Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 3
Publication: November 2014
Pages: 232
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Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 3 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 Daniel Simon (editor-in-chief of World Literature Today), John Mort (Soldier in Paradise and The Illegal), Geoff Giglierano (historical consultant), Bradley Phillips (professor of photography at Southeast Missouri State University), and Colin Halloran (poet, veteran, and teacher). The winners and finalists are spotlighted in the front of the book.
The anthology is the third 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
For information about how to submit click here
Winners of the Warriors Anthology Writing Competition:
Essay Winner: Lisa Miller for “Still Falling Snow”
Essay Honorable Mentions: Diane Cameron for “Iambic Pentameter and the Meter of War” and Jay Harden for “My Mother of All Letters.”
Poetry Winner: Dominika Wrozynski for “Retrieval.”
Poetry Honorable Mentions: D.A. Gray for “Whistling Past the Graveyard” and Paul Hellweg for “Ghosts.”
Fiction Winner: Jay Harden for “Bramble Fire.” Fiction Honorable Mentions: Katherine Bell for “The Sulphur Sink” and Frederick W. Cutter for “Something’s Wrong.”
Photography Winner: Sheree K. Nielsen for “jimmie (pier)”
Photography Honorable Mentions: Jay Harden for “For the Arc Light Fallen” and “War’s Shiny Things.”
Interview Winner: S. Lorraine Norwood for “D-Day, Korea, Vietnam: An Old Warrior Lives to Tell the Tale.”
Interview Honorable Mentions: Casey Titus for “Interview of Vietnam Veteran Jim Lewis” and Gloria Pape Caviglia for “Epiphany of Maturity.”
Contributors
Meet Jimmie McInnis–Bronze Star Recipient and Jimmie McInnis (photo) by Sheree K. Nielsen
Interview with a Warrior: The Wound that Never Heals by Robert B. Robeson
A Nickel Requiem by Amanda S. Cherry
Finally Home (photo) by Kimberly Billington
The Renegade Robinson by Elizabeth Nash
Haji-Mart and Abu Ghraib (photo) by Jeremy Warneke
The Unique and Revealing Short Timer’s Calendar of Sergeant Carl “Pig” Higgins by Tim Leach
It’s Time to Let Go by Tom Davis
Homecoming (photo) by Sean Taylor
The Corpsman by Jeffrey Paolano
Moments: Forgotten by Dan Bradford
Losing Self by Bill Glose
break down and Mutually Assured by David R. Bublitz
VA Hospital by Milton Ehrlich
Dance to the Dustoff Waltz by Paul Hellweg
Staring, Miles Away by D.A. Gray
Rat Bastard by Fred Rosenblum
sugar’s out by John Parker
London Burning 1939-1945 by Lilah Contine
I Came Back and He Did Not Belong by Charles H. Johnson
Old Friend and The RPG by Andrew R. Jones
The War Behind Closed Doors by Ashley Henley
My North Star by Bruce Sydow
don’t and left unsaid by Carl Palmer
The Boy’s Club by Charity Tahmaseb
Suburbistan by Charlie Sherpa
At 3:53 am, I wake after rolling over in my sleep by Chelsie Meredith
Launchpad Central by David S. Pointer
Has-Been Highway Sign by Domenic James Scopa
Record Keeper Of All You Want To Forget by Dominika Wrozynski
Tampa (photo) by Jeremy Warneke
Counting M-16’s a Part in My Sheep by Doug D’Elia
Safe Place by Janelle Fila
Our Heroes by Kaleb Cintonz
My Daddy Is My Hero by Karla Chapman
Intelligence Report and Father Jacob Gets His Limp by Liam Corley
For a Dead Soldier and Small War by Richard O’Connell
A Bad Trip by Robert B. Robeson
To My Fellow Vets by Valerie E. Young
A Tribute to Anthony Loyd by Wayne Bowen
As they were and Mantra by Milton J. Bates
The Summer of the Mouse by DeVonna R. Allison
A February Raid in the War on Terror by Jarrod L. Taylor
The Wire (photo) by Sean Taylor
For the Love of One Another by Joyce Pettigrew Garcia
Fathers and Sons by Marc Danziger
Guilty Pleasures by Ryan J. Erisman
Revisiting the Person of the Year a Decade Later–23 a Day by Zachary Ryan
Buzzbomb by Arthur Weil
Inconsequential by A.D. Wallis
We Are American Soldiers Guardians Of Our Nation by Daniel Evans
An Unsent Letter by dutch franz
Crater in Mosul by Eric Chandler
Those Orange Skies of Baghdad by Jameel A. Hakeem
The Shredded Parachute: A Paratrooper’s Account of Vision and Survival in World War II Europe by Jay Hansford C. Vest
The Lady in the Gray Suit by Kathleen Palmer
Reading of the Names by Michele A. Boyle
My Night on the River by Richard Kirshen
Order of the Spur by Starlyn Lara
HQ10 by Susan Winstead
F-16 Pilot (photo)
Finally Home (photo) by Kimberly Billington
Life on the ODA by Tom Davis
My Trip to the Wall by Edmund Pieper
Going, Going, Gone! by Hugh Neeld
Saipan Invasion, June 15-July 10, 1944 by Robert A. Cunningham
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