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Home from the War

By Jim Willingham

Pilot training ain't as hard as nursing school.
Flew a hearse in Vietnam.
Tactical airlift over a strategic bombing zone.
Swing low, sweet chariot,
coming for to carry them
home from the war.

Refuse duty. Hit the street.
My black brother got beat
by the police in Miami Beach,
down to the ground.
With one arm and one leg,
he stood up again,
tall and proud like he was before.
Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

World War One flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker
never knew the Blue Rider artists who died
down below in the German trenches:
Macke, Marc, Morgner.
They died in the trenches
along with their sketches
and he came home from the war.

Jim Willingham