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As You Were: The Military Review, Vol. 9

Autumn 2018 | ISSN: 2374-3816

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Fiction

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“Dirt Man” by A. Elizabeth Herting

“Meal, Combat, Individual” by Lawrence Morgan

“Day One” by Robert J. Mendenhall

“Safe at Home” by Steven Miller

“Service” by Aramis Calderon

“Hanging Up Is Hard to Do” by Jessica Manchester-Sanchez

“Anatomy of a Scream” by Christopher Overfelt

“Scare in the Air” by Judith Clayman

“An Exercise in Discipline” by Rodney Norman

“Night Mission” by Michael Jennings

“Losing Friends” by Ryan Stovall

“Nga Means Beautiful Girl” by Jim Hasse

“Walking Point with a Short Stick” by Ken Roy

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Non-fiction

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“The Abyss Stares Back” by Glenn Petersen

“Veteran in You” by Mary Kinard

“Coming Home” by Steven Miller

“Music” by Ron Riekki

“The Rocket Man of Iwo Jima” by Patricia Hamilton

“The Siamese Fighting Fish” by Tina Lampman

“¡Viva La Gloria!” by Craig Velez

“The Night I Invaded Canada” by Joel Brender

“Blue World” by Joel Brender

“Check. Your Move, Boredom” by Daniel Hurley

“Love, Jake” by Nicki Shellenberger Lies

“Quiet City” by Byron Breese

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Poetry

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“Maneuvering an Army” by Faith Harron

“Texas Boys” by Bryan Daniel

“For My Father” by Michael McAndrew

“Sabre Rattling” by Andrew Thornebrooke

“Not Every Port is Friendly” by Daniel Edward Moore

“I Don’t Need Your Permission” by Merci McKinley

“The Battle” by Stephanie A. Inman

“KBR Detail” by Ashely Romero

“Metal Rain” by Ken Roy

“Downtime” by Andrew Calin

“His Touch” by Ben Weise

“Storm-Tossed” by Edward Ahern

“Normandy” by Nicholas Stamates

“Visitor” by Dennis Underwood

“Outside the National Cemetery” by Han-Jae Lee

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Managing Editor – Fiction
Daniel Buckman

Managing Editor – Non-Fiction
Brian Mockenhaupt

Poetry Editor
Randy Brown

Associate Editors
Susannah Nesmith
Antony Daly

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Copyright 2018, 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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