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 | An All American Soldier  [E] Military, contest entry  |
| (5.0)  HAPPY WDC ACCOUNT ANNIVERSARY FROM "Anniversary Reviews"  Hello, Nani - Blessed Indeed, aka CounselorMom! INITIAL IMPRESSION / OVERVIEW:  I enjoyed reading your "An All American Soldier" poem every time I read it, including today. Your writing kept me riveted and I read straight through to the end every time.MORE DETAILED FEEDBACK:  Happy Writing.Com Anniversary day and month! I read this "An All American Soldier" poem of yours sometime in the past and enjoyed it, but didn't have time to review it right then, so I flagged it for an anniversary review (meaning I saved the link to it in a special "June" file.  ). I hope you enjoy this review as a celebration of your time here and find the review uplifting and encouraging. It is meant to be honest and respectful, and in accordance with WDC guidelines. I loved your poem so much. It was full of appreciation for our Soldiers, and, as a Veteran myself, I found it inspiring to read. I thought the rhyming lent a musical quality to your poem and that it was well done. My favorite line was the "Whose bravery knows no bounds," line. I loved the sentiment and the alliteration. I thought this was a perfect entry for the Honoring Our Veterans Contest (now a Challenge, still located here: "Honoring Our Veterans - Challenge" . I'm not 100% sure, but suspect that's where I originally saw your poem. If I'm wrong, and you haven't already entered it there, I encourage you to enter it there for June. I thought the "military" and "contest entry" genres you selected for this poem were appropriate matches for it. I liked that you included your line count below your poem. That reminded me that your poem might qualify for the Poetry Topic of the Month Contest too. There are several military holidays in June, including the Army's Birthday and Flag Day and she usually has a holiday option there. IDEAS TO MAKE YOUR PIECE STRONGER: In the spirit of helpfulness, and because of the requirements of a new reviewing challenge I joined recently, I have some little suggestions to make your piece stronger. If you're interested in some constructive criticism, read on. But if you aren't, no worries. Just know that I enjoyed your piece and move on to the next section. Still reading? You're brave! Yay for you!   I'd recommend adding a third genre, as we are allowed three, and people do search by genre here. Perhaps "cultural," "personal," or "experience” might be nice options to consider? There's a drop down list, as you know, because you had to use it to select “other". I don't have it memorized; those are just some suggestions. The actual list will probably be more helpful. Just to show it's not only me who recommends this, moderator Schnujo's Doing Homework  shared on the news feed in a comment on 2/21/2025 that “SM has told me, himself, that the #1 way people search for things to read on WdC is through the genre search, so if you aren't filling out all 3 genres, you are literally missing out on readers.” [On the very slim chance that you don't already know this, SM is our StoryMaster here, and definitely in the know.] If you want to see the note and scroll down to see her whole comment, here’s the link: "Note: View this Note". It might help you get more future readers if you added a thumbnail picture to your story, if your membership level allows that. Pictures are attention getting and could help your story stand out in a list of search results. I think a picture of a soldier or anything with a military theme in general would be especially nice. As I mentioned earlier, if you haven't already done so, I encourage you to enter this poem in the Honoring Our Veterans Challenge. There are now annual rewards that get better and better with more entries throughout the year. Here's the link again: "Honoring Our Veterans - Challenge" As with any review, please take what serves you and release or ignore what doesn't. CONCLUSION:  I enjoyed reading your patriotic poem again this evening, and empathized with your sentiments that you expressed in it. Thank you for sharing your time, creativity, heart, experiences, and writing with the Writing.Com community! Once again, happy anniversary day and month! I hope the year ahead is filled with blessings and joy for you!May love, joy and peace be yours in abundance, and may the Lord bless you and all that you do, during your anniversary month, and always! PWheeler   A SuperPower Reviewers Choice review!   My review has been submitted for consideration in "Good Deeds Get CASH!" .
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You responded to this review 06/03/2025 @ 1:04am EDT