I bought StreetWise today from Roarke E Moody, the vendor I know best. Moody is a Vietnam vet, and a poet, and for the Memorial Day issue of the paper he wrote,
Naked-eyed toy soldiers take few shortcuts through hell. We all had our own piece of hell. In this mess of a war, in this distant land, it does not matter what you are fighting for…a patch of dirt, a piece of tail, war whores trapped in hell.
We were all there through the monsoons, through the doom and gloom–one and all, and all in...
Published on June 17, 2010 00:10