Wow! that poem puts you in the fox holes and on the battlefields alright.

I'm a veteran who missed Vietnam by just a few years.

Here is a more philosophical musing focusing on the victimized society.

https://allpoetry.com/What-Were-They-Like-

I would read this poem while on active duty and thank my luck star I wasn't two or more years older, with an unlucky lottery # pick.