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Watching the attacks on the World Trade Center from the rooftop of my New York apartment on September 11, I knew I was witnessing a war. I knew our military would soon be called to duty and my heart immediately went to our military and their families.

I remember that moment as my own Vietnam flashback. I recalled the harshness, verbal attacks and political reprisals directed at my father and our family by teachers, the media, protestors and even extended family. Even as a small child, while my parents protected me from the politics of war and the dangers, there were adults out there who taught my classmates that my father was a “babykiller” and that we were “war-mongerers”.

How sad that those people didn’t understand that they were not promoting peace, but merely forcing families who were already sacrificing so much to suffer alone, and compounding the pressures of a war and separation of families.

I hoped and prayed that no families would suffer what our soldiers and their families suffered during Vietnam. I was inspired, at that moment, to write a poem about my own experience, as a child, having a parent deployed to war.

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