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5574. Scream Wounds: How to Kill Your First Man in War by Jimmy Pappas
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Genre: Military Poetry
Page Count: 61
Book Description: A "scream wound" is a wound from which even the most hardened combat soldier cannot help but scream from the pain. As such, it becomes a metaphor for the entire Vietnam War. It still brings us pain. Many of us, including myself, have our personal scream wounds. Mine are the friends I lost in the War. Some of that is based on feelings of guilt that I have been able to live such an interesting life while they died so young in combat.
Almost all of the poems in this book are based on the accounts I was able to glean from other veterans. Most of the works are about Vietnam, some are about experiences of veterans back in the United States, and one is about Iraq. I have tried to honor the basic truths and capture the individual details that history books often ignore. I felt I was saving stories that would be forever lost if I did not write them down.
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