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Before we get started, I offer my poem, which is a response to the eager Jingoists who want to send yet another generation of our children into the next war (Trigger Warning for those who have been in combat):
To Those Who Have Forgotten_______________Who dares call “Join with us” to me
from their ever-darkening road?Who dares urge “Send them” to me, ever-unforgetting,
even now in my nimbus of hoarfrost?To me, who held the shivering hands of a once-boy,
soul-seared and battle-deafened,Still nightmare-covered by his friend
exploding into blood drops in the air?Who dares mouth “Patriot” and “Country” to me,
after I have seen what comes home from your wars?
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Please join me now at the Museum of Ventura County