Don’t Put Me in a Nursing Home

This poem originated from a YouTube video titled “Who was Trinh Cong Son — nationalist or communist?” All the content was based on Lien Thanh’s book, published after TCS’s death in 2001. The dead can’t speak. After Lien Thanh passed away in 2021, I rewatched that video, and this poem was born so that the…

Fifty years have passed since the civil war came to an end—a span of time longer than the lives of many unfortunate soldiers from both North and South, as well as more than 58,000 American service members who were killed in the war. Most were under the age of twenty-four; many were only eighteen or…