We function on two planes <br />That on which we plan, hope for, act on <br />The other that which happens <br />Ken Burns film 'The War' <br />Helped me see this sensed truth clearly <br />With a fellow from Mobile Alabama <br />Who thought he was safe from Hitler <br />Being stationed in the Philippines and <br />Found himself on the Bataan Death March. <br />As David Pohl of Boston so sagely said to me <br />At leave taking for Desert Storm <br />'This isn't what you planned for at all.'<br /><br />Bill Grace<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/plans/