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Death Speak
 
What does death sound like? Is it the sharp, piercing whine of a ricochet? The shocking, body-bouncing, earth-rippling, awful thunder of explosions from close air support? The deadly chunk of  enemy mortars?
 
Is it the ragged, ghastly gasps of desperate respiration from a buddy clinging tenaciously to life? The soft susurration of a final breath as the reluctant soul departs its earthly harbor?
 
The keening, sad wail of a mourner’s deep anguish? The primal, feral, teeth bared, triumphant howl of an exultant warrior as his foe falls, bloody and vanquished?
 
Or just mind-numbed, weary sighs of prematurely aged young men, grown too soon accustomed to such fearsome things, as they  subconsciously mourn the sad, premature demise of  youthful innocence?
© 3/3/2008 T. P. Woodfork


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