Christina
INDEX OF MY WAR/VETERAN RELATED WRITINGS
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- 1,000 Lives
- 1,000 Yard Stare
- 1918
- 1986 (The Other MIA Son)
- 2009: From Mother to Child
- 24 Hours From Hell to Home
- A $20 Girl
- A Defiling of the Dead
- A Few Words for Memorial Day
- A Great Poet
- A Letter to My Country
- A Memo from God
- A Mother’s Eyes
- A Photograph of the Photographer
- A Poem for Matt Maupin
- A Poem for My Daughter-In-Law
- A POW’s Christmas List
- A Purely Personal Observation (For Everyone to Read)
- A Room of Shoes
- A Salute to the 761st Tank Battalion
- A Small Town Cemetery
- A Soldier on the Bus
- A Time for War, A Time for Peace
- A View From the Window
- A War of Gentlemen in the Desert
- Abbreviations
- Abommination in the Balkans
- About Us (For the Sanctuary Group)
- Absence
- Adeste Fidelis
- Alcohol Bath (For Raine and the Nurses)
- Alix’s Tribute
- All for the Road, the Burma Road
- All the Little Flags
- Among the Rubble
- An Ode to Lincoln
- An Unknown Place
- … And Blue Moon Saw Him Home
- And Her Name Was Blue Whirlwind
- Angelic Comfort
- Anzac Day, 2002 (A Response)
- April
- April – The End
- April (When God Washed the World)
- Arielle
- Arlington’s Sacred Ground
- Army Inventory
- Army Mom: An Interview
- Ashamed
- Baby Lift
- Bad News
- Bandages of Foam
- Banished to the Bunker
- Basic Training
- Beaches
- Beauty Bound
- Before, During, and After
- Behind the Lines
- Beyond The Yellow Ribbons
- Birds and Barbed Wire
- Black Boots on White Sand
- Blanket of Snow
- Blood on the Moon
- Boots
- Brass Bands and Parades
- Cal
- Callow
- Camp
- Canadian Nam Vets
- Caskets
- Caskets at Tan Son Nhut
- Casualties of War
- Cathy’s Courage
- Change of Command (For Michael)
- Choreography of Pain
- Close Encounters of the Huey Kind
- Cold
- Come To Me
- Contemplating Christmas
- Contemplation
- Conversation at The Wall (For SuzyQ)
- Coping Mechanisms
- Dad’s Dreams
- Damp Fear and Duffle Bags
- Dan’s Tears
- Darkness (A Ballad of Bricks, Barbed Wire, and Butterflies)
- David’s Thousand Yard Stare
- Dear Dad – 1
- Dear Dad – 2
- Dear e-John
- Dear God
- Dear Sir Knight
- December the 6th
- Declaration of War
- Diana’s Bunker
- Dick and Jane
- Disposable Soldiers
- Divorce
- Don’t Let Them See
- Door Knobs
- Drowning Out the Mortars
- Duct Tape and Freedom Fries
- Dunkirk Baby
- Falling Brass/Blackhawk Down
- Fame
- Fierce Warriors
- First Frost
- First Haircut
- Flag Flutters and Drapes
- For John (Who Did Come Home)
- For Mark
- For the Mothers of the Dead
- Forgotten Veterans
- From Mother to Son
- Hand in Hand
- Hands Are Not For Hitting
- He Said… She Said…
- Heat Exhaustion
- Heroes
- Heroes (A Veterans’ Day Wish)
- Hiding
- His Buddy’s Face
- His Death
- Holocaust
- Hootch Maid
- Hypocrisy
- I Am… A Female Prisoner of War
- I Am… A Fence of Wire
- I Am A Hero Too
- I Am… A Soldier's Heart
- II Am… Heartache
- I Am Missing You, Today
- I Am… Sadness
- I Am… Soldiers’ Mothers’ Cries
- I Am… The ArmyMom
- I Am… The End
- I Am… The Sniper
- I Am… War
- I Am… Your Canteen
- I Am… Your Flag
- I Am… Your Recruiter
- II Am… Your Tattoo
- I Believe
- I Did Not Die
- Identity (The In-Another-Country Vietnam Nurse)
- If Only…
- Ignorance is Bliss
- I’m Off To Fight
- In Brief
- In Conclusion
- In Consideration
- In Fallujah and Tikrit
- In Memory of Bradley Beard
- In Memory Of Matt Maupin
- In Response to Pain
- In the Argonne Forest
- In the Shadow of the Mosque
- In the Spring
- Indochine
- It’s Winter – Let’s Do Some Waterboarding
- Ladies and Gentlemen…
- Leaving for the Front
- Lest We Forget
- Life Springs Eternal
- Lost In Cambodia
- Lucifer
- Mama, Mama, Can’t You See??
- Mayaguez Madness
- Medic and Nurse…
- Memorial Day – May 1998
- Memory Boxes
- Men Wanted for the Army
- M.I.A.
