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Battle-Scarred (poem)

By Lura Stephanie Gaiek

Father's Day 2005,
The day my dad last was alive.
Diabetes, heart disease, lung cancer too,
Agent Orange, what did you do?
You stole my father through and through.
A Bronze Star, 2 Air Medals, and a Purple Heart,
Are still not enough to unbreak my heart.

—Lura Stephanie Gaiek