Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Melissa Mathis reads her poem "USCGC Waesche's Dance with Fire" while aboard the cutter in its Alameda, California, homeport, Nov. 1, 2022. Mathis was selected as the Coast Guard's 2022 Eight Bells Poem Competition winner for her poem based on the experiences and feelings of Waesche crewmembers following the damage control efforts combating a shipboard fire on Sept. 20, 2020, during the cutter's Western Pacific patrol. U.S. Coast Guard video by Chief Petty Officer Matthew S. Masaschi.
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