- Minaret Minuet
- Missing and Forgotten
- Mother Earth (For the Missing)
- Mother Earth In Labor
- Mothers and Soldiers
- Mothers of Soldiers
- Mothers of Sons
- Mourning In Baghdad
- Music of War
- Musing About Men
- My Backpack is Ready
- My Brother
- My Dad
- My Daddy is a POW
- My Enemy
- My Father’s Knife
- My Gift to My Country
- My Imaginary POW
- My In-Country
- My Lance Corporal
- My Mailbox and Me
- My Opinion
- My Reasons Why…
- My Response
- My Soldier
- My Vietnam Connection
- Naïveté
- Nature and War
- Never Again
- Night Demon (PTSD)
- “No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy”
- No Big Thing
- No Complaints
- No One Died Alone
- No Vietnam for Michael
- No Viet Nam for Michael, but…
- Not Until…
- Not Yet Notified
- Occision
- Off To War…
- Old Men
- On Leave
- On Main Street
- On Recruiting
- On the Liberation of Dachau (An a Thought About Other POWs)
- On the Phone, On the Floor
- On the Stairs
- One
- One Child Is…
- One Day To Go
- One Small Consolation
- One Strange Day
- Only One
- Our Demons
- Our Sons and Daughters
- Random Memories
- Reality Check (Military Marriages)
- Really, Saddam
- Recreated…
- Red Blossoms (or War’s Bouquet)
- Red Dust
- Reflections On Reflections
- Remains
- Remember Rwanda
- Repressed
- Rubbings
- Safe Haven’s Heroes
- Scars
- Seaction 60
- Send Me To Iraq
- Shell Shock
- Silence… Is
- Silent Cadence
- Silver Girls and Sleigh Bells
- Sister to Brother – On Going to War
- Sleep Sweet, My Son
- Small Beings
- Somalia, 1994 (For Michael)
- Some Thoughts on Taciturnity
- Some Thoughts Regarding the Female Prisoner of War
- Some Wounds Aren’t Seen
- Sometime Tomorrow
- Somewhere
- Somewhere in England
- Soon
- Sore Subject
- Sorrow
- Sorrow (How I Might Feel)
- Springtime in Auschwitz
- Strange Fascination (The Unknown)
- Stranger
- Stop Loss
- Sunlight
- Sunset in Iraq
- Swansea, Cornwall, The Highlands
- T-Shirt Patriots (A Response)
- Taking Stock
- Ten Days and a Wake Up
- Thanksgiving Again
- Thanksgiving Prayer
- The 54th Massachusetts
- The Angel of Ðiên Biên Phú
- The Angel of Flanders
- The Argument
- The Assembly Line/Conveyor Belt of War
- The Bamboo Door
- The Beat Goes On…
- The Big Picture
- The Book
- The Boy
- The Broken Flute
- The Cab Driver
- The Children of a Warring World
- The Christmas Truce
- The Collection
- The Day After Veterans’ Day
- The Day of Infamy
- The Deadliest Day
- The Diggers
- The Empty Bunk
- The End
- The Final Mission
- The Flight
- The Flight Nurse
- The Force of the Blow
- The Forgotten
- The Future of Our Children
- The Garage Sale
- The Gathering
- The Happy Ending
- The Homecoming
- The Interview
- The Jewess and the Pope
- The Many and the Few
- The Mascot
- The Medal
- The Medicine Woman
- The Nation’s Hoop is Broken – Wounded Knee
- The Night Before
- The Phone Booth
- The Poetry of Air
- The Portrait Poetess
- The POW/MIA Homecoming
- The Praying Hands
- The Question
- The Reality of War
- The Recruiters’ Lament
- The Regimental Cat
- The Returning
- The Silver Bracelet
- The “Someone” Poems
- The Sudanese Tsunami
- The Suitcase and the Duffle Bag
- The Survivor
- The Tattered Star
- The Teacher
- The Thorn In His Side
- The Unit Pin
- The Vietnam Weather Girl
- The Viking Funeral
- The Violet Hour (Pink Paper and Evening Showers)
- The Waiting
- The Way Things Sometimes Are (A Response)
- The Wheelchair Dancer
- The White Wall
- The Young Men of My Life
- These Old Hands
- They…
- They Say…
- This 4th of July
- This War
- Three Brothers
- Three Solemn Soldiers
- Three’s In!!!
- ‘Til My Heart Is Bone Dry
- Time, The Enemy
- Time-Tracers
- Tired
- To Finally Cry…
- Today
- Today (For Rod)
- Toy Soldiers
- Trench Hands
- Tributes
- True Inspiration
- Turning the Turret
- ‘Twas a Civil War
- Twilight
- Veterans and Their Children
- Veterans Day, 1996 (For Michael)
- Veterans Day, 2003
- Veterans Day, 2007
- Vietnam
- Vietnam
- Vietnam Separation
- Vietnamese Child
- Vignette
- Violet Dream
- Waiting
- War
- War and Peace
- War and Peace
- War Ponies
- War Wounded
- War’s Aftermath
- We Three
- Welcome Back
- What If…
- What If They Gave a War…
- What Price War?
- When
- When Blue Stars Turn to Gold
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home…
- While You Were Away
- White Wall
- Who Are You?
- Why Am I So Sad Today?
- Winged Prayer
- Winning Hearts and Minds
- Women Who Served
- Words
- Wounded: Then and Now
- WWI Wounded
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