“Grandpa that looks silly”
She said looking at my wall
A baseball cap was hanging there
With a dozen flags in all
Little pins of memories
Upon that field of blue
Flags of many nations
Every shape and hue
In the middle emblazoned
The words “Vietnam Vet”
She asked me what that was,
What those two words meant
I said they meant a lifetime
Spent in just four years
A lifetime full of learning
And yet, one full of tears
She asked me to explain to her
The meaning of each pin
To tell her of the history
Of each country I’d been in
The island of Guam was my first stop
On the way to getting old.
The place where I lost my best friend
A pain as yet untold
The Philippines was the leadoff
On the way to war
A place where I became a man
In ways I couldn’t ignore
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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