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Forty Years

How do you do justice to the memory?
You don't, but you try.
Some photos and poems and snippets from your brothers.
I thought just taking a deep breath and...Hell, just taking a deep breath for those of your brothers who no longer can -- who have not taken a deep breath in 40 long years -- would be a good tribute too.

To borrow from Charles Weyant's poignant poem below -- those who can't take those deep breaths have slipped over the edge to Eternity.

Photos Here


THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, SO HELP ME GOD. - AMEN"

In the heat of that blood-bath battle-
when the most desperate savagery of man was let loose;
with adrenalin charged blood pounding in our veins,
we stood at the edge of Eternity -
never more alive, never closer to death!

And as the brutal carnage reigned-
no quarter would be asked and none given!
It was fight to survive or die-
and IT WAS the "moment of truth"!

And all those who learned the truth
to all those questions -
took their answers to the grave - Amen!

To those who know the truth - the "Rangers" of Charlie Company - 2nd Battalion of the 16th Infantry ("Rangers"), who died April 11, 1966 on Operation Abilene in the battle near Courtenay Plantation: and to those of us who survived!

"Ready Now -Rangers"
Charles "Hawk " Weyant

This poem is from Charles' new book
AN ODYSSEY IN BROKEN RHYTHMS AND RAGGED LINES -Page -#122.

The Hawk 40 years later





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The Great Hall

There will be a Great Hall in the Afterlife
Where all true warriors meet
To tell in thunderous voices tales
Of their victories over the defeat

Tales of dogfights, hand-to-hand
Of battles won at sea
By skill, by will, by guts and by God
As shuch is meant to be

Then flyboys, grunts, and sailors
Great warriors one and all
As one will stand and salute the heart
Of the PJ's who saved us all

Than you PJ's for doing what you did.

Trash

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