Professional photograph 1974-5

I believe I had these made for the parents.  By December of 1975, I was promoted to 1st lieutenant; so this had to be taken between 1974-5.

When I look back at all of my Air Force photographs, I am surprised at the length of my hair.  I guess we could wear it longer than I remembered, and certainly much longer than in the Marines.

The Last War Like

Sparks
                  crossing silent
                                              skid the air...

We are the chance for war
and imagine some, or maybe all of us,
gone in his own glory
blazing.

Each a personal vision
like hell.
Our beliefs,
no more horrible than orbiting
within range of an uncontrollable sun.

A merely sooner tiring of human tensions.
We cannot refuse,
for what remains may be a knowing
never moving to this end a second time.

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