Day 43 PISC -1967 – Tanka 44

“Going ‘Unk'”

I’ve missed Sharpshooter

but managed a ‘Toilet Seat.’

Bunkie does not ‘qual.’

Years later in Vietnam I

I find him in Force Recon

“Day 13 PISC – 1967 Tanka # 10”

“Mister Military Science!”

“Day 1,136 RVN”

Larry Sirmons’ grin

tagged me right off the bat:

and he saw me first!

My ‘bunkie’ our only ‘unk’

at the PI rifle range!

“Day 12(3) PISC – 1967 Tanka # 9”

“Day 1,135 – RVN”

“Larry Sirmons”

Saw PI ‘Bunkie”

at the Freedom Hill PX.

Our only ‘Unk’ Force Recon!

He tells me of ‘Meat Grinder’

that was ‘Tet’ of ‘Sixty-Eight!