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The Last Flight of the Virgin Soldier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Jerry Kahn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Circling forever through the dulled grey skies of Viet Nam\u2019s Monsoon Season<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Green Skinned Birds of Death Fed upon the Blood of Enemy Soldiers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below Black Clad Figures Running along a rice paddy dike as if the devil himself were near<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A flurry of words on the intercom: “Enemy with weapons at 10 o\u2019clock” “got em” “fire”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only eighteen but today I must kill<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel my finger squeeze the trigger as I swing the gun around (as if watching myself)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the merry go round of death begins<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brass wrapped hell rains down to kill the first of many<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two, three, four hundred rounds leap out and a body crumbles like a broken doll in a pool of blood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the survivor still running toward a hooch and still I fire<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rockets now join in exploding through walls, roofs and trees like lightening thundering through the skies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The firing stops<\/p>\n\n\n\n

quiet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The smoke clears<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not a word is spoken<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Movement below<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once more my body tenses, my finger curls around the trigger . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rocket sight down and system armed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside the hooch a women sits cradling her child in her arm while the other hangs limp and bloody by her side<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking up, staring, staring at me<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The intercom shatters the silence “These things happen in war”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we break orbit and flee the scene to be welcomed into the Brotherhood of Death<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No longer the Virgin Soldier<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright, Jerry Kahn, All Rights Reserved<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trivial Pursuit or The Children’s Hour<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Jerry Kahn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh there once was a war that was played with a score and John Q Public would watch it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their favorite show to watch other folks go at Six O\u2019clock in the evening<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh we did try to please those brave camera men as we tried our best to amuse em<\/p>\n\n\n\n

but they never staid round when the glad bags came down though we did hope the score it would please em<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh the sponsors knew as the coaches did too that the scores they kept were uneven<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and the fans got so bored with nonsensical scores that the threatened the network with leaving<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So they canceled the show and let all of us go back to the towns and the cities<\/p>\n\n\n\n

as everyone knows with unpopular shows the networks just had to please em<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those faces they knew that starred long ago they hope no more to be seeing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

but directors it seems have started new team\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh I hope there\u2019s no reruns this season<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright, Jerry Kahn, All Rights Reserved<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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