“Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire,
Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles.”
—Wilfred Owen, 1917.
“I saw that beautiful barbed wire going up. Beautiful sight.”
—Donald Trump, 2018.
#ArmisticeDay
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117100404790375036
on this #VeteransDay #ArmisticeDay i share with you my baby brother’s last dying wish:
❝ DON'T LET OUR KIDS JOIN ❞
and by join, he meant the US military.
he wasn't even in combat. he was part of the munitions and cleanup crews, exposed to deadly toxins AFTER the war. he died of what his oncologists called OPERATION DESERT STORM CANCERS. not one, not two but different systemic cancers that are still, slowly killing those veterans.
Frank was my Puerto Rican twin.
may he rest in power.