War Story - Veterans Day 2007

Brother Davey wanted a souvenir
To send back home to Oxnard,
A Snoopy air cargo plane flew in circles overhead
Dropping flares that lit us up,
We watched them drop
Suspended in the air on a three foot parachute,
When they burned out
The parachute dropped gently to the ground,
Brother Davey wanted one real bad,
He broke the perimeter line
Just as Snoopy dropped another miniature sun,
Lighting him up as he ran
Faster and faster
Past the souvenir
Turning back toward us as we watched
Puffs of dust track his path
Coming closer to the look of fear on his face,
He fell twenty feet from the bunker
As the flare burned out and the night went dark again
In a place called Kontum.