The Chin Comm Hand Grenade, Part 2

The Chin Comm Hand Grenade, Part 2

Another takeaway for me in my poem "The Chin Comm Hand Grenade" is how easy it was for the soldier to mail a grenade home from Vietnam. Granted the grenade was not active, but it was still a grenade. Fortunately, it is much more difficult to do that today.

When I was in Vietnam in 1970, I heard stories about soldiers mailing home their M-16s. They would take it apart and mail it home in pieces.

I never knew of anyone who actually mailed a gun home. Mostly I just heard a lot of talk. Rumors have a life of their own. When they get repeated enough, they become real. And I believe M-16s were probably mailed home by soldiers.

Here is the link to the poem in the journal Uppagus:

https://uppagus.com/poems/pappas-gren...

Here is the link to my book Scream Wounds containing the poem:

https://www.amazon.com/Scream-Wounds-...