Poetry gives Vietnam veteran a voice

By LINDA MOWERY-DENNING 

Poetry has been part of Robert Shaffer’s life off and on since he was a student at Ellsworth High School in the 1960s. It sustained him through the difficult years following his return from the Vietnam War. It provided a memorial for those he lost. And it gave him a voice he wouldn’t have had otherwise.

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