The Viet-Nam War



Over sixteen years, from fifty-nine to seventy-five

The war fought in Viet-Nam - took many, many lives

But in the final eight years, from sixty-seven on ...

When the fighting escalated to major proportion



Approximately two million Vietnamese were killed

And about sixty thousand Americans came to ill

Including some twenty-five hundred unaccounted

A factor keeping the tensions between us mounted



But it is significant that it took some years of search

To find a single symbolic unknown soldier to inter ...

After many years of looking, it came down to two

And the other was shipped back, as he wasn't true



- Tristram



© Christopher W. Thomas

6:37pm Memorial Day, '99