Showing posts with label Viet-Nam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Viet-Nam. Show all posts
Monday, January 13, 2025

Stand-To for Night Patrol - short poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Stand-To for Night Patrol     The Americans were said to believe th...
Sunday, July 7, 2024

It Wasn't the Fourth of July - poem

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   It Wasn’t the Fourth of July        That we may wander o’er this bloody field      To book our de...
Saturday, July 4, 2020

Veterans Drinking Coffee at the Angkor Wat Happy Doughnut Shop on the Fourth of July - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Veterans Drinking Coffee at the Angkor Wat Happy Doughnut Shop on the Four...
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Monday, May 28, 2018

When We Were Sailors - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com When We Were Sailors To the tune of Detroit Diesels When we were sailors we seldom thought about ...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

"Have You Seen Ken Burns' Latest Television Show?" - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com "Have You Seen Ken Burns’ Latest Television Show?" No, I was in the play. I didn’t like it...
Thursday, July 6, 2017

The Bishop of DaNang - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The Bishop of DaNang In Grateful Memory: Pierre Marie Pham Ngoc Chi,14 May 1909 – 21 January 1988 ...
Monday, March 31, 2014

Hey, Nice Little Suitcase You Got Here. Hate to See Anything Happen to It.

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Hey, Nice Little Suitcase You Got Here.   Hate to See Anything Happen to It. ...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Peter, Paul, and Mary Reconsidered

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Peter, Paul, and Mary Reconsidered In a re-sale shop in Jasper, Texas y’r ‘umble scrivener found a CD...
Monday, December 2, 2013

The Sky to Moc Hoa

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Sky to Moc Hoa The sky to Moc Hoa is hazily blue, Layered between Heaven and heat. The damp Rots eve...
Saturday, April 6, 2013

Russians in Moc Hoa

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I read lots of Russian lit (in translation, of course) while in Viet-Nam Mack Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com Russians in Moc Hoa ...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Christmas Among the Sandbags

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Christmas Among the Sandbags An old Navy buddy telephoned me for Christmas, and we marched down memory grinder ...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

The Second-Hand Thousand-Yard Stare

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Mack Hall The Second-Hand Thousand-Yard Stare or The Doggerels of War Dedicated to the Liars and The Saps Who Believe Them Tell me ‘bout th...
Sunday, May 3, 2009

The Sky to Moc Hoa

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Mack Hall The Sky to Moc Hoa The sky to Moc Hoa is hazily blue, Layered between heat and Heaven. The damp Rots even the air with the menace ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Russians in Moc Hoa

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I read lots of Russian lit (in translation, of course) while in Viet-Nam Mack Hall Russians in Moc Hoa I understood poor, young Raskolnikov ...