I did not wish to protest against war. My object was to remember. I wanted people to find in my poems the truth of what it had been like to be an Ame… - Louis Simpson

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I did not wish to protest against war. My object was to remember. I wanted people to find in my poems the truth of what it had been like to be an American infantry soldier. Now I see I was writing a memorial of those years, for the me I had known, who were silent.