I saw a photograph of a 70
year old Vietnamese grandmother
I saw a photograph
of a 70 year old Vietnamese
grandmother
transporting 600 pounds
of military supplies
by using a bicycle
without rubber for the tires,
with 300 pounds
somehow balanced on each side
of the handlebars.
The soldiers needed
the supplies
and grandma was willing
to risk terrible hardship,
and possible death
to see that the soldiers
got the guns, food,
ammunition,
and medical supplies
that they needed.
What I took from this was
that if a 70 year old woman
is willing to transport
600 pounds of
ANYTHING,
much less bombs, grenades,
rifles,
ammunition, food, medical
supplies…
through a dense suffocating
jungle,
while thousands of bombs fall
from the sky,
trying to kill her,
then the message is clear,
she is telling you,
GET OUT!
Get the FUCK OUT!!
Get the FUCK OUT RIGHT NOW…
We should have listened to
her.
58,000 (of us) dead
1.5 million (of them) dead
if you add in,
and why wouldn’t you,
Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia…
that number rises to 3.5
million.
150,000 US wounded,
1,600 MIA….
Many scars live on the
inside.
In our nightmares.
Some say there are still men
over there.
I don’t know the answer to
that question.
But if it’s true, these men
would be
70 years old now,
and would have to have
survived
more than 40 years of
brutality
and torture.
It’s just too much.
How does that make you feel?
