Parenting as a Disabled Veteran

Matthew Spira
The Daily Kerfuffle
5 min readDec 9, 2019

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Author and Children

I got out of the APC
to take a piss
sometime before dawn
the world lit on fire.

Your father murdered people, my wife — now, my ex-wife — told our children. Well, no. Not exactly.

Parenting is hard enough without trying to integrate veteran experiences into the process. What do you tell your children about…

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Matthew Spira
The Daily Kerfuffle

Just a middle-aged dude doing middle-aged things. Poetry repository: matthewspira.org. 1st collection, The End of the Rainbow, on sale: http://amzn.to/32Kkt3d