Author: Paul Hellweg
Location: Southern California

Paul Hellweg is a member of both Veterans for Peace and Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and he strongly believes that working to help end all war is the most important purpose of his life. He fancies himself a poet too.

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Casualty Notification

The Secretary of the Army
has asked me
to inform you
that your (check one),
Son
Daughter
Husband
Wife
Sister
Brother,
Name & Rank ___________________________
Serial Number __________________________
has been (check one)
Slightly Wounded
Seriously Wounded
Slightly Killed
Seriously Killed
while serving in (check one)
Iraq
Afghanistan
Panama
Grenada
Vietnam
Korea
(Other)

The Secretary of the Army
would like to say
to the bereaved (check one):
Sorry, Charlie
It don’t mean nothin’
So it goes
It is what it is

There will be no further notification.

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