Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 5
Publication: December 4, 2016
Pages: 244
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Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 5 presents essays, fiction, poetry, interviews, and photography by military-service personnel, veterans, and their families.
The volume also sponsored a veterans’ writing competition, judged by Dr. Adam Criblez (director of the Center for Regional History, Southeast Missouri State University), Fred Lynch (photographer, Southeast Missourian newspaper), Terry Lucas (co-executive editor of Trio House Press, son of WWII veteran, and author of poetry collections If They Have Ears to Hear, In This Room, and Dharma Rain), Dixon Hearne (author of Delta Flats: Stories in the Key of Blues and Hope, From Tickfaw to Shongaloo, and Plantatia: High-Toned and Lowdown Stories from the South), and Dr. Susan Kendrick (associate professor of English and chairperson of the Department of English at Southeast Missouri State University). The winners and finalists are spotlighted in the front of the book.
The anthology is the fifth in an annual series published by Southeast Missouri State University Press in cooperation with the Missouri Humanities Council’s Veterans Projects. See submissions guidelines here.
Cover photo Always Time For Chai by A. Sean Taylor
Contributors
Award-Winning Writing
Essay
“Section 60”—winner
Jarrod L. Taylor
The Massillon Boys
Ken McBride
The Forgotten War: A Personal Reflection on the Korean War
Leonard Adreon
Photography
Always Time For Chai—winner
A. Sean Taylor
Innocence Reflected
Jarrod L. Taylor
Forgiven Too
Journey Carolyn Collins
Poetry
Questions Raised by Black Scorpions—winner
Bill Glose
Runaway Slave
Bryan D. Nickerson
First Blood
Milton J. Bates
Fiction
A Bird—winner
Tessa Poppe
Into Dust
Kyle Larkin
Bottle Rockets and Bad Memories
Jason Arment
Interviews
90 Minutes—winner
Caleb Nelson
Interview: Preserving a Dying Legacy
Casey Titus
Interview with Major (R) Jonathan Silk
David Chrisinger
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Selected Writing
Essays
A Case of Sodas and 5 Dinks
Carl T. Yates
Walking in My Dad’s Sneakers: How Exercising Together Helped Me Know My Marine Dad
Casey Cromwell
Coward Or Hero
Hal O’Leary
Unboot Camp
Jay Harden
WWII Veterans Marched in Protest in 1946
Marilyn K. Smith
A Memorable Medevac Mission and Moment
Robert B. Robeson
Armistice
Susan Correa
Bobby & the Pole
Rod Martinez
Government Girls
Mary Pelts
Poetry
toward a poetics of lessons-learned
heavy blanket cover fire
Charlie Sherpa
KABOOM
Quagmire
Charity Winters
The Dead (No. 3)
Pat O’Regan
The Church Ruins at Quang Ngai
Art Elser
How to Use Your Arms
Abby E. Murray
Full Bleed
Benjamin Busch
Action Heroes
Bill Glose
Come Back to the World
Bryan D. Nickerson
Orange
Caleb Nelson
Self-Portrait #5
Chuck Von Nordheim
Life Flight
Derek Handley
Hill 471
Fred Rosenblum
Before Crossing into Iraq
Gordon Kippola
Two of Us
James Hugo Rifenbark
There Is a Time
Jay Harden
Gunfight
John Rodriguez
Out of
John Thampi
Escape from Guantanamo
Jonathan Tennis
Keep Calm
Kanesha Washington
Gun Baby
Kent Walker
Sergeant Jimmy
Leonard Adreon
Café in the Desert
Lucia Eclipse Roberts
The Path I’ve Chosen (Four Months in Fallujah)
Paul Wellman
Any Soldier
Randall Surles
Land Mine
Response to W. S. Merwin’s “Unknown Soldier”
Rob Jacques
End of Watch
Ruth M. Hunt
Aching Head
Stacey C. Moss
Grace in War
Stacey Walker
Empty Boots
Susan Spindler
Molon Labe
Shigé Clark
P.O.W.
Where I Left Right Left
Takia “Judah” Parham
Trespasser
Terry Edwards
[PTSD] On Some Dark Night
Terry Severhill
The Letter
Tessa Poppe
Soldier’s Bottle
Valerie E. Young
A Contract Flight from Kuwait International Airport
Zachary Lunn
National Cemetery
Thomas H. Roussin
Fiction
Triathlete Wannabe
Brent E. White
A Break from the War
Jarrod L. Taylor
One Dollar Ride
Jay Harden
Shooter
Jeff Bateman
Buffalo Soldiers
John LoSasso
Just Another Old Man
Michael E. Cook
The Army’s Debt
Randall Surles
Interviews
Who Conquers Then?
Jay Harden
Black Hawk Bob: Interview of Command Sergeant
Major Gallagher at his home in Savannah, Georgia, in
March 2004
Bob Johnson
Photos
Happy Valley
Ronald C. Mosbaugh
NISMO Pearl Harbor
Travis Klempan
Future Hero
Valerie E. Young
Selfie in Iraq
Training Iraqis to Fight ISIS/ISIL
A. Sean Taylor
Members of Company A
James Hugo Rifenbark
Iraq Before the Storm
Iraq From Above
Jonathan Tennis
The soldier isn’t the only one who has a sacrifice to gift
Lucia Eclipse Roberts
Contemplation
Sheree K. Nielsen
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