To this day the Vietnam War is considered one of the most devastating wars in history and has been resented by American culture thirty-three years after its END. For the American public it was marked as the point in history when distrust in our government was at an all-time high, especially since most of the war's carnage was first seen on television. Despite all the bloodshed suffered by American and Vietnamese soldiers, the war left a perpetual mark not only on the United States, but it also left a permanent scar on the soldiers who fought and managed to survive the war. The famous war poet Bruce Weigl, like most young Americans of the time, was only nineteen when he participated in the war and fought for three years. The traumatic experiences he faced during the war and after his military service in the United States helped him develop a particularly emotional and explicit poetry that bluntly dealt with the atrocious images of Vietnam. When interviewed by his fellow poet and student, David Keplinger, Bruce openly states that “”…it didn’t occur to me to write poems about war for a long time. It's not that it hadn't occurred to me, but I wondered why anyone would want to read about the war because it was bad enough” (Keplinger 141). After the war Weigl received his doctorate. at the University of Utah and before that he made stops at Oberlin College and the University of New Hampshire. Weigl's encounter with war allowed him to depict graphic illustrations of it, and that effect seems to creep into the present. His work is heavily saturated with the brutalities of the Vietnam War and echoes that very sentiment. The… center of the card… an amount of decay that can be highlighted by such an encounter, but Weigl makes his way towards managed to pull it off in a very artistic way. Bruce Weigl's work gives readers an accurate look at what happened in Vietnam. His poetry reveals a harsher reality of the war that goes beyond the simple number of people who died. The idea that real human beings are victims of war is a burden shared by Weigl and the other poets of the Vietnam War. To this day, Americans see the fallen simply as names and bodies, nothing more. Weigl serves as a frontline example of how painful and disturbing the war was, and his poetry is heavily influenced by it in almost every aspect. Furthermore, he reminds us that the images he witnessed are unforgettable and are completely ingrained in his mind to the point that horror takes center stage and projecting it as beautiful is his main goal..