Bri Edwards War Poems

The long envelope was addressed to Mr. Robert K. Hess.
One corner was torn away.....and it lacked a return address.
I’d just received it that day, with a batch of others;
it was a light mail-day; some days the volume smothers.
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I woke up and before I got out of bed I thought...
about words of a poem which I'd not yet wrought.
I once heard about something 'God' had 'wrought',
but THAT is not what, by tonight, I hope I've brought
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In the seemingly-"calm" years in Japan, Aki was born in '49.
Her mother & her father had two sons by that post-war time.
At a "nearby shrine", Aki saw white-clad veterans ring bells as they begged,
some missing "parts of their face", and/or limb(s)e.g. arm(s)or leg(s) .
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Whether to punish or just end the war...
in the Pacific, the U.S.A. did destroy....
much of what the city had been before.
It was one monumental military ploy.
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My high school friend [he lives in Hawaii] texted he's in Pearl Harbor today.
There is a memorial there to the Japanese attack which sent US on our way....
…into the War, as a full-fledged participant. We'd been helping U.K. already.
But the Brits had been suffering and dying while the U.S. was holding steady..
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On page 684 of Josepth Heller's (Large Type) novel Catch-22,
I found 'dumfounded' [sic], a typo, of which I've noticed so few.
Dumbfound is a verb with these definitions: Surprise, Confound, Shock, Startle, Stun, Stupefy, & also...ASTOUND!
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