War and Peace: Four Snapshots
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
Length: 03:39
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Memories of war and dreams of peace. Four snapshots: in Bagdad and a base in Germany, Iraq war; in France, World War One; and in the clouds, at war's edge.
Offloading the Wounded
By Jeffrey C. Alfier
Read by Tina Huang
My Father's War: 107th Field Ambulance, L'Abbayette, France - 1917
By Helen Ruggieri
Read by Will Spagnola
War Clouds
By Jim Barton
Read by Annie Chang
Music: Didgeridoo by Rev Imish
The clamshell doors of a MEDEVAC jet
open slowly to the December wind.
They could be palms forever half-opened,
like some diffident window of Vermeer.
Airmen rise and unfasten a litter.
--Offloading the Wounded by Jeffrey C. Alfier
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Memories of war and dreams of peace. Four snapshots: in Bagdad and a base in Germany, Iraq war; in France, World War One; and in the clouds, at war's edge.
Offloading the Wounded
By Jeffrey C. Alfier
Read by Tina Huang
My Father's War: 107th Field Ambulance, L'Abbayette, France - 1917
By Helen Ruggieri
Read by Will Spagnola
War Clouds
By Jim Barton
Read by Annie Chang
Music: Didgeridoo by Rev Imish
The clamshell doors of a MEDEVAC jet
open slowly to the December wind.
They could be palms forever half-opened,
like some diffident window of Vermeer.
Airmen rise and unfasten a litter.
--Offloading the Wounded by Jeffrey C. Alfier
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