Fifteen-year-old
Stephen Maffo attends Fairport Harding School in Fairport Harbor, Ohio. Reading
The Year of Goodbyes led him to wrestle with the subject of war. When, if ever, is war necessary? In his poem, Stephen emphasizes the risk of not standing up to attackers, and the need to ensure our nation's survival. It's a weighty and serious subject. I appreciate Stephen's thoughts and the manner in which he has expressed them, even as I don't embrace the zero-sum thinking reflected in the poem's we win/they lose thesis, and I hold on to the hope that, in most conflicts, there is another way.
Many
have mixed feelings
About
this topic,
Me?
Fighting
Serving
in a war is a war for survival
It’s a
struggle
That
we as Americans
Face
with the utmost
Feelings
to fight for it,
And do
what you feel is right for the nation.
You
may be thinking
“There are ways around it” and
“We
shouldn’t fight, we need another resolution.”
Another
resolution?
You
mean withdraw.
Let
them build up and strike us again?
Attack
us
Terrorize
us
And
allow it to happen?
No,
The
survival of our nation
The
defeat of theirs.
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