The Different War Author:Michael Miller Former Marine Michael Miller, who did his tour of duty from 1958 to 1962, compares the sturggles of soldiers in the Vietnam War with those of soldiers in Afghanistan and and Iraq, and juxtaposes soldiers' combat experiences with the other war they face when they come home. — In the Different War, Miller's sixth poetry collection, th... more »e voices of Marines convey with exceptional understatement the sounds of suffering, whether in combat or in recurring dreams of the maimed and dying: "his eyes closing upon the charred remains/Of what had been his glory".
Miller has written well of memories of war, if not his own then surely of imagined memories that could be true.« less