Donald Hall's "1943"

This poem is about being in the United States during WWII.  Donald Hall talks about how "they hardened us for war."  He also mentions how quickly things changed.  Ten months after being knocked out in the heavy-weight championship, Dominick Esposito was knocked out at the of Tarawa.  Another feeling Hall conveys to the reader is how inconsequential life was in the States.  People were getting milk while marines were dying in water and suffering from frostbite, but nobody in the States could do anything about it.  To portray this emotion, Hall releases an exasperated interjection of "what could we do" in the last line.  Hall structures the poem into five stanzas each with 2 lines each.  This structure makes the poem a little unnerving because the reader never finds a rhythm since sentences are always broken up across two stanzas.  This is very similar to the life people were living in the States.  Every morning getting the milk as if nothing was wrong but knowing that people are dying everyday to give you that right.