POSTED 09-14-09

$ CREATIVE NONFICTION SOUL WOUND by anne robinson THREE WARS, THREE PERSPECTIVES: Reflections and Ramblings by bob nilsson WRITING IDENTITY IN THREE GENRES Teaching Creative Writing at the American University in Dubai by jillian schedneck the ghetra for men and the sheyla for women - are headscarves more than a religious statement? What does this clothing item mean to the people who wear it? a creative writing teacher in Dubai tries to understand. REMEMBERING 9-11 BY TED “STOP GLOBAL WHINING” CORBETT, CAPTAIN USMC (RETIRED) TELL YOUR STORIES BEFORE THEY’RE FORGOTTEN cpl christopher zahn for the jet stream DISHING ON MILSPEAK CREATIVE WRITING SEMINARS - MCWS 10 begins 19SEP09! MCWS10 GUEST WRITER JOHN C. STEVENS III, MARINE & AUTHOR OF COURT-MARTIAL AT PARRIS ISLAND: THE RIBBON CREEK INCIDENT PTSD AND LOSING A JOB: 3:30AM 8-27-09 by yvette clifford the realities of ptsd in the workplace WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO FILE A VA CLAIM COURTESY OF VETERANS-FOR-CHANGE FICTION COMPANY OF ANGELS, COMPANY OF MEN by tom sheehan “I wanted to ask if it was the French girl he had spent the night with in an old farmhouse one Christmas Eve. It hung on him for a long while afterward, but I kept it all back where it belonged, in the past.” HALLOWED GROUND by kevin morgan watson “I thought I had moved past the pain, that I had somehow, over time, come to terms with Dean’s passing. But there it was again, the same pain, gnawing at me with the same ferocity as the moment I first learned of his death.” ISRAEL’S PIG by guy j. tirondola “The living reached safety and the dying were dead.” POETRY A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY by a.l. “o.a.t.s.” syor THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM translated by edward fitzgerald DOWNLOAD AT PROJECT GUTENBERG NEWS & OPPORTUNITY 194 BRICKS how you can help build a monument honoring 2nd battalion 4th marine regiment marines past and present “THE MAGNIFICENT BASTARDS NEVER FORGET” THE WALL MEMORIAL FUND LAUNCHES NATIONAL CALL FOR PHOTOS  FOR THE MORE THAN 58,000 INDIVIDUALS NAMED ON THE WALL THIS WEEK’S LINKS “PONY UP” SKETCH BY BRIAN “DIRTY” DINGESS FIGHTS ON AVIATION ART PLUS MONKEY #7 the beginning of wisdom strains of don quixote drifted from dune to dune, as though the windmill had been reinvented... but no-- it wasn’t annie proulx waxing poetic; it was just another decade of political paralysis in america. SUBMISSIONS: Send your Writing, Comments, Art, Video Clips, ETC to Milspeak Memo Share your comments on the post at the mcws blog SEND LETTERS TO THE COMPILER\\\ KUDOSORKRAP@MILSPEAK.ORG MILSPEAK MEMO NOW INCLUDED IN POETS & WRITERS LITERARY MAGAZINE LIST! YOUR PURCHASE OF THE ANTHOLOGY WILL HELP FUND THE MILSPEAK FOUNDATION MISSION AND HELP KEEP MILSPEAK PROGRAMS FREE TO PARTICIPANTS. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING MILSPEAK FOUNDATION. Contributors retain all rights to their works. ©2009 MILSPEAK FOUNDATION OOHRAH! END OF POST V4.09-14-09$ shapeimage_2_link_0