The View From Kilroy's Head
August, 1971
In enlisted men's latrines and officers' bathrooms, in the dingy toilets of Saigon bars, in hospital johns and dining-hall men's rooms, wherever men in Vietnam relieve themselves, they also relieve their tensions by writing on the walls. It is not an easy job. The establishment paints and repaints to smother and cover the poetry and cursing; in some cases, black paint is used as a final solution. But the GI remains undaunted. He writes in pen and pencil and finally in chalk or penknife or bayone...
