Doomsday

Doomsday

                                                   

~When Doomsday comes I want to be

with my lover next to me~

~So to hold her tight and say goodbye

to comport her in our demise~

~The horrors are of which to come

in Hell on earth will we succumb~

~Earthquakes Hellwinds Tsunamis too

setting afire tearing our world in two~

~Death destruction end of life to be

those knowing God praying on knees~

~Rapturing of those believers to Heaven

leaving sinners behind all unforgiven~

~I’ll take my lover within my grasp

and hold her as tight in ever last ~

~When we’re taken we’ll go together

as in life in after will be forever~

~We’ll enter God’s Kingdom hand in hand

before our Lord together we’ll stand~

~For those the Sinners all left behind

no peace in Hell are they to find~

~Forewarned by God so long ago

Apocalypse our world was foretold~ 

~Fire and Brimstone awaiting the wicked

never ending pain and suffering explicit~

 ~Retrieve your soul and say your prayers

Doomsday is coming you must prepare~

~Time is short it will be soon

the world is destined to meet its doom~

Duke Sherman

A Soldier's Life

A Soldier's Life

One life, has he to live

For his country, he will give

A soldier’s life

Is so full of strife

His job, never done

Even when, the war is won

He fights, to keep you free

Even, from the enemies, you don’t see

His weapon, by his side

So far, he strides

At times, so tired

His only desire

A moments rest

So he, can do his best

He’s America’s fighting man

And, he does proudly stand

For, the Red, White, and Blue

To America, he stays true

He’ll shed his blood, for thee

To keep you free

Many have died

For America’s pride

Many more will

For, it is kill, or be killed

The price of peace, is paid in war

For this, the soldier will live through horror

So, when tonight you pray

Ask God, safe may the soldier stay

Make his life, a little better,

Send him goods, or just a letter

Thank him, for all he’s done

Say to him, well done, for us

You’ve hit a home-run

When, he returns home

Remember this poem

I wrote it, from my soul

On me, the war took it’s toll

A hero’s welcome, I didn’t recieve

In our time, the war, they couldn’t concieve

They treated us, like dirt

Our hearts, and minds this did hurt

We went through hell

Many of my brothers fell

For our duty was, to fight

A good fight

With all our might

Some who came home, went insane

Many died, was it in vane?

So treat them right

When done, is their fight

They will need you

To be true

All the help you give

A better life, they will live

Sgt Duke Sherman

G Troop, 2/11 ACR

Vietnam Veteran

Black Horse Soldiers

My Year In Vietnam

My Year In Vietnam

 

On April 8th 1971,

we landed in Vietnam!

A Base called Cam Ranh Bay,

the sun was really hot that day!

Mortars falling all around,

Sarge yelling: “Hit the ground”!

never before so afraid in my life,

the beginning of a year of strife!

I was assigned to the 11th Cav,

the best Unit the Army had! 

Next 2 days was orientation,

Only qualming our fearing sensations!

3 days later I was in Cu Chi,

Hell of an Easter it would be!

We were loaded on Choppers to the Bush,

on arrival off we were pushed!

So hot without cover for your head,

our brains would fry and we’d be dead!

Mosquitoes as big as Dragon Flies,

another way that we could die!

Tanker stew for supper that night,

for desert we had a Firefight!

By morning the fighting did subside,

surprisingly nobody died!

Ambush Patrol the next night,

this time we started the Firefight!

Body count of 11 enemy dead,

the ground was painted red!

Spent 5 more days in the field,

and made it without being killed!

Back to the Rear for a few days,

again to the Field I was on my way! 

I’ll never in my life forget my first kill,

the thought alone made me ill!

I still have many nightmares of that man,

I relive that moment time after time again!

I’ll never forget the Nam’s mud,

stunk just like rotten blood!

It rained so much for days at a time,

made it worse to be on the front line!

I lost many friends over that 1 year,

and lived through horrifying fear!

But when it came time to rotate home,

when I arrived I felt so alone!

My own people shunned away from me,

as if I had some sort of disease!

No Hero’s welcome did we receive,

for the enemy they bereaved!

They spat on us and called us names,

for murder of children we were blamed!

These 40 years after the war,

I still experience it’s Horror!

I sleep very little at night,

mostly staying awake until Daylight!

I startle easily from the sounds around,

sometimes still I’ll hit the ground!

I find myself conversing with friends dead,

thinking somethings wrong with my head!

My body no longer in good shape,

sometimes wishing my life God to take!

But I’d go back to war today,

and die for the USA!

Sgt Duke Sherman

G-Troop,2/11 ACR

Black Horse Soldier

Vietnam Veteran

1971-1972

PTSD

My Year In Vietnam

My Year In Vietnam

 

On April 8th 1971,

we landed in Vietnam!

