Okinawa Poem by Ana Monnar

Have you ever heard of Okinawa?
I said, “Okinawa, not Chihuahua.”
Largest island of the Central Ryukus
Islands
Battles raising demands
During the end of World War II
It was hard to construe
U.S. Marines and Army troops
All fought in enormous groups
Took the island from the Japanese
It took training and expertise
The Americans had quite a victory
The Japanese found it contradictory
The battle of Okinawa was the last
of World War II
Troops going home to their families,
Way overdue