training for weeks in the louisana swamps
live gun fire, live grenades
dividing up in teams
one side the americans, the other gooks
recreating in vivid detail the horrors of Vietnam
designed to turn our fighting men into tigers
turning my dad into a mental case
breaking instead of making him
Uncle Sam picking up the tab decades later
when it was too late
when the damage had been done
after his mind and soul
had already been destroyed
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