MCWS 1 – 9
Eighteen years after Desert Storm,
a Marine revisits
“The Highway of Death.”
By R. Richard Brown
I’d Like to Introduce You to....
An expectant mother and Marine writes a letter to her unborn child.
Memoir by Stacy Atkinson
The Perp has a predilection toward pretty women. Will Investigator Charles take him down?
Memoir by David Charles
Country girl meets Military boy - Will their families love them, too?
Memoir by Nancy Whitworth
Breakfast in a coffee pot, twins - well, not quite - and a Master Blaster.
Memoir by F.P. Siedentopf
Poetry by Bernard Haagensen
The Joys & Personal Prices We Pay in Military Service
Is service worth the sacrifice?
This Korean War Veteran has his say.
Memoir by Jack Hayes
Reflections of a Marine’s Mother
Her husband served more than 20 years in the Marine Corps - does this mother have to let her son go, too?
Memoir by Marty Ellard
The teenaged member of a military family remembers a difficult move with her family.
Memoir by Caroline Brown
Marines encounter insurgents.
A True Account as Told to
David Charles
A Marine contemplates motherhood and duty in the moments following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
By Sondra Meek
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A Vietnam Veteran recalls his first experience at a VA hospital. By Moe Haagensen.
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A mortarman engages in his first combat mission in Vietnam.
By Moe Haagensen
In Vietnam, the first combat
Marine Air Control Squadron is emplaced, along with a fantastic club, a new club manager, and the roots of many traditions for the MACS Pack.
By F.P. Siedentopf
"Let Me Take You on a Sea Cruise"
On his way to Vietnam, a Marine shares life on a troop ship.
By F.P. Siedentopf
During the Vietnam War, a young Air Force bride explores Guam.
By Nancy Whitworth
A young Marine shares why
she enlisted.
By Stacy Atkinson
A Marine shares her struggle to earn
a degree while serving on active duty.
By Stacy Atkinson
A Vietnam Veteran recalls visiting an orphanage in-country.
By Gerard Boe
A Marine and mother
addresses her daughter.
By Shana Willoughby
A recruiter shares a hard day
making the numbers.
By David Charles
A hard won confession from Mogan David. By David Charles
A Marine investigator finds a thief. By David Charles
A Marine investigates the death of an infant.
By David Charles
A retired Marine considers his son’s first firefight in Iraq.
By David Charles
A civil service employee recalls moments of life and death connected by a dream.
By Yvonne Green
A Marine remembers the childhood that made him tough.
By A.M. Yallum
A Marine wife recalls the early days of her career in chemical sales.
By Vivian Bikulege
A Marine remembers growing up with her Foreign Service family By Charlotte Brock
A Marine finds solace while working in a military mortuary in Iraq.
By Charlotte Brock
Published in The Gettysburg Review, Autumn 2008 and anthologized in Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks from Vietnam to Iraq, edited by Lisa Bowden and Shannon Cain.
A Marine shares her experience living in Tent City, Iraq.
By Charlotte Brock
Behind the scenes in a war zone.
By Charlotte Brock
A civil service employee profiles a public servant and their marriage.
By Kathryn Parker
A Korean War Veteran recounts a shipboard battle and liberty in the Bay of Aden.
By Jack Hayes
Published in The Graybeards,
Vol.21, No. 3.
A Korean War Veteran shares a valuable lesson.
By Jack Hayes
A young officer must form a defense for a criminal during the Korean War.
By Jack Hayes
A Civil Service employee
loses her mother to cancer.
By Melissa Ellis
A Marine wife discovers
saying good-bye never gets easier.
By Monica Greer
