My Friends are Pacifists.

I was sitting around a bonfire on the 4^th of July

With some of my friends

one of the guys was just back

from beer run and as

he began filling the cooler said

“I met a vet at the liquor store,

He came up to me and wanted to

Know what kind of beer I was getting

He only had one hand,

Told me he lost the other one in the Gulf war

Called it the ‘Gulf War Conflict’

But then he told me he was also

in Korea and Nam before that.”

We all listened to the story

While the fire cast his shadow

Onto the trees around us

As we cracked fresh beers

someone said:

“When you said Vet

I seriously thought you meant veterinarian.”

dwitt + ben weaver