My wife and I stand before the Wall.

My wife and I stand before the WALL in the brotherhood of sorry

for I cry over lost friends and she cries for the love she hold

for me for I came home alive so she could have.

My wife and I stand before the Wall as one looking at the names of friend’s

who stand in the brotherhood of death for they never came home

to there love one’s but I did.

My wife and I stand before the Wall proud to have know them

for they shall always stand high in the brotherhood of

our hearts.

My wife and I shall one day stand before the Wall with our child

so she may touch the chisel face and know the names of

boyhood friends who stand before us in the shadows.

For the shadows are all that is left for me to re-memory for I can

no longer re-memory their faces only the shadows of bygone

days of death and sorry.

By Guy Jones, a Vietnam Vet Nov 68 – Oct 69.

v Co A & HQ,43d Signal Battalion, 22d Signal Group, 1^st Signal Brigade

v Pleiku, Vietnam (MAC V compound)