Thank you so much for posting that very moving poem.
Is Barbara Fensch the author?
Working on that ... I'll let you know - (shameless good thread bump)! ;-)
Hello (Tunehead54),
Please do not apologize for contacting me. I am happy to help you and I thank you in advance for keeping in touch with our young men and women who defend our country, our freedom every day, for letting them all know that we do care, they do matter to us as they prove to us each day we matter to them.
This is a beautiful poem & like many I felt it was a wonderful way of letting our service men & women know how much I care & how much they matter to me, how much I love each one of them for sacrificing their youth, their lives for us.
Ed ________ – a SwiftBoat (#79?)captain. Please thank your friend Ed _________ for all he gave during his time in VN. Richard Baumberger, BM3 KIA 5/5/69 was my fiancée - 3rd time in VN - taken 36 years ago.
Unfortunately no one seems to know who the author is as you can see from the links below. Even Dr. Laura's web site has it posted as Author Unknown.
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2005/12/a_different_chr.html
http://www.drlaura.com/letters/?mode=view&tile=1&id=10896
Thank you,
Barbara _________