Sometimes…

when Maggie & I are walking…

in the late afternoon…

you can hear the stuttered hum…

of helicopters…

off  in the distance.

And as the warm sunlight…

stretches over the rice patties…

a Chinook or an Apache will suddenly appear…

from over the tree tops.

And in my mind…

I hear….

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And everything suddenly takes on the glow of Vietnam circa 1970.