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| TodayI had a good cry! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Today I got a chance to talk to a fellow Vietnam combat Marine. A Marine I don't even remember saying goodbye to so long long ago. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Today I made a phone call to talk to my past at long last. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| It all started with an Email to me from out of the lost past. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| My heart was not ready as I said hi to one who I could not forget. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| As we talked it was just like we've never parted so long ago with regret. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| We talk about our times in a land so far away in our hell. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| We talk about when we got home and how we were now as we dwell. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Later that day I started to cry, as for so long I never knew his faith. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| My cry was a good one, most were not, but this cry was well worth the wait. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| So much to cover and so little time, like how we were doing now. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| How were we handing the memories of so long ago and are now. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| As we said goodbye looking forward to our next hour together. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| We knew this short time could never cover all we had to share. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| As I cried because so many of those faces back then had no end. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Today I cried knowing I was getting back a so long lost friend. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This is dedicated to Roger who was with me in Vietnam on Forward Observation Team 4 Ist battalion 12th Marines 1965/66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chaplain Howard Flexer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| May 18, 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||