THE VIETNAM WAR is a ten-part, 18-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that will air on PBS in September 2017.
As She Remembers 1968
Rain falls hard
on his burned out
bunker as ashes blacken
the Agent Orange’d
rice patties.
Back home she knows
fear standing near
cornfields where deer
scatter outrunning her
daddy’s buckshot.
“He will come home to me,”
she whispers, brown eyes
blazing at the sun
crazy for news of him.
Walking home through
pregnant stalks of corn
she feels the baby stir
in her belly. Hungry
to get on with living
she cries to every God,
“Just bring him home!”
Kitty Jarman 