Bill Grace - Plans

We function on two planes
That on which we plan, hope for, act on
The other that which happens
Ken Burns film 'The War'
Helped me see this sensed truth clearly
With a fellow from Mobile Alabama
Who thought he was safe from Hitler
Being stationed in the Philippines and
Found himself on the Bataan Death March.
As David Pohl of Boston so sagely said to me
At leave taking for Desert Storm
'This isn't what you planned for at all.'

Bill Grace

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