tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post7046169807973350251..comments2023-10-28T04:53:32.505-07:00Comments on View From The Northern Wall: The Veteran - A Red Wolf Poemchristopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-82907146226242685082014-10-15T20:23:37.963-07:002014-10-15T20:23:37.963-07:00Your question cuts me loose of the timing and now ...Your question cuts me loose of the timing and now I am floating across all the wars and conflicts. The old ones often counted coup rather than commiting to out and out war. But war was common and much more intimately bloody than is modern war. In fact, I think the post traumatic stuff is a manifestation of the modern theaters of war because the terror is now much less a part of military logistics. Almost everybody fights long distance any more, except by accident. So when a guy is stressed in the intimacy of combat it comes out of the blue these days, at least on our side. Often on theirs too of course when destruction rains down on them from machines they can't even see.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-8321027384126861372014-10-15T17:31:08.646-07:002014-10-15T17:31:08.646-07:00Interesting history and love the speculation of th...Interesting history and love the speculation of the last stanza. Wonder what the old ones would think about it all?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-1807643797791124452014-10-10T19:33:08.454-07:002014-10-10T19:33:08.454-07:00The poem has a historical storytelling flavor and ...The poem has a historical storytelling flavor and also manages to be lyrical. I appreciated the backstory and especially the song for the mournful sister bit. And I thought, wrongly, that the drunken swifts refer to the Columbia River, though that too works I think.irenehttp://orangeisafruit.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com