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PROMPT SUBMISSION 02: Sarah Rossetti

"Tell a story about a time when you noticed something that no one else around you did." It’s an early Tuesday night, no one is out drinking ton...

PROMPT SUBMISSION 01: Javier Rodriguez

“I’m gonna say something. Are you listening?” Nothing is forever. Those days that burned and those cold nights didn’t last forever. Those long t...

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Stop Digging

LOST IN A BLIZZARD; THE DOOR SHUTS Endless. As vast and empty as the snowy white landscape of a blank word processor page. Blinding white light w...

Know your Job... and your Role

I was recently reminded that I have only been in the fire service for 3 years. I wish it was from my own introspection, but it was brought to my a...

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Hue 1968 [REVIEW]

Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam ........................................... “The politics of the war didn’t concern m...

In Love...&War: The Anthology of Poet Warriors

ORDER This collection is the experience-the knowledge of those who have trained for, and more often than not engaged in war to bring it back to...

Steps Ascending: Rise of the Unarmed Forces [REVIEW]

The Global War on Terror (GWOT) has attached many stereotypes and stigmas to certain MOS’s and units of the military as the public becomes more ...

Storm of Steel [REVIEW]

“Trench fighting is the bloodiest, wildest, most brutal of all ... Of all the war's exciting moments none is so powerful as the meeting of two St...

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Matterhorn [REVIEW]

“Shame and honor clash where the courage of a steadfast man is motley like the magpie. But such a man may yet be merry, for Heaven and Hell have e...

The Other Reasons (Part One)

This is the first post in an indefinite series originally posted on The Talk-On. Everyone knows that 9/11 was the horrible mechanism that initiated...

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American Pastime

It was midway through the deployment, probably sometime in November. The weather was changing quickly, and it was that perfect fall evening where b...

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Purple Heart Affairs: Symbolizing a Hero

I have been hurt and I have been healed. Each are a transformation from the known to unknown. I have heard the quiet echoes of my thoughts deep wit...