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As You Were: The Military Review, Vol. 14

Spring 2021 | ISSN: 2374-3816

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Fiction

“Carrying the Bear” by D.B. Cox

“Message Below the Message” by James Morena

“Tracers” by Phil Robbins

“We, Grits” by J.G.P. MacAdam

“Apogee and Terminus” by Mike Cardwell

“The Fuck-It Bucket” by Mark R. Clifford

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Nonfiction

“An American in Nagasaki” by Laura J Peterson

“Clusterfuck” by Victor Pogostin

“Fireworks on the Fourth” by Milt Mays

“Excluded and Ordered” by Karen Lethlean

“A Midnight Ride” by William Gritzbaugh

“The Lie” by Ben Weise

“On the Other Side” by Rebecca Locklear 

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Poetry

“USS Fletcher” by Karen Green

“Uncle Ollie in the Ball Turret” by Billy Thrasher

“Remnants of a Cemetery near Al-Asad, Iraq” Loretta Tobin

“The Body on a Bench in Front of the Chapel” by Loretta Tobin

“Unprocessed Thoughts at 1330 Kuwaiti Time” by Nathan Lim

“The Distance Away, Crumble” by Mervyn Seivwright

“Retrospective” by Michelle DeRose

“Fantail” by Mikayla Nelson

“Requiem for a Wild Weasel” by Dave Parsons

“504th Parachute Infantry 82nd Airborne 3rd Platoon Hill 1205” by Juleigh Howard-Hobson

“Penelope and I” by Ellen E. Kazimer

“Hey Joe” by Ashley Rebhun

“La Cita Bar” by Jacqlyn Cope

“French Kiss” by Charise Hoge

“Bullshitter” by Lily Jarman-Reisch

“Military Moves” by Jennifer Carpenter

“Letters from the Helmet II” by Victoria Dym

“Funeral Flag” by Susan Cenci

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Artwork

(Click on thumbnails for full-sized image and description)

"P-3 Sub Hunter" | George Clever
“P-3 Sub Hunter” | George Clever
"Victory Run" | Anthony J. Braun
“Victory Run” | Anthony J. Braun

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Editor-in-Chief
David Ervin

Managing Editor – Fiction
Daniel Buckman

Managing Editor – Nonfiction
Brian Mockenhaupt

Poetry Editor
Randy Brown

Associate Editors
Melinda Canny
Tammy Ortung
John Dailey
Sarah Maples

cover design by Tif Holmes

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© 2021, Military Experience and the Arts, Inc.

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Who We Are

Military Experience and the Arts, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose primary mission is to work with veterans and their families to publish short stories, essays, poems, and artwork in our biannual publication, As You Were: The Military Review, periodic editions of Blue Nostalgia: The Journal of Post-Traumatic Growth and others. To the best of our ability, we pair each author or poet that submits work to us with a mentor to work one-on-one to polish their work or learn new skills and techniques.

Our staff is based all over the country and includes college professors, professional authors, veterans’ advocates, and clinicians. As such, most of our services are provided through email and online writing workshops.

All editing, consultations, and workshops are free of charge. Veterans and their families pay nothing for our services, and they never will.

Under our Publications tab, there are more than two dozen volumes of creative work crafted by veterans and their family members as well as a virtual art gallery. Our blog posts feature short pieces that cover a wide range of opinion editorials, literary reviews, and profiles on veteran artists and writers.

Please consider spending some time navigating our site and reading and seeing the fine work of veterans and their families from around the globe.

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