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(Portland, Oregon). St. Paul, Minnesota native Charles Auch recently received word that his poetry entry in the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival won first place. The piece, entitled Memories of Death, was a way for Auch to visualize what death means and all the emotions it entails, he said.
![Charles Auch, next to his winning category sign during the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival.](https://s3-us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/content.www.va.gov/img/styles/3_2_medium_thumbnail/public/2024-08/Photo%20for%20web%20story.png)