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

9 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

9 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

9 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

9 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

9 years ago

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