Randall Jerell

Chicagoboyz has a post reviewing a German film, "Dresden". Obama will be stopping in that historic city and the post is well worth reading and they make fine note of the President's visit.

They finish the post with a Randall Jerell poem which, in this rain, looking over an old graveyard, seems well worth copying and pasting for anyone else who may be interested:

"Losses"

In bombers named for girls, we burned
The cities we had learned about in school–
Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among
The people we had killed and never seen.
When we lasted long enough they gave us medals;
When we died they said, “Our casualties were low.”

They said, “Here are the maps”; we burned the cities.