midnight thunder
deafening as metal sheets
across the sky ...
again my father fights
his war of ghostly pasts
FYI:
War is a bloody, killing business. You’ve got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours.
-- General George S. Patton's speech, given ahead of the Allied invasion
War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.
-- Harry Elmer Barnes
For more, see Special Feature: "Selected Poems for Reflections on D-Day's 80th Anniversary"
Added:
the rusty door
of grandpa's backyard bunker ...
D-Day news on mute