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As You Were: The Military Review, Vol. 21

Autumn 2024 | ISSN: 2374-3816


Fiction

“The Army Heirarchy of Needs” by Madeleine Schneider

“Sergeant Beggs” by Harry Gordon

“Alpha” by Travis Klempan

“Thrift Shop” by Charles McCaffrey

“The Roof of the World” by Tim Lynch

“Home for the Holidays” by Zhyronn Carter

“Tây Ninh” by Charles Jacobson


Nonfiction

“Crazy” by Jim DiCillo

“My Canteen” by William Gritzbaugh

“Rocket Town Lompoc” by Clara Swart

“Cradle to Graves” by Christopher L. Izant

“Playing War” by Keith Kopp

“Arriving” by Hannah Donigan

“Independence Day” by Maura Cool

“257” by Sid Macken

“The Guard Tower” by Casey Clifton

“Snowfall on Babylon” by Shane Aldridge 

“Shared Sacrifices” by Lucas Maas


Poetry

“Unrest” by Colin D. Halloran

“Thoughts on Love and War” by Colin D. Halloran

“Afghanistan” by Daniel W. Ross

“PTSD” by Oliver McKeithan

“Insight” by Michelle Carlson

“Together We Grow” by Michelle Carson

“It” by Blake Rondeau

“Another Army Poem” by Anthony Albright

“Ode to Beauty” by Jennifer McKeen Rodrigues

“November Remembrance” by S.D. Bassett

“Not on My Watch” by Jerry Staub

“Ouroboros” by Alyssa Souza

“Ekphrasis on the memory of a 23-year-old” by Sophie Dufresne

“I Retired Too” by Montoya Baylis

“Picture in a Battered Frame” by Deborah Baxter

“And Now We Stand” by Misery


Artwork

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“She Served Too” | Elizabeth Flanders
“She Served Too” | Elizabeth Flanders
“She Served Too” | Elizabeth Flanders
“Bulge” | John Bruggink
“Scramble” | John Bruggink
“One More” | John Bruggink
“The Eye of the Sentinel” | Phyllis Thomas Miller

Editor-in-Chief
David Ervin

Managing Editor – Nonfiction
Brian Mockenhaupt

Poetry Editor
Randy Brown

Associate Editors
Jerad Alexander
Jillian Danback-McGhan
Dale Waters
Beth Liecthi Johnson
Tammy Ortung

Cover design by Tif Holmes

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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