RoseAnn V. Shawiak Soldier Poems

Never cared much about football, even less about
the Cardinals.
Pat Tillman rose above the football field, reached
out and touched our lives with his love.
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Innocent, naïve young soldiers sent to a foreign country
without a clue of reality, just words spoken to them
encouraging attitudes needed to fight a war.
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Seeing my niece's emptiness and fear, because her
husband is somewhere in Kuwait.
Tearful, constantly lying in bed, thinking of him,
a lone soldier, like all the others in this war of
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