Dirt

In basic training

    we had to move them,

the dirt and the holes.

And if there was any left over,

    we dug a new hole to bury the dirt.

It’s important

    they said.

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Richard Epstein was in the U.S. Army Signal Corps and set up and maintained communications equipment in N.E. Thailand and Qui Nhon, Vietnam.