Research Catalog

Title

Proud to be : writing by American warriors / edited by Susan Swartwout.

Publication

Cape Girardeau, MO : Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2012-

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Swartwout, Susan.
• Missouri Humanities Council.
• Warriors Arts Alliance.

Description

volumes : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Overview: The anthology Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors showcases writing from military veterans and their families from across the nation, including writing about WWI and WWII, Vietnam, the Gulf Conflict, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The books also sponsored a veterans' writing competition, judge by stellar writers Mark Bowden (Black Hawk Down), William Trent Pancoast (WILDCAT), and soldier-poet Brian Turner (Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise). The winners and finalists are spotlighted in the front of the book. The anthology is the first 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 Missouri Humanities Council plans to expand the partnership to include additional organizations that are both concerned and supportive of American veterans.

Series Statement

• Partners in the writing by and about warriors series
• Partners in the military-service literature series

Uniform Title

• Partners in the writing by and about warriors series.
• Partners in the military-service literature series.

Alternative Title

Warrior arts anthology

Subject

• Soldiers' writings, American

Note

• "The Missouri Humanities Council and Warriors Arts Alliance"--Cover, vol. 1.

Contents

• Volume 1: -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Contest winners -- First day at An Khe / Monty Joynes -- Remembering Cu Chi / Edie Cottrell Kreisler -- Tap shoes / Ryan Smithson -- Rockhappy 1944-45 / Paul C Mims -- Sadr city / Jarrod L Taylor -- Desert snow / Jimmy Castellanos -- Baring the trees / Gerardo Mena -- Rewind / Carol Alexander -- Desert moon / Bill Glose -- Between wives / Jay harden -- 53 alpha / Jonah E Krause -- Soldier's two-step -- Rock called Afghanistan / Lauren K Johnson -- Ana as' fi -- On leaving for Iraq a second time / Christopher P Collins -- Bunker sonnet / Nicholas Watts-Fernandez -- Hyphenated Americans / Jan Morrill -- Little world / Chris Whitehead -- Ode to the enemy sniper / Gerardo Mena -- War is steel / Christopher Lee Miles -- In less than a minute / Russell Reece -- Distant Seitz -- Blind -- SPC Browning speaks / Levi Bollinger -- Be polite but have a plan to kill everyone you meet / Jesse Goolsby -- In the military garden of remembrance / Walter Baker -- No hero / Colin D Halloran -- What sacrifice has been / Randy Brown -- John Wayne hills / Steven Croft -- All fun and games, until / David Lawrence -- Care package -- Something else you don't need / Liam Corley -- Cleaning up our mess (October 2003) / Brian Curran -- Ride home / GuruSahai Good -- For a future believed in -- Way we were: portrait of a Vietnam veteran's grandson / Jay Harden -- Deep and free -- Baby I'm already back -- All I ever wanted / Aaron Horrell -- Transit / James Mathews -- War wounds / Sonja Pasquantonio -- Don't tell his mother / Monty Joynes -- Army mom / Sheree Nielsen -- Liberation requiem / Shaun Yankee -- Poet & the wounded warrior's return / James A Moad II -- Veteran's quiescence / Michael Sukach -- Lake serene / Bruce Sydow -- Becoming the devil / Jacob Worthington -- Flies / James Wooden -- Army issue / Leslie Harper Worthington -- Life of a superhero / Richard Van Beeson -- Cloud fishing -- Prisoners of war 1965 / Tim Leach -- Letter home from Fort Bliss, Texas, 1918 / Philip Renner -- What we leave behind / Jason Sansburn -- In the Salmon's eyes -- Furlough, May '99 / William Lusk Coppage -- Red-haired Rosie / Velda Goodgion Brotherton -- Green card soldier -- Incoming / Carl Palmer -- Smedley butler's disciple / David S Pointer -- Cost of memory / Susan V Meyers -- Search team -- Clearing a room / Bill Glose -- Moment two / Daniel D Bradford -- Sonnet for killing / Dario DiBattista -- Cargo / James A Moad II -- Tree line / Fred Rosenblum -- Sulfur and moonshine -- What's for dinner, doc? -- Picking up the slack / Jason Poudrier -- Ponytail palm Christmas / Mitch Duckworth -- Their letters / Kathleen Willard -- Just one smile / Michele A Boyle.
