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Fifth Army

Posted by Joseph Zeppetello | Mar 25, 2016 | Creative Nonfiction

Dad was with the Fifth Army in WWII. He volunteered because that is what you did back then. He was...

Tunneling Forward: Remembering the Iraq War through the Poetry of Hugh Martin

Posted by J. Scott Brownlee | Feb 9, 2016 | Book Reviews

The Stick Soldiers by Hugh Martin BOA Editions Ltd., 2013 ISBN-10: 1938160061 ISBN-13:...

Bitter Memories: The Fall of Saigon

Posted by Tom Glenn | Feb 9, 2016 | Creative Nonfiction

Last Days By 27 April we were, by dint of lying and deception, finally down to just the three of us, me and my two communicators, Bob and Gary. None of us had slept through the night for longer than we could remember, and our...

Bitter Memories: The Fall of Saigon

Posted by Tom Glenn | Feb 9, 2016 | Creative Nonfiction

Disclaimer Required by the National Security Agency: The information presented in this article is...

In a Soldier’s Hip Pocket: Realities that We Must Remember

Posted by Nick Sweeney | Dec 4, 2015 | Creative Nonfiction

Our last post centered around fiction–i.e., escape literature–that a select group of...

Tales from the VFW

Fifth Army

Tunneling Forward: Remembering the Iraq War through the Poetry of Hugh Martin

Bitter Memories: The Fall of Saigon

Bitter Memories: The Fall of Saigon

In a Soldier’s Hip Pocket: Realities that We Must Remember

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