Author: jimmypappas

A “scream wound” is a wound from which even the most hardened combat soldier cannot help but scream from the pain. As such, it becomes a metaphor for the entire Vietnam War. It still brings us pain. Many of us, including myself, have our personal scream wounds. Mine are the friends I lost in the War. Some of that is based on feelings of guilt that I have been able to live such an interesting life … life while they died so young in combat. Almost all of the poems in this book are based on the accounts I was…