And we thought that was an awful war...

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We all remember the picture,

The grimace of pain and despair,

As the gun blew his head out sideways

And his life disappeared in the air.

Update on 2012-04-29 20:49 by Startzman

For information on the historical event described in the verse, see this Wikipedia site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Ngoc_Loan