C. Douglas “Doug” Caffey
Charles Douglas Caffey is a disabled veteran of WWII. He served (1944-1946) in the 509th Composite Bomb Group, 58th Wing, Air Photo Unit, 20th Air Force, United States Army Air Force. It was the 509th who dropped the atomic bombs on Japan and did the atom bomb tests at Bikini in the Pacific. A chronic sufferer of PTSD since WWII, Doug is a former college dean. He started writing poetry two and a half years ago and though he doesn’t claim to be a poet, he does claim to write from the heart.
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Index of Writings
- A 20’s Child
- A B-29 Over Japan
- A Cup of Yesterday!
- A Different Generation
- A Pilot’s Prayer
- A Sheet of Paper
- A Vet and His Dog
- A WWII Vet Looks Back
- All Is Quiet on Iwo Jima
- Almost Memorial Day Again
- An Old Flag Will Do
- An Old Veteran
- Another 4th of July
- Are You Down Today?
- At the VA Today
- I Picked Up My Pen Again…
- I Remember Him Well
- I Saw a Veteran Yesterday!
- I Saw an Old Veteran
- I Saw Liberty Crying
- If I Should Die Today
- Is There Such a Place…?
- It’s Christmas Once More, Unlike the One in Forty-Four!
- Marines Are Special!
- Memorial Day 2005
- Memorial Day 2007
- Memories of World War II (Atomic Bomb)
- Mister, Can You Spare a Rainbow?
- My Poetic Pen is Dry
- October is Today
- Ode to the Past
- Old Memories (From a WWII Veteran)
- Old Pages
- Old Vets…
- Old WWII Vets
- One Day in June
- One Day Soon
- One More Day In the Sun
- Saying Goodbye to America (Part 1)
- Saying Goodbye to America (Part 2)
- She Walks Among the Flowers
- Short Verse
- Shot Down over Germany
- Sixty-Two Years of PTSD
- So Wise You Are
- Soloed So Long Ago
- Some Came Not Back
- Standing On The Edge Of Today
- Stone
- Ten Thousand Miles…
- Thank You Lord…
- Thanks For All The Blessings
- The Backroads
- The Best Days are Gone
- The Hills of Yesterday
- The Minds Of Old WWII Vets
- The Moving Years
- The Old Home Place
- The Old Man of the Lake
- The Ribbons on His Chest
- The Walk Back to Yesterday
- The Walnut Experience
- The White Cliffs of Dover
- The Worst Time…
- Thoughts on Birthdays
- Three Generations
- Time Is 5:32 a.m. of Thursday’s Morning…
- Tribute to Paul W. Tibbets: General, United States Air Force