Poetic Obituaries: Last October, [Cpl. Cody] Wanken told

the Des Moines Register how he wrote a poem about war to push people to realize that "war isn't fun and games."

The poem was distributed at his funeral. It talks of a young Marine who "throws up and cries for Jesus."

"They say war isn't a game, or is it?" he wrote. "People watch t.v. or play video games and want it. But they don't know what nightmares are and what dead bodies smell like."

from The Des Moines Register: Iowa man's funeral: 'He dreamed of doing his part . . . as a Marine'

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