bob joe mac Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 ok well I know this isn't the right place to ask about this but this is driving me insane. I need to find this poem/ short story and need help or at least a website to help me in my search. i think it was called something along the lines of the bomber or firebomber its roughly 3 pages long and is about a firebomber during the vietnam or korean war who has been ordered to bomb a villiage. he compares himself to god where he can be a vengeful god or a merciful god and bomb the villigers or the crop fields in the end he bombs the crop fields. he goes back later to see the villiage he saved and realizes there are no kids he asks where they are and one of the villigers tell him when the alarm sounded they sent the children into the crop fields to avoid the bombing... so yeah help would be appreciated sorry mods if this doesn't belong here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr March Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 (edited) "The Firebombing" by James Dickey (1923-1997). The poem is actually written in the first person and I beleive was about a pilot that performs the dropping of fuel bombs in World War II. Edited November 2, 2004 by Mr March Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dangaioh Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 (edited) Actually it was also in an episode of M.A.S.H. ... it was when the bombadier realized that he was a bombing a village and all of a sudden called himself Jesus. [ep. guide] This is the episode: 81. Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler? (G-513) November 7, 1975 Written by Burt Prelutsky Directed by Larry Gelbart Guest Stars: Allan Arbus, Edward Winter, Alan Fudge Intelligence officer Flagg (Edward Winter) and psychiatrist Sidney Freedman (Allan Arbus) grapple for the fate of a wounded officer (Alan Fudge) who says he's Jesus Christ. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/tv/mash/guide/ [/ep. guide] Now since the original was a poem, then it just makes this episode of M.A.S.H. just more compelling visually. Edited November 2, 2004 by Dangaioh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JsARCLIGHT Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 (edited) Just a correction the poem is The Firebombing by James Dickey. But Mr March is right that it is WW2 and recounts some of Dickey's own feelings of power when on bombing runs against the Japanese. Someone could have rewritten it in a Vietnam flavor but I have not seen it as such. Edit: March caught it just as I posted. Edited November 2, 2004 by JsARCLIGHT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob joe mac Posted November 2, 2004 Author Share Posted November 2, 2004 Thanks alot I read it a few years back and its always stuck me as a incredible moving poem but i could never find it again. Thanks alot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr March Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 Just a correction the poem is The Firebombing by James Dickey. But Mr March is right that it is WW2 and recounts some of Dickey's own feelings of power when on bombing runs against the Japanese. Someone could have rewritten it in a Vietnam flavor but I have not seen it as such.Edit: March caught it just as I posted. Too much Macross 7 I guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr March Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 Thanks alot I read it a few years back and its always stuck me as a incredible moving poem but i could never find it again. Thanks alot. I never read the poem myself, but I always remembered the title from way back. A lot of literature and art came out of the aftermath of WWII and I recall this was one of those works we passed by at school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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