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Life Arts 3/20/2010 at 1:44 PM EDT

A Soldier's Lament

By Doug Soderstrom (Page 2 of 2 pages) Become a premium member to see this article and all articles as one long page. No comments

But now as a man,
Not as an innocent child frightened by what might someday be,
But rather as a soldier tortured by what once was.

Sitting and starring with conscience in hand,
Asking the single, most fundamentally-haunting question of my life,
Why?

*Article first published by the Fellowship Magazine (Spring, 2007) of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (Nyack, New Nork)

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