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Short stories: Soldier tales

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    by Josh Ray

    Forever on My Conscience May 27, 2004 In 22 years of life there have been many events that changed my life slightly, culminating in the person that I am today. These events have changed my life ever so slightly, save...read more

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    by Paul Morgan

    Firing Party I'd never shot anyone before. Surprising really, because it was October 1943 and I'd been in the Army eighteen months, nearly a year in the front line or close to it: Algeria, Tunisia, Sicily and now Italy....read more

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    by Omotayo Olaoye

    War in Africa. My name is Idaogun,' which means the Sword of war. But people used to call me Ida (Sword). I am from a small village, Oke, in the western part of Africa. The story I am telling you describes how I found m...read more

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    by Lawson Tree

    trolley He sat there in pondering wonderment, or was it wondering ponderment, as he thought slightly about his peculiar peccadilloes there upon the gleaming trolley. Approaching Union, he saw her and rang the bell in...read more

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    by Josh Glassman

    Requiem For a WWII Soldier I can taste the vomit in my mouth As the whaleboats reach the beachhead. I can hear my captain yelling Over the noise of the ship and the roar of the ocean. But I cannot understand him. ...read more

  • by James Hall

    We march as one. Brothers of arms. I know not who walks beside me, I remember no-one. We are all the same, hidden by our disguise. Coated in armor that crunches in time with our mechanic steps as we reach the peak of the s...read more

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    by William Mattingly

    The Truth of War The immense pressure inside my chest neared its breaking point. Sergeant First-Class Jack Thomson to my right was the only thing keeping me going through the thick woods of Vietnam. I can remember that ...read more

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    by Ollie Middlebrooks

    Soldier of Love (To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything.) "Take it back." "Make me." I watched with something akin to horror as my boyfriend Tyler drew back his arms, muscl...read more

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    by Zachariah Langley

    When most hear the word soldier they automatically think of a man or woman who serves in the military. Growing up on the East Side, the term soldier meant something different, but still the same... By the end of the Sixti...read more

  • 10 of 82

    by Jacqueline Sanders

    The Long Road Home. He had been gone for months; now his feet could not carry him home fast enough. The dusty road that he had followed so many times as a child and as a newly married man still looked the same the wo...read more

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    by Candice Smith

    It was a cold and empty night, with the barrage of mosquitoes baring down on us the only sound in the area. How were we so sure that the plague of stinging insects were the only ones to create noise? Any other movement, be...read more

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    by Tony Santos

    Missed the boat... literally. Summer - 1984 Our first cruise of the Mediterranean was coming to a close. The USS Saratoga had a generally uneventful tour of duty. Essentially, the ship and attached airwing had such l...read more

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    by fromthegreenroom

    An Extra- Ordinary Veteran Bob Johnson was an ordinary man, as ordinary as his name. The only reason anyone would pick him out of a crowd was the fact he missed both his legs. The military tried to be kind, when the m...read more

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    by Angela S. Young

    As she rose from the baptismal waters, she saw her again. That new lady that had started coming to her church. She didn't want to talk to her because she kept bugging her to write her son. She didn't date unsaved boys, a...read more

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    by Martin Clark

    The mission was clear that day, seek out and destroy the enemy. The sky rained helicopters as the sun rose up from beneath the ocean or so it seemed. The setting was a large village outside of Mogadishu Somalia where rebel...read more

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    by Bridget Spendal

    "Knights in Sand" Night was always the most difficult; it was the darkness that allowed the quiet solitary to creep up on the men, it gave them the anonymity to permit themselves to cry. Despite the good natured pats on...read more

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    by Henry Piarrot

    Every Day is Memorial Day By Henry Piarrot "A million men cannot take Tarawa in a hundred years." - Japanese Rear Adm. Keiji Shibasaki. Just before dawn on the morning of November 20, 1943, all eight of the USS Co...read more

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    by Ann Dennis

    A Common Soldiers Tale Her voice was strained one moment and far away the next. She answered questions with short answers and didn't ask any. She only told him about his son when he asked direct questions. And change...read more

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    by Joilene Rasmussen

    Dreams of a Traitor He lay on the hilltop again-the one like an overturned kettle in France. Gunfire all around. Dead bodies, crying men... This was war. This was what he had fought to get to, what he had disobeyed his ...read more

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    by Arthur Goodwell

    The blood dripped from the eyes of the man who once saw, the man who once knew, the man who once felt, the man who was once...alive. - He didn't want to join the army, not at 19. Yet as Henry though, he knew that th...read more

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