Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 2
Publication: 2013
Pages: 320
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Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 2 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 John McManus (September Hope: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far), Mary Troy (Beauties: A Novel), William Trowbridge (Poet Laureate of Missouri, Ship of Fool), Destinee Oitzinger (Art Director of National Veterans Art Museum), and Tom Cushman (Muhammad Ali and the Greatest Heavyweight Generation). The winners and finalists are spotlighted in the front of the book.
The anthology is the second in an annual series published by Southeast Missouri State University Press in cooperation with the Missouri Humanities Council’s Veterans Projects and the Warriors Arts Alliance.
“The stories and poems of service and sacrifice are essential in understanding what has so broadly been termed ‘the American experience.’ For me, Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors is required reading and worthy of a thousand tears.”―St. Leger Monty Joynes, veteran, Vietnam
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Winners of the Warriors Anthology Writing Competition:
Essay Winner: Jay Harden for “My Metal Mama”
Essay Honorable Mentions: Jason Arment for “Grim” and Gerardo Mena for “How to Build a War Hero”
Poetry Winner: Ryan Smithson for “Babel”
Poetry Honorable Mentions: Danielle Sellers for “Talk” and Amanda Hilles for “Taps”
Fiction Winner: John Mort for “Pitchblende”
Fiction Honorable Mentions: Kathleen Toomey Jabs for “Acts of Contribution” and Rolf Yngve for “Pointed Fair”
Photography Winner: Sheree Nielsen for “Dear Kindred Spirit”
Photography Honorable Mentions: A. Sean Taylor for “National Training Center” and Amanda Cherry for “Ft. Leavenworth Cemeteries 279”
Interview Winner: Jay Harden for “Interview with a Land Girl”
Interview Honorable Mentions: Phyllis A. Robeson for “Interview with a Warrior” and Jan Morrill for “Warrior Marriage”
Contributors
Reunion: The Circle of Remembrance by Ruth W. Crocker
Vietnam and PTSD: Finally an Explanation by Michael J. Boyle
PTSD . . . The Reason for His Outbursts by Michele A. Boyle
Giving Veterans a Voice―April 2013 Interview by Sylvia Ney
Charlie Is Stealing for Home by Bruce Sydow
impact by Chris Wubbena
In the Valley of Lions by Randy Brown
My Time in Afghanistan: The Softer Side of War by Nancy Lacore
Highway of Death by Jonathan Travelstead
Chiaroscuro: A Reflection on the Light and Dark of Life by Lilah Pearce Contine
Birds of War by Monica Agnew-Kinnaman
Kindred Spirit by Sheree Nielsen
What’s it like . . . over there? by Matt Wilson
Last Patrol by Monty Joynes
Long Days’ Journey into Light by Charles H. Brown
Dog Tags
Little Lead Omens
War Squared by Tim Leach
You Never Forget Your First by Levi Newman
Baptism by Fire by Andy Anderson
Prisoner of War by Ryan Smithson
Unfinished Business by Carl Palmer
Cub Scout Camping Trip
Escort by Jarrod L. Taylor
Making Jello by Marcia Upchurch
Tulips in Early Spring by Ashley D. Wallis
Memorial Day by M.K. Sukach
Remember Me
Turning the Table
The Height of Fear in the Shadow of Death by Robert Robeson
Registered Letter by Joseph R. Carvalko, Jr.
Petrichor by Donna Bachler
John Young Funeral 167 by Amanda Cherry
Still Human
Raging River by Jay Harden
Veterans Coming Home
The Colonel’s Brain by William Childress
Hope Chest by Charity E. Winters
She Ain’t Just a 2nd Lieutenant by Kerry “Doc” Pardue
Woman Marine by DeVonna R. Allison
Land of the Free (Haircuts) by Charity Tahmaseb
Boogie with Chesty by Pamela Foster
Birthday Party by Eric Chandler
Babylift by Gerald R. Wheeler
Afghan Eyes
My War: Afghanistan 2012 by Nicholas Watts-Fernandez
Kids on the Street of Kabul by A. Sean Taylor
One Thousand Cuts of Healing by James Hackbarth
Harder by Cara Hobbs
Interview With An Old Soldier by Annette Armellino
Bald Eagle by Aaron Horrell
Marble Heroes by Oren Hammerquist
My Home Is the Navy by Amanda Hilles
Hoss’s Letter
The Only Home by Levi Bollinger
Suzy Q. by Curt Scheafer
An Outsider by Jimmy Castellanos
Snipe
Offroad IVs by Gerardo Mena
Infantry TA-50 at 11pm by Daniele Cunningham
Pixie by Gary Ives
A Band of Brothers by Jerry-Mac Johnston
A Midnight Forest Patriot by Timothy E. Wolfe
By the Dawn’s Early Light by Les Thompson
festive skies by Fred Rosenblum
The Hunters’ Tales by James C. Stacey
After the Snow by M.E. Hope
Two Brothers by Luther Jett
Storm in the Graveyard by Jason Sansburn
Ibuprofen Avalanche by David S. Pointer
Last Day in Cambodia by Marc Levy
Moments: The Beginning―The End by Dan Bradford
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