Talk:Beach Red
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is far more than a war film.... you have to read the book expecially stanza 48..... it is a novel written in the format of a poem...... There is a lull in the artillery barrage while the guns seem to shift gears...... and the small arms fire to the front of you seems Even louder and more Intense..... Attack Counter Attack.... Reatreat...... Pursuit.... Just words words words..... Put them all together and what do they add up to?
A soldier
an anonimous guy in a Uniform.... A number without a name.... A Body without a face....
An index card in a file cabinet bleeding to death......
GI joe they call him GI joe they say as if it were something cute and cunning to be smiled at patroningly...... Conducting himself throughout a dirty business with the Courage and Dignity and Laughter that is American....
But its more than just that....
Its seeing your budy shot and listening to him breath and watching his final movements.....
Its spending all night in a fox hole..... Its washing your socks in your helmet.... Its eating the same tasteless rasions out of a can three times a day..... Its swinging down the road while a public relations photographer takes your picture....
If you want to smoke nobody's got a cigarrette if you have a cigarette nobodys got a match.... If you want to shave you find you have lost your razor.... If you have your razor you find your blades are unusable.... If you have both good blades and your razor you find you have lost your can of shaving cream....
And if you have all three by the luck of God....
you are toild there is no hot water for shaving anyway....
It is a Compound fracture of the illusion.... A corpse dancing on a firelit wall..... A lonely night that sobs itself to sleep... a demented hunchback babbling to himself in the dark.... A tuneless piano with half of its keys missing.... A WILD SHRIEKING RIDE on the back of a runaway nightmare
A Spirit Perpetually standing at half mast....
someday they will put up a big monument to it in memory of those boys who fell during the course of its being...
It will be made of marble and bronze statuary and high sounding inscription ....
But if Joe has his way he will tear it down....
He would melt down the statue and let the marble crumble under indigant sledges....
He would put up his own WAR MONUMENT.....
It would be a little plot of ground in the center of the main drag....
there would be a drainage ditch cut through the middle of it, there would be barbed wire surrounding it...... and there would be a crudely lettered sign above it saying
LATRIN
then all the Joes could come urinate in it, Empty their bowels in it, throw garbage in it.... and fill it with red liquid that looks like blood....
and the people could come watch it flowing like a public fountain and they would smell it and be reminded what it is like to be at war.....
But you know.....
you can't drown a tragedy that takes lestens in swimming Unsigned, but made by 152.163.100.70
