SEMPER FI

Semper Fi
always faithful
god
flag
country
dyin' was too good
too easy
spring...1970
hanoi hilton
MIA
POW
in country
seven-years
broken...but
never sold out
fellow americans,
called him:
baby killer
nazi
jar head
asshole
he drank-and-drugged
he used to lock-and-load
he killed his pain
physical
mental
PTSD
new terminology
used to be "shell-shock"
now he is old
a grandfather
he watches the national news
his country is being "legally" invaded
by illegals
it makes no sense to him
neither does it make sense
to build a mosque near sacred ground
did the japanese get to build a temple,
at pearl harbor?
hell no.
then he thinks of jane fonda
she really understood the war.
just like so many...
understand, the stand,
for human rights today.
yeah.
human rights.
he wonders..."where are my human rights".
he knows the war is here now.
on hallowed ground
he won't apologize
for loving the flag
for saying what's right
for not following "group-think".
they tried to brain wash him before...
in hanoi...
Semper Fi.