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By Marla Boone

Our local law enforcement officers are on the front lines of the fentanyl crisis. They know all too well the toll it’s taking on communities across our state.

By David Lindeman

“Lest we forget”- We had thousands in the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s.Some were from the Miami Valley of Ohio and now share their stories of Christmas day in a land that most Americans at the time couldn’t locate on a map.

By James McGuire

By Marla Boone

By David Lindeman

At recent meeting of the war memoir writing group at the Miami Valley Veterans Museum, I introduced the participants to an approach poet Anna Caters uses which I call creative non-fiction micro-fiction with American haikus. This is a rather long descriptor; however, it explains that these veterans were recording experiences from their military lives with a few words (I advised using 100 or fewer although micro can be up to 300), The story is then followed by an American haiku in which the author may express a reaction to the story using three lines of poetry. Japanese haiku use syllables in the lines as follows, 5,7,5, and usually have an image from nature. We Americans are independent rebels and do whatever we like, but we usually use three short lines.

Dear Dietitian,

Dear Dietitian,