He heard the sound of an AK-47
and stopped to take time to think.
That was his first mistake.
The M-16s got jammed in the jungles
so sometimes they'd pick up AK's
dropped by the VC's.
He knew where the sound
was coming from, and probably
where its owner was.
But was it a VC, like he thought,
or an ally who's gun was broken?
He stopped, to think about
the weight of his decision.
He thought to himself:
This place wasn't meant
for thinking men,
and fired his weapon.
1 comment:
Alot of American fighers in the Vietnam war were kids rolled in by the draft and really had no idea what they were doing or why. Kids no younger than 17. It's sad enough to entrust our future and power to violence, let alone to put it in the hands of kids that shouldn't even belong in such a place.
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