Withdrawal



On this day in nineteen seventy-three

Nixon pulled our troops completely free

From any further obligation to protect

The life of South Viet-Nam (so suspect)



For after twenty years of fighting

It became clear we had no sighting

To an end to all of the aggression

As there was never a suspension



Even when a truce was called

We were always, always, fooled

And so the war became a sham

As the major loser was Viet-Nam

  

- Tristram



© Christopher W. Thomas

9:11am Friday, Jan. 15th, 1999