D-Day + 50.

• Position: Poem

D-Day + 50 "Bodies, heads, flesh, intestines: That's what Omaha Beach was. " --Corporal Samuel Fuller US 1st Infantry Division For three days we finally watch the war we missed on nightly news "Operation Overlord" Convoys strewn across the English Channel In the lead: battleships, cruisers, destroyers Guns blaze toward the Normandy shore After every commercial break the same gray scene helmeted silhouettes splashing onto the beach square-hunched with packs and every time I stare at the soldier on the right I know what is going to happen his legs fold, he crumples I watch veterans interviewed on Omaha Beach GI hats tipped slightly over gray hair ribbons paraded across tight-fining GI jackets With tears the old...