Adjusting Fire: Redirecting Veterans’ Verbal Energy

9 years ago

by Travis Switalski, Sr. Vietnam had O’Brien, Caputo, and about ten dozen others. World War Two had James Jones and…

Welcome to FOB Haiku: A Review

9 years ago

by David P. Ervin Randy Brown, aka “Charlie Sherpa,” released Welcome to FOB Haiku: War Poems from Inside the Wire…

I Am Travis

9 years ago

by Travis Switalski, Sr. I’m home. That’s a weird thing to think about, home. The place that you dream about…

Becoming a True Warrior

9 years ago

by David Chrisinger As far as most traditional societies are concerned, being a warrior was a noble and honorable thing.…

Keeping It Lively

9 years ago

by Michael Lund Following a Military Experience and the Arts writing seminar for military, veterans, and family this fall, Blackstone,…

On Our Next Stop In Modern War

10 years ago

By Jerad W. Alexander “I said, ‘SHOOT HIM!’” A machinegun rattles. A man dies. He does not pass away like…

The Other Side of the Gunfire: Life in a Battalion Aid Station

10 years ago

By Sean Tyler There are plenty of firsthand articles about the life of a door kicker. This isn’t one of…

Veterans’ Daughters

10 years ago

by Daniel Buckman It was a veteran’s daughter who read my first attempts at fiction, written in spiral binders at…

On Telling War Stories

10 years ago

by Jerad W. Alexander In a bar in the Poncey-Highland neighborhood of Atlanta, I sat across from a woman with…

Our Own Medicine

10 years ago

by Daniel Buckman In 2009 my fourth New York novel was circulating in paperback. I wrote and published four of…