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					| We took them 
 with us
 
 into the places of fire
 
 ... and yet
 we remember them
 
 Boys
 
 afraid
 
 now silent
 and deep
 
 dead
 
 in the far forest
 of forever
 
 The place where poets die.
 
 We write their lives
 and die again
 and again
 
 and hold them.
 
 Welcome Home Woody!
 
 listen
 to the lost guitars
 
 ... and hoist your dream
 to the remnant dreams
 of a sad sky.
 
 We put our sad hands together
 
 over there.
 
 I loved them
 
 and they are the rainbow
 that I dream.
 
 All of them!
 
 My Soldiers
 My Hopes
 My America
 
 ... and so it goes.
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					| By 
					Lou J. Klaiber Copyright 2004
 Listed November 23, 2009
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					Lou served in Vietnam in 3 Corps Vietnam during 1965 - 1966 as a Sergeant E-5.
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