"When a Soldier Cries the World Weeps" Poetry: Donald B. Remembers

The service men of the Viet Nam war we called called baby killers and murderers and other horrible names. It was also the time of the draft dodgers that ran across the border to Canada to get off American soil to prevent them from being drafted. As their buses pulled into their home towns they were covered with paper and if you wore your uniform you and your family was shunned like a child molester. No one wanted to hire a Viet Nam Veteran and yet these were young men fresh out of high school to get drafted and sent to fight a war they were barely old enough to understand and not even old enough to drink. Many ay young men that had problems with h law were luckier than the Viet Nam Veterans as they almost always came home, had a job when they got out housing to stabilize them and three hots and a cot in an environment that was controlled at the expense of the taxpayers and no guns going off or fellow Soldiers dying to protect us for value of the the Red, White and Blue.