Sunday, August 29, 2010

MACHINES OF WAR


How could we have lost


the war with machines


That ruled the land


and sky

The vietcong, vietminh
and the NVA
Had nothing but
a reason for to die

We had 3 tanks on patrol

they had hootched up with

us the night before

The next morning they started

their engines

there was a mighty roar
They traversed their


turrets knocking trees down


making a terrible din


With so much noise and


lack of discipline


we just had to win

We escorted the tanks
onto the hard baked padi
fields and started looking
for a large enemy cache
The exact location we
didn't know only that
it was by the padi field
next to a well worn track
We walked all morning

till mid afternoon

sitting ducks we had been

all the way

We met the Aussies and

they took over and

walked just a 100 yards

that day

Thursday, July 29, 2010


The enemy had seen
us coming and had
prepared his ambush well
When the ambush broke
two tanks went down six
soldiers dead
They had walked straight
into hell