Time Travel Is All I've got Left

[dukealien]

It’s not World War II
more like the Plains Indian wars
fought in a wilderness of prairie and river,
mountains and hidden streams,
murdered settlers, burned out villages,
buffalo and elk, eagles overhead.
My romantic view of a life
at the end of its century
where I wander, not quite an outcast,
but homeless 
at bay in an endless grassland.
I’ve lost my gun and my horse,
no one but me and my old dog.
Where do I go from here?

Plaintive and evocative - nice.  Things noticed:  first, it's a war (not WW2, but the one he's got).  Second, it's the Indian Wars post-1840 or so - plains, but not forests (post-Tippecanoe).  Third, and quite neat:  "...a life.. at the end of its century" so the guy's (or the war's) almost a hundred years old.  But significantly, the horse and gun are gone (immobile and defenseless) so - must be today, a person who's lost (or given up?) those things searching for companionship (or compliance?)  As someone in Hollywood said, "If you want a friend, get a dog."  He didn't say it in a nice way, though.  (Or was it Washington, or Wall street?)