Twice wounded 11th Armored Cav vet and Boston Southie poet Dave Connolly was recently interviewed by Jim Di Filippi on his podcast Blue Smoke and Black Ink. Dave reads a poem or two. Tells of his grandmother saving his life in Vietnam with a prophesy she made when he was fifteen. He describes the protesters who greeted him at the airport on a return trip, telling them, “I’m just bringing a dead buddy home. I have to go back.”
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Dave’s poems in Vietnam Generation Journal, Volume 4, Number 3-4, 1992
See Dave’s prose work on Medic in the Green Time here.
Jim DiFilippi’s podcast Blue Smoke and Black Ink
War Poet Dave Connolly Tells It Like It Is
Twice wounded 11th Armored Cav vet and Boston Southie poet Dave Connolly was recently interviewed by Jim Di Filippi on his podcast Blue Smoke and Black Ink. Dave reads a poem or two. Tells of his grandmother saving his life in Vietnam with a prophesy she made when he was fifteen. He describes the protesters who greeted him at the airport on a return trip, telling them, “I’m just bringing a dead buddy home. I have to go back.”
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Dave’s poems in Vietnam Generation Journal, Volume 4, Number 3-4, 1992
See Dave’s prose work on Medic in the Green Time here.
Jim DiFilippi’s podcast Blue Smoke and Black Ink