A Double Agent
A DOUBLE AGENT
November 13, 2017
Nathaniel R. Winters
Veteran’s day now over and gone.
I must admit I get a little nervous,
when people thank me for my service.
It’s hard to get beyond my part of Vietnam.
I have to say I feel some guilt—about
serving in a war that was built—on lies.
Just how do I respond?
Thought I was done when I left the ship.
Didn’t know Agent Orange would later awake,
some forty years later to make me shake.
Appears my body and conscience won’t let me—
give that war the slip.
November 13, 2017
Nathaniel R. Winters
Veteran’s day now over and gone.
I must admit I get a little nervous,
when people thank me for my service.
It’s hard to get beyond my part of Vietnam.
I have to say I feel some guilt—about
serving in a war that was built—on lies.
Just how do I respond?
Thought I was done when I left the ship.
Didn’t know Agent Orange would later awake,
some forty years later to make me shake.
Appears my body and conscience won’t let me—
give that war the slip.
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It is not quite a memoir but a unique blend of
non-fictional prose, poetry and even some fiction that parallels reality.
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