Explanation:
I wrote the following poem constructed on the my understanding of the journal article, by Charles V. Ferree, based on his experience during World War Two, from liberating prisoners from concentration camps. I utilized nouns, verbs, and adjectives to express my poem, to find the tone of the poem. The main idea of this poem is based on men and women sacrificing themselves to create a safer place for me and you. This poem is based on soldiers liberating Jews.
(Jews wearing striped uniforms of the concentration camp. Pappy prisoners at Dachau cheer troops of the 45th Div, 7th US Army who liberated them on April 30, 1945.)
Poem:
I was first lieutenant in the 9th air force.
After we landed we were taken into a camp,
The experience was nauseating.
Piles of bodies everywhere.
The thought was unimaginable.
I felt more anger against the Germans.
We headed to Dachau, I thought Buchenwald
was bad: Dachau was worse.
We headed toward the camp,
all I heard was sporadic gunfire.
Every direction there was skeletal prisoners,
tormenting the guards to death.
I burned my uniform, to rid the smell.
Though 50 years later,
the smell is still with me.
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