The Corps

My husband says you have become my friends. Can I have friends who are dead?

I know a lot about the wall of you, albeit dressed alike. One West Pointer after another - the Long Gray Line.

In your yearbook every one of you has condensed four years of your life into a paragraph.

I know the activities in which you participated:

          Fencing
          Track
          Pistol
          Rifle
          Press Representative

          and girls

I know your nicknames:

          Zero
          Doo-Daz
          Boomer
          Rads
          Smo

I know one of you piloted "Puff the Magic Dragon".

I know one of you thought Cam Rahn Bay was in North Jersey.

I know one of you was my grandfather; one of you was my father.