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[an error occurred while processing the directive] [an error occurred while processing the directive] MISSING By Cynthia Cotten My brother is a soldier in a hot, dry, sandy place. He's missing - missing things like baseball, barbecues, fishing, French fries, chocolate sodas, flame-red maple trees, blue jays, and snow. I'm missing, too - missing his read-out-loud voice, his super-special banana pancakes, his scuffed up shoes by the back door, his big-bear good night hug. There are people with guns in that land of sand who want to shoot my brother. I hope they miss him, too. AMERICA AT WAR POEMS Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins Text copyright © 2008 Used with permission of Margaret K. McElderry, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing.