unit

to b assigned pullin details filling sand bags 

pickin up cigarette butts KP Guard duty You

happy to get orders 500 miles north of Saigon

We 7 guys sleepin in tent soon its dark first night

there rockets come in shaking the ground take off

runnin with my M16 sirens going off flares going off

full speed run into clothes line not the one with the wrestling

but black vinyl hollow wire clothes line the hootch maids 

hang the guys clothes its pitch black me new ran full speed

caught me by the neck threw me back bout two feet steel pot

went on way m16 went one head hit the ground bout to get

killed aint seen nobody yet but that clothes line from that day on 

slowed my roll aint runnin like that no more

 

One of my favorite poets Great Curtis Mayfield saw him in concert Colchester Conn big free outdoor concert he hung with the fans performing on the Grass When it was close for us to go home the Vietnam girls would say soul brother go back to the world boo koo soon Curtis did this song Back to the world every brother and sister

who served in Nam know and experience just what he talkin about Listen close near the end when that sweet sound of the freedom bird takes off back to the world

 

 

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