The Writing Center

Momma told me not to go.

Scroggins, Taylor

I am 21 years old currently serving in the Army National Guard as a Military Police officer. I am also enrolled in the ROTC program here at state to further my military career. My major is Psychology because I want to help soldiers with problems like PTSD.


This is a poem about a man's experience being deployed and coming back home. It tells of how cruelly history can repeat it's self.




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