Thread: brief history of a short epitaph
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Unread 10-07-2002, 05:33 PM
Tim Murphy Tim Murphy is offline
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Robert L. Barth served with distinction in Vietnam. And he is surely our definitive poet of that unfortunate war:

Simonides in Vietnam

Go tell the Spartans that we hold this land,
Deeply dug in, obeying their command.
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