I remember when I was young
most of my friends seemed to
have photos of the same guy
an older brother standing next
to a sanitary '55 who was now
over in Vietnam but would
soon be coming back from a
free-fire zone to the Twilight
Zone so that when I got drafted
myself in '68 during Tet I thought
what a crock of shit this is all for
nothing while I dummied up at
the L.A. Induction Center and
after one year was granted a
4-F status which was actually
harder to do than it sounds and
a way longer story but I covered
my ass and that is the point I
wouldn't be here now if I would
have went to their jack off war I
am sure of that and each year
on this day when I hear the
stories of honor on the TV news I
still feel the same way with no
guilt at all what you did for your
country may have been arguably
groundless but what I did for
myself was a fucking necessity