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Daddy

July 27, 2010
By sburt33 GOLD, Kissimmee, Florida
sburt33 GOLD, Kissimmee, Florida
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;And they say we&#039;ll never see half as much <br /> as they did. It&#039;s true that we never saw Vietnam <br /> or World War Two. We didn&#039;t see our mother&#039;s cry <br /> when John F. Kennedy died, but we&#039;ve lived our <br /> whole lives being told that we&#039;re just not good <br /> enough. We&#039;ve seen anorexia and bulimia because <br /> skinny just isn&#039;t skinny enough. We saw Columbine <br /> and watched the Twin Towers fall. We&#039;ve seen a <br /> lot of greed and even more hate. Our generation <br /> fights a different kind of war but we&#039;ve seen just <br /> as much as them.. and maybe even more.&quot;


Only 18, sitting on
His newly crushed pride.
So full of life, the
Father-to-be of 5.
If you had the chance,
Would you have wanted to know how it’s going to end?

A single shot.
That’s all it took to shatter the lives
Of so many. If you could would you have changed it?
The feelings, desperation. Think about us.
Would you still pull the trigger?

The author's comments:
A poem I wrote after finding a picture of my father at 18.

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