Anti-War Haiku Wall

my student tells me about his cousin who drowned in basic training he came up for air, but they stomped him under

my students tell me about invisible wounds slowly the day closes not even the birds have much to say

* 'Invisible wounds' -- the soldier's name for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

will Santa make her weep with his offers of wishes, and her son still dead?

opening the journal, I find his funeral poem and grieve again

My nephew died of untreated Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after his service in Iraq.