Soldier’s Battle -Of Memories- Military (May Contest) AFRESH

your reference to Vietnam War reminds me of a very callous and loose remark made by the WH Aide about Senator McCaine and she is getting away with it without making a public apology.
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I could feel the slowdown that comes physically when the emotional shock hits. But even moreso, I could see it through your words.
it's always worth the risk to love"... I go back to your write and try to paint it optimistically... The effort it takes me to do so validates how strong the flow of your words must be. I rarely strive to paint love with a vibrant brush. Thank you for challenging me with this write.
Dependin' on what side of love's coin the reader is on, this piece has the perspectives of either hope or despair

of the military man; who used his youth to fight a battle that was half way around the world for people that he didn't know. It's a little rough around the edges, but i'm sure that you will smooth it out.
~ Geezer.
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I agree with Gee, this just needs a little tidy and it will shine.
I look forward to your edit before the deadline, not a pun.
Have you ever been in a war zone???
I have to use imagination to see these places.
Take care and know we walk with you,
Yours Ian..

First on the technical end I would try to avoid "..." I use it a lot in comments, because it's a way of expressing a conversation, "like, you know..." I think it detracts from poetry. If you remove them it does not change the meanings, just the tone to more concrete.
In the opening you say of Vietnam is a "God forsaken place". All tropical jungles might be that, but I think to the Vietnamese the whole country was hardly that.
Personally I am not convinced this is true:

A warrior confronts wars
in the wilderness
for welfare and security
to save your country...

Perhaps to save HIS country, although we basically lost the war in Vietnam and the country was ever hardly in danger from it. Nor was Korea. Nor was Iraq, now disputably the stupidest war we have had based on lies and falsehoods. To me a warrior confronts wars because the masters of wars make wars, and most of them are for very little, or nothing at all.

To me this is the strength of the poem

why then ever consider
forsaking the bravest valiant fighter
now lying breathless, in me? (add a question mark not "...")

This is where the poem should go, where you become a haven for the warrior now trapped in his environment with little hope of survival.
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Hello Lovedly,
Here I found your poem, initially I thought it is on the top of the feed and did not find it.
Very interesting and deep work.
I have suggestions/questions:

Distant rain-forests since uninhabited
gives me a virtual, at times real image
of combatants shriveled up in Fatigues,
(Distant rain-forests
instead of adventure story
gives me an image of warriors,
combatants shriveled up in fatigue?)
A weary teenage soldier
across the densest jungles (jungle?)
of a far off almost like any other
God forsaken place
called
Vietnam.

The young fighter
then needed your love most (I would take out your)
the softness, the affection, and tenderness
since extinguished and replaced
now with hatred, bloodshot eyes
full of immense wrath
against the vile, rival
concealed may be beyond a solitary tree...

Forests are a dangerous
place to be in (may be remove in?)
as one doesn't know
a tiger, a reptile, an anaconda
or the bullet of a villain (a bullet?)
may take one’s life
just for the asking

but at that moment of Time,
no true soldier knows
where actually is he...
as one lurks behind the intertwined
dense foliage of trees

in a passion of ( self preservation,
fear and hatred).

The unbeaten warrior
has extinguished all hopes
of being once again
back within a loving family

why then ever consider
forsaking the bravest valiant fighter
now lying breathless, in me?

Vietnam, Iraq, Syria
or any other place it could be
still wait for me (waiting?)

O politicians why veil a serviceman
insensibly(? instead of ...)

it is almost the last day of may, good morning

We ask the all of our soldiers during war then toss them aside when they are used up. Your poem reveals this much better........stan