Vietnam soldier wrote daughter a goodbye poem

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Before William Busby left for war, he wrote his baby girl a poem.

He did his best to pour onto that page a lifetime of fatherly love. It was the only message he would give her.

Lt. William Busby was shot to death in Vietnam on Jan. 31, 1968. The Henderson man was 28. His daughter, Michelle, was nine months.

For Michelle, now 49, William Busby's death left her with a grief that would unfold slowly all her life.

As a child, she knew little of her father. Her mother remarried a Navy man when Michelle was three and his career kept the family moving around the country.