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As You Were: The Military Review, Vol. 23

Autumn 2025 | ISSN: 2374-3816


Fiction

“Knock” by Allison Whittenberg

“The Worm Dieth Not” by Gordon Laws

“The Nest” by Robert B. Miner 

“Apples for Tom” by Amy B. Logan 

“Hold Baggage” by Tim Brown

“Our Red Toyota Paseo” by J.M. Green

“After White Flags” by Dane Sawyer


Nonfiction

“Out in ‘Nam” by River Schumann

“My Cup Runneth Over” by Mike Strickland

“First Combat” by Donald Masselli 

“When Life Throws You a Curve” by Tanya Whitney

“Can’t Quit, Won’t Quit” by Stanley C. Ross

“Dirt Bag Lieutenant” by Nancy Stroer

“Plastic Boy” by Claire Fron

“Field Manual: Browning M2” by Edward Vidri 

“Let That Be a Lesson” by Sid Macken

“Out of Uniform” by S. Jay Holz 

“Trajectory’s End” by LA Enck


Poetry

“Writing During War” by Frances Wiedenhoeft

“To Any Civilian” by Frances Wiedenhoeft

“V.A. Hospital” by Louis Faber

“F-86 Sabre Jet” Stephen Barile

“Mizan” by Earl Weigelt

“In Between” by Earl Weigelt

“Toasting from Warm-up to Stirrups” by Daniel W. Ross

“Meditations on a Too-Small Hat” by N. Jed Todd

“Half a Person” by P. J. Hughes

“The One Who Picks Up” by P. J. Hughes

“Grease Grate” by Joey Damiano


Artwork

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“Before the Fall” | Nichole Montgomery
“On the Way” | Jenifer Follman
“The TEWT (Tactical Exercise without Troops)” | Paul Riley
“An Oath Fulfilled” | Darren Lapsley
“An Oath Fullfilled (Photographic Series)” | Darren Lapsley
“Mask” | Lisa Corrigan
“Helo Girl” | Scottie Kersta-Wilson

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
Sarah Maples

 

Cover design by Tif Holmes

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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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