As I sat there with my Pandora station picking songs from my eclectic list, Creedence, Haim, Oh the Larceny, Zach Bryan, and then I hear...

I wrote this back when I was an undergrad at NAU. It is in honor of my dad's service in the Air Force and also for all those who defend our freedoms everyday. Thank you. I was encouraged by friends to enter it in a contest and it won the grand prize! I got some money and my first published work. Below you can read it. I scanned it from the book it is in so it's a little blurred.