Wednesday, June 25th 2014

KOREAN WAR

On this day in 1950 the people's army of
North Korea invaded South Korea.
It was the beginning of a conflict that would
cost the lives of 5 million people.
Many felt at the time that this war was a
war to stop Communist aggression.

Korea is still a

divided country 

today.

The television show "Mash" was 

an attempt to reveal something of

the conflict in Korea.

War stories are still being

remembered and told today by

the men and women who were there.

If you ask you will get the real story . . . 

BROKEN WEATHER

                             -County Kerry

                                                       

I am the woman photographer

and you, the priest.

We meet in a storm-beaten cottage,

the air full of Irish blood pudding

and aromatic peat.

You speak of Heartbreak Ridge 

the Korean War.

As the fireplace spits

you bow in supplication. 

“I did not drive the Jeep,

or I’d be dead.”

Your spirit seems unredeemed 

like something left behind

in a pawnshop along the quay.

After you leave, I focus on you

through the misty window.

When the film is developed,

it is not you,

but my steady hand reaching

through a pane of glass.

                             -Kathleen Gunton 

                            ÓFree Lunch #32

                                     Winter 2004

R.I.P Tom

June 2014