War

James Thomas Fletcher enlisted in the United States Army on Saint Patrick's Day, 1969. He was an M-60 machine gunner in Vietnam.
Revised and greatly expanded from the first edition.
Fletcher's books of poetry all contain poems that touch on war to some degree, from the Trojan War through the World Wars to Vietnam and beyond. Those poems hint at psychic wounds, at displaced lives, at Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and at the helplessness of survivors. Most of these poems deal more directly with the author's military service in Vietnam.