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I'm a Vietnam veteran who served at more than one fire base with the 1st
Infantry. The poem mirrors actual nights I have experienced, right down to
the baby sleeping in the room with my wife and me. It is surprisely
healing to find this "flashback" so beautifully and frightenly expressed. I
feel a kinship to those veterans of my great grandparents' era. I no
longer feel quite so alone. Bless you Walt Whitman.
Bill Smoke from United States