• Volume 2: -- Foreword -- Introduction / John McManus -- My metal mama / Jay Harden -- Grim / Jason Arment -- How to build a war hero / Gerardo Mena -- Pluck under fire: interview with a land girl / Jay Harden -- Interview with a warrior / Phyllis A Robeson -- Warrior marriage / Jan Morrill -- Pitchblende / John Mort -- Acts of contribution / Kathleen Toomey Jabs -- Pointed fair / Rolf Yngve -- Babel / Ryan Smithson -- Talk / Danielle Sellers -- Taps / Amanda Hilles -- Dear kindred spirit / Sheree Nielsen -- National training center / A Sean Taylor -- Ft Leavenworth Cemeteries 279 / Amanda Cherry -- Reunion: the circle of remembrance / Ruth W Crocker -- Vietnam and PTSD: finally an explanation / Michael J Boyle -- PTSD: the reason for his outbursts / Michael A Boyle -- Giving veterans a voice: April 2013 interview / Sylvia Ney -- Charlie is stealing for home / Bruce Sydow -- Impact / Chris Wubbena -- In the valley of lions / Randy Brown -- My time in Afghanistan: the softer side of war / Nancy Lacore -- Highway of death / Jonathan Travelstead -- Chiaroscuro: a reflection on the light and dark of life / Lilah Pearce Contine -- Birds of war / Monica Agnew-Kinnaman -- Kindred spirit / Sheree Nielsen -- What's it like: over there? / Matt Wilson -- Last patrol / Monty Joynes -- Long days' journey into light / Charles H Brown -- Dog tags / Tim Leach -- You never forget your first / Levi Newman -- Baptism by fire / Andy Anderson -- Prisoner of war / Ryan Smithson -- Unfinished business / Carl Palmer -- Cub scout camping trip / Jarrod L Taylor -- Making jello / Marcia Upchurch -- Tulips in early spring / Ashely D Wallis -- Memorial Day / K M Sukach -- Remember me / Robert Robeson -- Registered letter / Joseph R Carvalko, Jr -- Petrichor / Donna Bachler -- John Young Funeral 167 / Amanda Cherry -- Still human / Jay Harden -- Veterans coming home / William Childress -- Hope chest / Charity E Winters -- She ain't just a 2nd lieutenant / Kerry "Doc" Pardue -- Woman marine / DeVonna R Allison -- Land of the free (haircuts) / Charity Tahmaseb -- Boogie with chesty / Pamela Foster -- Birthday party / Eric Chandler -- Babylift / Gerald R Wheeler -- Afghan eye / Nicholas Watts-Fernandez -- Kids on the street of Kabul / A Sean Taylor -- One thousand cuts of healing / James Hackbarth -- Harder / Cara Hobbs -- Interview with an old soldier / Annette Armellino -- Bald eagle / Aaron Horrell -- Marble heroes / Oren Hammerquist -- Turning the table / Robert Robeson -- My home is the navy / Amanda Hilles -- Hoss's letter / Levi Bollinger -- Suzy Q / Curt Scheafer -- Outsider / Jimmy Castellanos -- Colonel's brain / William Childress -- Snipe / Gerardo Mena -- Infantry TA-50 at 11 pm / Daniele Cunningham -- Pixie / Gary Ives -- Band of brothers / Jerry-Mac Johnston -- Midnight forest patriot / Timothy E Wolfe -- By the Dawn's early light / Les Thompson -- Festive skies / Fred Rosenblum -- Raging river / Jay Harden -- Hunters' tales / James C Stacey -- After the snow / M E Hope -- Two brothers / Luther Jett -- Escort / Jarrod L Taylor -- Storm in the graveyard / Jason Sansburn -- Little lead omens -- War squared / Tim Leach -- Ibuprofen avalanche / David S Pointer -- Last day in Cambodia / Marc Levy -- Height of fear in the shadow of death / Robert Robeson -- Moments: the beginning-the end / Dan Bradford -- Offroad IVs / Gerardo Mena -- Only home / Levi Bollinger -- My war: Afghanistan 2012 / Nicholas Watts-Fernandez.

Call Number

JFE 13-1527

ISBN

• 9780988310308
• 0988310309
• 9780988310353
• 098831035X
• 9780990353041
• 0990353044
• 9780996259644
• 0996259643
• 9780997926200
• 0997926201
• 9780997926262
• 9781732039902

LCCN

2013376012

OCLC

811600786

Title

Proud to be : writing by American warriors / edited by Susan Swartwout.

Imprint

Cape Girardeau, MO : Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2012-

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Soldiers

Americans

Series

Partners in the writing by and about warriors series

Partners in the military-service literature series

Partners in the writing by and about warriors series.

Partners in the military-service literature series.

Added Author

Swartwout, Susan.

Missouri Humanities Council.

Warriors Arts Alliance.

Research Call Number

JFE 13-1527 Library has: v. 1-5

JFL 19-19 Library has: v. 6-7