Hello. I am Veronica Keefer. Your June 1999 issue was sitting on our table one morning while I was eating breakfast. I love to write poems and I'm always looking for ideas! I was looking at the cover and I just started blurting out a poem. I thought you might like to hear it. I also thought you might like to know that this was a very inspiring cover and it touched my heart.

War In Yugoslavia by Veronica Keefer, age 10 Gettysburg PA Here a pure white dove flies by. Tears of blood in her eye. To a thorny branch she clings. Her song of sadness, death, and love. Bloody people lie around. With a flower placed gently in one's hand. Buildings a-fire. Bombs a-flying. We wanted to make peace. But instead we made war. We wanted to save lives. But instead we killed. Here a blood stained dove flies by. Tears of blood in her eye. The thorny branch to which she clings is slipping, slipping, slipping. Slowly she is falling, falling, falling.

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