What fell like rain on the unprotected.
Cassi Creek:
“…When the war was
younger, wasn't any open road,
Jungle brushed the sidestakes
and blocked out the overhead.
Set up in the brush
nearby, ambushes were hard to spot,
Troopers running
Thunder Road too often wound up dead.
“Enter high technology,
Monsanto, Dow and chemistry,
Sprayed it with
defoliants that burned the jungle back.
Agent Orange, Agent
White, one of them will work just right,
Turn the Thunder Road
into a barren, safer track…”
Recently, the 5th and 7th lines of these
verses of a poem have been rattling around the inside of my skull. There’s some reason to believe that I had
more reason to condemn the use of defoliants beyond the immediate, increasing
the distance of the open ground between the road and the treeline, increasing
the distance they had to charge on foot, under fire, to break an ambush.
“One of them
will work just right!” That remains to
be determined.
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