If you are able, save for them a place inside of you
and save one backward glance when you are leaving
for the places they can no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say you loved them,
though you may or may not have always.
Take what they have taught you with
their dying and keep it with your own.
And in that time when men decide and
feel safe to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace those
gentle heroes you left behind.
Major Michael Davis O'Donnell January 1970Dak To, Vietnam.
Listed as KIA February 7, 1978
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