Our Poet Laureate, Russ Vaughn, has updated an old favorite in light of yesterday's events:

Their Veterans' Day

Some said let you apologize

But that wouldn't do it in our eyes.

A man astride of each position

Could we believe your true contrition?

And on deaf ears your words would fall

To those whose names are on that Wall

The vindication they now accept

In settling up this long—held debt,

Is that for them we gave our best

And denied you, John, your lifelong quest.

We fought for them, fought for our own,

To make you reap what you had sown.

Listen carefully John to what we say,

November 2d was their Veterans' Day.

Russ Vaughn
2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment
101st Airborne Division
Vietnam 65—66

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