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Lisa Baird's avatar

Gorgeous and so moving Caitlin….beginning and ending with the same sentences makes your poem all the more heart wrenching.

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Sube Robertson's avatar

Wow, just YES, yes, yes. I love the title very much, as well as "by boots of hardened men" because to have their place in history, in my opinion, one is hardened in one way or another. Thanks for sharing this poem.

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Amy Marlo's avatar

Love this!

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ann schneider's avatar

A beautiful and powerful poem...thank you.

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ann schneider's avatar

I edited whatever that word was instead of beautiful. Mistype!! 😂

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Caitlin Ellefson Spohrer's avatar

Oh, I'm very familiar with those, haha!

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