A soldiers poem

A soldiers poem,
In July of 2005, near the end of his time in Afghanistan, Orrin Gorman McClellan wrote a bitter ode to military recruiters:

"take your pleasantries
your generalizations, good intentions,
sweet words, and half truths,
put them in a box.
drape a flag over it.
and bury it with the rest of the dead."

Orrin Gorman McClellan committed suicide this last May. The number of suicides are growing among our returning veterans, 37 out of 100 at last accounting- a huge %. We must not forget our veterans and the wars we are STILL fighting. I am sorry, his sorrow and hurt is evident from his poem.