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Rosalind McGill's avatar

I’ve seen the damage at the local VFW.

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JamesDuff's avatar

Ya mean the Viet Nam Vets...I worked with 2 guys just 6 months after their tour of duty was complete, both from Colorado, came up to Oregon.....these boys/Men were traumatized..and boy they could drink like loggers bc we were interfacing with Loggers ...we sang Jerry Jeff Walker "Up gainst the Wall Red Neck Mother" 10,000 times. Damged Men...I have had 4-5 hour conversation with David big brother to my dear HS friend ....

where did daddy go ?

i am all about the Woman's movement

The great Goddes is raising

I do know Men get broken too in many ways

I do believe men are completely at a loss to manage their emotions

let alone dare show there brokeness in the light of the days

so here .....is my mini take

broken men sometimes break

their own sons

or bend them

to become just the opposite

you will know...

where did daddy go?

from WW 2

Korea

Viet Nam

the Gulf war

Iraq 1

Afghan

Iraq 2

fuk i just dont know

they came to fight for the patriarchs

patriots are they

boys come from every walk of life

boys are boys they say

pecking orders

alpha males guns, knives

sports, hobbies, passions

cars, girls, wives

one up man ships

fending for self and K rations

drinkings, and killing the next

tender moment that crash's in

boys are simple

yet complex

boys hide our sensitive sides as best we could

i am a bull, and fish solid emotionally exuberant

quiet and dark but i am just a man

bad indifferent sometimes good

i am a boy trying to being a man dance

for peace

where did my daddy go ?

he went to a dark space

un noble impossible to replace

open wounds grow

blood and water flows

one must wonder what men at war see

they come back ...who knows

what eats me

the boys leave full of flags

and self confident in training

and god & country

the men come back dark, distant...ohhh

you might see

the machine eats their souls

these wounds stuffed into

the holes

and the woman and family fight a war they never knew

or see

ohhhhh

these men may pretend to be brave

the men stand at attention

look in the mirror and shave

and inside the war makes them absent

flag waving has crushed their own soul

fighting an enemy they will never know

where did daddy go?

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Rosalind McGill's avatar

Sorry. Veterans of Foreign War . My husband was 22 years in the army, & in desert storm .

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JamesDuff's avatar

No sorry I was raised by a military man

That looked familiar but was not sure.

VFW makes perfect sense always liked

Acronyms thanks never be sorry lol

Nice to meet ya !!!

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Rosalind McGill's avatar

A pleasure, mr Duff!

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JamesDuff's avatar

A pleasure Mrs McGill or in the old days the man would the pleasure is all mine 💕🙏😊🤠🆙

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