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We are your sons, America…
When you awake,
We will still be here.
from a poem by Cpl. W. D. Ehrhart
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Cpl. W. D. Ehrhart served with the 1st Battalion, 1st Regiment, 1st Marine Division, operating in I Corps, from February 1967-February 1968. A prolific author of poetry and prose, he has published several books, among them Unaccustomed Mercy: Soldier Poets of the Vietnam War (Texas Tech University Press, 1989), Carrying the Darkness: The Poetry of the Vietnam War (Texas Tech University Press, 1989), Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir (University of Massachusetts Press, 1995, second edition), and Passing Time: Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran Against the War (University of Massachusetts Press, 1995).
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