by Joseph Miller In a sudden, staggering second I heard an explosion. It seemed like my company outpost was finally being mortared effectively, but I only heard soldiers laughing instead of diving for cover. I walked out of a meeting with my company commander, looked over a trash heap at my driver, Daniel Shadowens, and couldn’t help…
Military Experience and the Arts, Inc. is proud to announce the release of its eighth publication since our start in 2011. The Blue Falcon Review, Vol. 2 features the extraordinary literary fiction of six veteran writers. Their stories range from the cities of Iraq to the jungles of Vietnam, spanning multiple generations of military experience in…
by David Chrisinger “Weep, darling. Weep…and then, tomorrow, we shall make something strong of this sorrow.”–Lorraine Hansberry, “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” When he was discharged from the Marine Corps in 2006, Mike Liguori knew he had changed. “My reactions to the violence of Iraq coupled with multiple near death experiences caused an immense…
“That sound. That groan chasing a clap. It hit me a second later. The shock wave knocked me on my back and my helmet cracked against the pavement. Bits of dirt and gravel rained down on my face. I couldn’t hear a thing.” – Micheal Pitre, Fives and Twenty-Fives One of the most recent Iraq…