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Purple Haze
by DavidRH3
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I Can Still Hear Purple Haze!
Certain songs - certain chords - bring back memories to us all!
Purple Haze is that song to me.
When the first chords are struck I am immediately transformed back to a time when I was young. Back to a time when my backyard was a rice paddy. Back to a time when the ladies in my life said, "GI, you buy me drink." Back to a time when cleaning my M-60 was the most important task in my life!
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I Can Still Hear Purple Haze.
Back to a time I would like to forget, but cannot! Back to a time that seems suspended in my mind! A time that never goes away always lurking always ready to spring into the here and now!
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I Can Still Hear Purple Haze.
What a way to live never knowing what memory will surface. When Desert Storm was over and the troops had their parades the only thing I could think of was where was our parade? Where were the cheering crowds? Where were the heros? I cried - and I cried. That was suposed to be the way we came home! I cried for them - I cried for me!
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I Can Still Hear Purple Haze.
So proud of them - what warriors they were! So still confused about us - about me! I feel pride - I know what we did I know what we survived! I feel that it was an honor and a privilege to serve my country. So why was I spit on and called a baby killer? So confused!
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I Can Still Hear Purple Haze.
The smell of spent gunpowder, the smell of napalm will never leave my senses. I will also react when I hear a chopper overhead. I will always jump when a vehicle backfires. So many sights and sounds bring back the war to me. If you were there, brother, you know what I mean! If you weren't there - it cannot be explained!
As we say to each other, "Welcome home, brother, welcome home."
I will Always Hear Purple Haze.
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You can email David. Just email me from the link below and write "David" in the subject line.
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