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    Korean Echoes
    Korean Echoes
    Korean Echoes
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    Korean Echoes

    By Tom Sheehan

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    Reading the 45 pieces of Korean Echoes draws the reader into piecing together a puzzle, each piece a small measure of the Korean War soldier's world, a world wholly embedded in the deepest design at the heart of human experience, embedded as if words were shrapnel, steel moments of clarity rendered from language and pounded into consciousness through Tom Sheehan's craftsmanship, each piece of his writing a sharpened moment of awareness stating all humanity can be, do, and endure, while continuing to love life and living, a testament to the tenacity of the human spirit to survive the killing fields of war through time eternal.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMilSpeak Books
    Release dateSep 3, 2011
    ISBN9781452406848
    Korean Echoes
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    Tom Sheehan

    Tom Sheehan is a renowned music photographer. Former Chief Photographer for Melody Maker, he has taken iconic images of artists including Oasis, The Smiths, The Cure, The Jam, Mick Jagger, Ozzy Osbourne, Snoop Dogg, Tom Waits, Kate Bush and many more. Described as 'legendary' by Vice, Tom's photographs have featured in the NME, The Times, the Guardian, the Observer, Q, Uncut and Mojo.

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      Book preview

      Korean Echoes - Tom Sheehan

      KOREAN ECHOES

      A collection

      not by the numbers

      but in Alpha Formation

      by

      Tom Sheehan

      31st Infantry Regiment,

      7th Division, Korea, 1951

      ****

      Smashwords Edition

      Published by MilSpeak Books

      A Division of MilSpeak Foundation, Inc. (501c3)

      http://www.milspeak.org

      EBook version copyright 2012 MilSpeak Books

      All EBook rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

      All other literary and photographic material copyright 2011 Thomas Sheehan

      Cover - Perhaps, for a breath or two, he’s  home.... - Developed by Jamie Sheehan with Sketch by Tom Sheehan, Jr.

      Photo Collage by Tom Sheehan & Jamie Sheehan

      All other photos - Tom Sheehan's collection

      For permissions, contact milspeakbooks@milspeak.org

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only and may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author’s and the artist’s hard work.

      Images and quotes within this book that are excerpted in brief form are used in accordance with fair use interpretation of U.S. Copyright Law and the Digital Millennial Copyright Act. Every attempt has been made to attribute and credit excerpted material correctly. Any errors or omissions should be brought to the attention of the publisher and will be corrected in future editions of the book. This creative work represents only the poet's opinions, ideas, and imagination, and not those of any other organization, institution, or persons. The U.S. Department of Defense, its subsidiaries and/or adjutants, does not endorse this book, nor does this book in any way represent the views of DOD or of the U.S. Government.

      MilSpeak Foundation, Inc., a 501c3 nonprofit organization, exists to raise awareness about creative works by military people to a more visible and influential position in American culture and seeks to be a leader in shaping a receptive climate for creative works by military people. By developing new audiences, creating new avenues for delivery, and encouraging creativity among military people, MilSpeak Foundation aspires to make creative works by military people directly relevant to the public, while diminishing the military stereotype and assisting military people assimilate their experience through participating in the Arts. Through writing, creating art and performing, military people preserve the history of everyday military life, learn about stress management benefits of participating in the Arts, and increase civilian understanding about military life. Purchasing a MilSpeak Books title supports MilSpeak Foundation programs. MilSpeak Foundation is not affiliated with the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government.

      ****

      Acknowledgments to Editors and Publishers

      The author extends his thanks to editors/publishers of the following publications where some of this work has appeared in these or earlier revisions:

      Wolf Moon Press

      Eden Waters Press

      Ad Hoc Monadnock

      Tattoo Highway

      Copperfield Review

      New Plains Review

      Camroc Press

      Vermont Literary Review

      MilSpeak Memo

      Word Catalyst

      Town Creek Poetry

      Qarrtsiluni

      Ocean Magazine

      Writing Raw

      Ken* Again

      Lady Jane Miscellany

      Eskimo Pie

      Troubadour 21

      Canary

      The Poetry Bus

      Literary Tonic

      Burnt Bridge

      Hamilton Stone Review

      Exercise Bowler

      The Cenacle

      Specter Magazine

      Electric Acorn

      Slow Trains

      3 A.M. Magazine

      Stirring

      Literary Potpourri

      Hudson/Skyline

      Tryst

      War and Literature

      ****

      Dedication

      For those comrades who have passed through Saugus, through every town, those comrades who bravely walked away from home and fell elsewhere, and the frailest imaginable warrior of all, frightened and glassy-eyed and knowing he is hapless, one foot onto the soil at D-Day or a statistical sandy beach of the South Pacific, in a piece of dense jungle or on current desert sands, in the high blue of a final day or strange waters soon blessed, and going down, but not to be forgotten, not here. Not ever here.

      ****

      Table of Contents

      A Boy I Once Knew

      Photograph 1

      Tom Sheehan at Fort Devens, MA with 278th RCT from Tennessee, before deployment to Korea, with Rod Jenkins from Elizabethton, Tennessee, in the background.

      A Last Moment Caught

      A Letter to Orlando

      A Mad Mixture

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