Editor’s note: These were the winning submissions in this year’s Patriot’s Pen and Voice of Democracy contests, which are presented by the Reedsburg VFW Post 1916 and the VFW Post 1916 Auxiliary.
Ara Grada won the Voice of Democracy Award.
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