A Base called Cam Ranh Bay,

the sun was really hot that day!

Mortars falling all around,

Sarge yelling: “Hit the ground”!

never before so afraid in my life,

the beginning of a year of strife!

I was assigned to the 11th Cav,

the best Unit the Army had! 

Next 2 days was orientation,

Only qualming our fearing sensations!

3 days later I was in Cu Chi,

Hell of an Easter it would be!

We were loaded on Choppers to the Bush,

on arrival off we were pushed!

So hot without cover for your head,

our brains would fry and we’d be dead!

Mosquitoes as big as Dragon Flies,

another way that we could die!

Tanker stew for supper that night,

for desert we had a Firefight!

By morning the fighting did subside,

surprisingly nobody died!

Ambush Patrol the next night,

this time we started the Firefight!

Body count of 11 enemy dead,

the ground was painted red!

Spent 5 more days in the field,

and made it without being killed!

Back to the Rear for a few days,

again to the Field I was on my way! 

I’ll never in my life forget my first kill,

the thought alone made me ill!

I still have many nightmares of that man,

I relive that moment time after time again!

I’ll never forget the Nam’s mud,

stunk just like rotten blood!

It rained so much for days at a time,

made it worse to be on the front line!

I lost many friends over that 1 year,

and lived through horrifying fear!

But when it came time to rotate home,

when I arrived I felt so alone!

My own people shunned away from me,

as if I had some sort of disease!

No Hero’s welcome did we receive,

for the enemy they bereaved!

They spat on us and called us names,

for murder of children we were blamed!

These 40 years after the war,

I still experience it’s Horror!

I sleep very little at night,

mostly staying awake until Daylight!

I startle easily from the sounds around,

sometimes still I’ll hit the ground!

I find myself conversing with friends dead,

thinking somethings wrong with my head!

My body no longer in good shape,

sometimes wishing my life God to take!

But I’d go back to war today,

and die for the USA!

Sgt Duke Sherman

G-Troop,2/11 ACR

Black Horse Soldier

Vietnam Veteran

1971-1972

PTSD

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MIA Facts Site by Joe Schlatter Links on this page Purpose of this site Table of Contents and What's New Breaking News Purpose of this site This site is published to provide facts about  the issue of Americans who remain "missing in action" (MIA) from the Vietnam War.  At the conclusion of the Vietnam War,  2,583 Americans did not return.  A vast mythology has built up around what really happened to these individuals.   Misinformation, pseudo-history, and deliberate fabrication are  rampant.  As a result, myths are regularly proclaimed to be fact.  This site destroys those myths. The Myths:  Not all US POWs were released by their captors at the end of the Vietnam War. The U.S. government knew that all POWs were not released. U.S. POWs remain in captivity today. There is a conspiracy within the U. S. government to hide the continued imprisonment of Americans and, whenever the truth emerges, it is debunked. The U.S. government is doing nothing to account for or recover missing men.  The Facts:  All U.S. POWs captured during the Vietnam War were released, either at Operation Homecoming (spring, 1973) or earlier.  The only men captured and not released are 113 who died in captivity; their identities and the circumstances of their deaths are known; some of their remains have been recovered/returned.. No U. S. prisoners of war have been abandoned by the U. S. government. No U.S POWs remained in captivity after the conclusion of Operation Homecoming.  There is no conspiracy within the U. S. government to conceal the abandonment of prisoners of war (who were not abandoned in the first place).  No U.S. POWs from Indochina were taken to the Soviet Union, China, or any other third country. The U.S. government has been -- since well before the end of the Vietnam War -- exerting all possible efforts to recover or account for missing men.   That effort continues  today and is unprecedented in the history of warfare. Those who promote these false claims have produced a vast array of half-truth, untruth, hearsay, unsubstantiated claims, personal attacks, and mythology.   The accumulated effect of years of nonsense has been exactly what one would expect:  The big lie has been accepted as truth in some quarters. How many Americans are "missing" in Southeast Asia? At the end of Operation Homecoming in the Spring of 1973, 2,646 Americans did not return from Southeast Asia -- they were "unaccounted for."  Since then,  957 have been "accounted for" by (1) recovering and identifying remains; (2) return of a small number of individuals after Operation Homecoming; (3) recovering the remains of several individuals as a group whose remains are not separately identifiable. Currently, 1,689 Americans are "unaccounted for" in Southeast Asia: Vietnam:   1,296 North Vietnam : 476 South Vietnam : 820 Laos :  328 Cambodia  :  58 China (territorial waters)  :  7 These figures were last updated on :  May 30, 2011 Figures include 468 at sea or overwater losses Click here for details on the number of missing. Click here to see a chart that lists the missing by service and by country of loss.