As You Were: The Military Review, Vol. 22

Spring 2025  ISSN: 2374-3816


Fiction

Thanksgiving Dinner” by JJ Harrigan 

Nothing Can Stop the Army Air Corps” by Anne Rogers Poliakoff

The Room” by Betsy McLaughlin

D Fac” by Timothy O. Davis 

When Eric Dreams” by Arnaldo Luis Colón Vargas


Nonfiction

Oizys and Achlys” by Tonee Mae Moll 

Drafted” by Beth Keeley

Monoglot” by E. B. Scott

Beyond the Horizon” by Don Mateer

Kissing Frogs” by Patricia Grenelle 

Thoughts on My Wallet” by Anna Campbell

I Was a Good Soldier, Then I Was Nothing” by David Condrey


Poetry

Attention” by Chuck Sweetman

Witt” by Becky Faber

Memory of America” by Richard Stimac

Desert Winds, Iron Hearts” by Tigran

Halfway Between War and Whore” by N. Jed Todd

Right and Wrong” by N. Jed Todd

Snake Pilot, 1983” by Shay Wills

Goodbye, Colonel” by Shay Wills

Lost Photos” by Shay Wills

Awaiting the Cessation of Cannons (July 3, 1863)” by Philip Bartram

Reflections on Independence Day” by William C. Blasengame

Cassandra” by Megan Kemple

And if I fail” by Dora Mokora

Will You Remember” by Dawn Price

The Memory of a War” by Tabitha Baylor


Artwork

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Editor-in-Chief
David Ervin

Managing Editor – Nonfiction
Brian Mockenhaupt

Poetry Editor
Randy Brown

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

Cover design by Tif Holmes

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