KyiMayKaung

Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Burmese-born Marine killed in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, buried in Arlington National Cemetery -

Flag of Fathers - DC Reagan National Airport - photo copyright Kyi May Kaung

http://articles.herald-mail.com/2011-01-18/news/27035780_1_arlington-national-cemetery-local-marine-grave-site

Helmand Province -Afghanistan -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmand_Province

IEDs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_explosive_device

KyiMayKaung

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Burmese-born Marine killed in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, buried in Arlington National Cemetery -

This is like my magnet poetry--I tried to submit it to Poet Lore but it was rejected by E.Ethelbert Miller--a lovely man and a lovely poet.

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