At 13 years old, Thomas Haugh was given an assignment to choose a poem and analyze its themes. He picked “The Battle Flag at Shenandoah,” a piece about Civil War soldiers marching into combat, and connected it to the only thing on his mind. “The theme applies to me because I know that I need to put in work and time if I want to start for my AAU basketball team,” he wrote. “I sacrifice time with friends and downtime at home in order to be a bette…
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