Steven Bates, USAF, has put together a variety of his poems written through his career and deployments as well as his personal life and suicide attempts. It is his hope that somewhere in this book one of his poems will strike a chord in another person and help him or her through a very tough or precarious situation in their life and help them to also realize they are not alone in their struggle. His poems are merely about things seen and heard, by himself or others, throughout his life as he wore his beret, thus they are, simply, Reflections of a Beret.