As You Were: The Military Review, Vol. 14

Spring 2021 | ISSN: 2374-3816

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

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 

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

Artwork

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

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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