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Ehrhart has been called "the dean of Vietnam war poetry." Donald Anderson, editor of War, Literature & the Arts , said Ehrhart's Vietnam–Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir , is "the best single, unadorned, gut-felt telling of one American's route into and out of America's longest war."
Much of his poetry deals with his time spent in Korea during the war. Pusan Liberty is a first person account of the life of a heroin dealer in Pusan , South Korea . And without laying claim is a short and shocking poem about the indifference with which the American forces treated killing.
He enlisted with the Marine Corps just after graduating from high school. He was a member of the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines. He served in Vietnam for 11 months and seventeen days before being permanently disabled by his third wound at the battle of Con Thien in November 1967. He was medically retired as a corporal in 1969. [1]
"Our Hitch in Hell" is a ballad by American poet Frank Bernard Camp, originally published as one of 49 [1] ballads in a 1917 collection entitled American Soldier Ballads, that went on to inspire multiple variants among American law enforcement and military, either as The Final Inspection, the Soldier's Prayer (or Poem), the Policeman's Prayer ...
The "Marines' Hymn" is the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps, introduced by the first director of the USMC Band, Francesco Maria Scala. Its music originates from an 1867 work by Jacques Offenbach with the lyrics added by an anonymous author at an unknown time in the following years.
Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War. This is a partial list of authors known to have composed war poetry . Pre-1500
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He was a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. [1] His poems and letters from Vietnam, during the Vietnam War, were included in the acclaimed novel, The Stones of Summer by Dow Mossman, published by Bobbs-Merrill in 1972 and republished by Barnes & Noble in 2003. In 2002, Guenther appeared in the documentary film Stone Reader by Mark Moskowitz.