A Soldiers Story Memoir 3 2026 LZ Hard Times

A Soldiers Story Memoir 3 2026 LZ Hard Times

A LZ is a firebase or Landing Zone

the LZ I was on was called LZ Hard Times

up around An Khe Vietnam The LZ bout ten clicks

miles in the boonies from the big base camp which was 33

square miles its about one square mile circle 125 Infantrymen

maned the perimeter with two units of Artillery men I was workin

for S2 Intelligence 24/7 underground bunker monitoring enemy movement in the area radio maps all that good stuff Had a 37

year old Black Sgt Major my boss He never wanna give me a break

go outside the wire to the river chill out on air mattress One day he finally gave me a day off Soon as I get to the river this VC throws a hand grenade in the water blowin old man in his boat out the boat I run bac to get weapon Sgt Major say yeah I bet you wanna stay here with me now

A song I liked that armed forces radio played a lot was by Creedence Clearwater Revival or CCR the song was Bad Moon Rising a song the Republ...

Dont Wanna Hear It If

Dont wanna hear nothin 

bout trump good or bad

if you did not vote

Everyone seems to thinking

the same my vote dont

matter now look what you

got for a country

confusion illussions collusion

disater disorder

so it is by action you represent

your vote

No vote no voice free will

as you know its your choice

You can lay back get high

off the funk drink that cheap

or good liquor til you drunk

but come voting time think of the

man called Trump

remember what the word trump mean

        "GOTCHA'

Curtis mayfield a great poet musician humanitarian offered

my generation this song listen to the lyrics then look in the mirror youtube has it for surer the song Is We People Who Are Darker Then Blue from the great lp Curtis

 ...

A Cup Of Joe

Every morning just gotta have

a couple of cups of Joe

My morning boost my on the go

bring u back from that sleep zone

Being my name is Joe just wakes me

up puts me on go

All came from Uncle Sam 19 yrs old

basic training up at five each morning

more dead then alive

Bring on the Joe gotta have it

dont you know

Closing with my very favorite singer from her next to last LP a song called Coffee Time by Natalie Cole

Trending

Their r very few individualist in the world today

everyone is a copy cat trender I see all them

big rim glasses everyone wearing See all these

long blond bushy pony tail extensions where is

the natural look All these follow the leader look at our country

today and the leader they voted and followed 

corrupt world for the rich dont give a damn bout 

the avg hard workin Man and Woman

Tower Of Power asked this question

in a song early 70s I repeat that question

in 2026 the song is What Is Hip by Tower Power

Comin up time to vote get out that hip trip

Bam

Bam in your face

Its me Fall Summer I

just took your place

No warning no ease on in

smash mouth let the cool begin

All last two weeks hot hot

triple digit

high ninetys u had

to deal with it

then Bam first day of Fall

calendar made the call

Bam heater jumpin on

Bam in your face you wanted me

you got me

First got home from the Army bought this record still have one of the reasons I moved and still live in the country since 1975 song called Sweet Seasons by Carole King she wrote played the piano and sang

Summer Days

Oh yeah SC that heat has hit the fan

Wont miss Summer you at all not

the one that need a sun baked tan

If nothin else summer glad

to see you go so I can play this

beautiful song by the beautiful

Angel of the night Angela Bofill a

forever favorite If U listen to the song

the sweet guitar is that of Eric Gale

RIP Angie this song from your first LP

Angie song call Summer Days love the line when she says

turn around summer is al most gone

Memoir 2 2026 A Soldiers Story

    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 da...

Writing (Repost)

My writing season on the way This poem the number 2 most viewd poem of the 700 plus I have posted

Writing just an outlet 

for me

good therapy for 

my PTSD

not out to save or

convert the world

Never use it to pursue or woo

some special woman or girl

Writing just something to

relax my mind

Controversey for controversey sake

I do decline

Sitting in my little corner

of the world

not bothering anyone what

I prefer

Like watching words and lines

coming together

Writing just a lil relaxin time

to spin a rhyme

Listening too Law of The Land Temptations Great LP titled Masterpiece

and listening to my favorite combo group boss with the funk boss with the ballads bad with the RNB Them Isley guys listening to Livin in the life from the LP Go For Your Guns Isley Brothers

New Notebook Tablet (Pen n Paper Kind)

Done went and bought a 2026

Fall/Winter writing tablet

Muse and I again gettin together

with this writing Hobby habit

Not quite Fall yet but startin to

reach for that blanket early morning

More words for me to pull out the air

Muse pokes me during this time

always knows what he she it is doing

Get into writing deep when it is cold

heater jumpin on and off cold dark early outside

it does somethin to the Soul like get to writing

got your bills straight medications in order

time to flow

its writing time your present goal

Sports on TV cold outside warm inside

music always a going 

Writing nursing that mind just

for a short time

Was listening to Poetry Man by Phoebe Snow while writing this Queen Latifa did it much later lil more jazzy a really good singer her first CD both rea...

Bootzilla

Got this Bootzilla thrilla of 

a story to tell ya

Reinjured an old archilles tendon

injury right now goin on 7 months of

limpin hurtin misery

Such an event cant b kept

Walkin in Raiders flip flops 

the ones with all the toes stickin

 out from the wide strap

walked into the base of a standin

vacume cleaner flip flop turned under

the sole pinning my foot against the base

of the vacum while violently twisting my

foot to the point about to b thrown

rupturing tendon sprained the whole foot

upper and bottom ankle sprain

Did the exray all good nothin broke dilocated

but not mri

Just got the boot two weeks ago

Oh that heavy ball and chain

Bootzilla things will never b the same

for sure I cant b draggin u around all day

just cant bro just dont work that way

This whole episode just insane