In battle there was a unique opportunity to be close to your spiritual self. A man is never closer to the core than when his life may be taken. We have a whole generation of men and women who lived through a deeply spiritual time. I challenge the American people to ask us what we know in our souls from this dark journey. Reminds me of my father telling me 20 years later he never really planned to beat the shit out of me.
Old men are bastards.
They act like bastards most of your life and before they die they tell you they're sorry. Abraham started it when he took his boy up the mountain. Then he made up some crap about God, and let the boy go. Thanks old man. This is a poem I planned never to write.