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Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts) Mon Jul 7, 2014, 11:08 PM Jul 2014

Vietnam War Eve Of Destruction

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Vietnam War Eve Of Destruction (Original Post) Xipe Totec Jul 2014 OP

Reminds me of 3 1/2 months duty I had in '69.... Hulk Jul 2014 #1

I was the first generation to miss the draft. Xipe Totec Jul 2014 #3

Wow, back in the day, as a beginning teacher, I used to teach this (along with some other recent maddiemom Jul 2014 #2

Great choice... suzanner Jul 2014 #4

Hulk

(6,699 posts)

1. Reminds me of 3 1/2 months duty I had in '69....

Reply to Xipe Totec (Original post)

Tue Jul 8, 2014, 02:52 AM

Jul 2014

"serving my country". Fortunately for ME, a land mine sent me and my radio man home alive. He was walking home, but I had another month in Japan before I was presentable to the Stateside to view. Still the same game; and the neocons are chewing at the bit to get another "good old war" started, to grind up the next generation of young, patriotic pawns.

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)

3. I was the first generation to miss the draft.

Reply to Hulk (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 8, 2014, 06:25 PM

Jul 2014

I was almost 18 when the draft ended. A few more months and my number would have been up.

We stand on opposite sides of a great societal transition.

We owe you and your brethren everything.

maddiemom

(5,106 posts)

2. Wow, back in the day, as a beginning teacher, I used to teach this (along with some other recent

Reply to Xipe Totec (Original post)

Tue Jul 8, 2014, 10:37 AM

Jul 2014

hits) as an intro to poetry. Couldn't be a more obvious meaning to interpret, and an extremely obvious rhyme scheme. My junior high kids loved it, and amazingly no parents or administrators complained.

suzanner

(590 posts)

4. Great choice...

Reply to maddiemom (Reply #2)

Tue Jul 8, 2014, 07:04 PM

Jul 2014

You sound like the kind of teacher kids remember for life. I had a few.

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