TBS 2-67 Cruisebook_Updated_7Jan23

A Year in the Provinces
the reflection of the men one followed or traipsed
alongside in battle, shoulder to shoulder.
The landing craft that took Company C ashore
in the Provinces rides back a year later higher in the
surf. It’s less full; some are absent. Unchanged is
their character – then and now. They are somehow
the same young lieutenants who felt their way down
the landing nets, got in, and went ashore.
All of one piece of the same green cloth.
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