Contents
Volume 16:1&2
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From the Editor’s Desk
Donald Anderson
vi
Memoir
WJ ‘Jim’ Hunter
From Coastal Command to Captivity,
introduced by Allan Hunter
1
Major Richard C. Sater Notes from a Journal: Afghanistan, 11 Sept 2003-7 Apr 2004 151
Fiction
Ron Sandvik
Falling With Style: The 17th Draft of a Videoplay to be Produced
Upon My Death and Played For My Children
42
Gary Mills
from At All Costs
56
Wayne Karlin
The American Reader
104
Tim Parrish
Orderly
119
Terry P. Rizzuti
Willis
187
Lucy Bucknell
The Kite
190
Melinda Braun The Cost of Living 192
Pam Ullman
No Safe Distance
211
Poetry
Dale Ritterbusch
Three Poems
35
Dana Gioia
Four Poems
51
Mary Elizabeth Lang Two Poems 79
Kyle Torke Two Poems 83
Thomas Dukes Writing Daddy 84
Suzanne R. Thurman Point of View 145
Marlene Hanna Quicksand 148
Paula Panzarella Desert Rose 149
Jeffrey C. Alfier Paleo Warrior at Blackwater Draw 246
Rawdon Tomlinson Two Poems 247
Shelley W. Moore The First Woman Marine 250
Jim Simmerman
At the Peace March 252
Critical Essay
Jackson A. Niday, II A Rhetoric of Trauma in 9-11 Stories:
A Critical Reading of Ulrich Baer’s 110 Stories 59
Edward Gillin Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Old Soldier of
The Country of the Pointed Firs 86
Dorlea Rikard Patriotism, Propaganda, Parody, and Protest:
The Music of Three American Wars 129
Marcia Phillips McGowan “A Nearer Approach to the Truth”:
Mary Borden’s Journey Down a Blind Alley 198
Casey Clabough Confronting Traumatic Anxiety:
William Manchester’s Goodbye, Darkness 221
Mark Dollar
Ghost Imagery in the War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
235
Personal Essay
Jeff Loeb
Brisance 111
Commentary
W.D. Ehrhart Carrying the Ghost of Ray Catina 40
Glenn Leinbach Ed Wood: Wounds, War, and Friendship 255
Lori A. Davis Perry
Women at the Front: American Nurses
261
Recall Roster
Dana Gioia
This Man’s Army by John Allan Wyeth, Jr.
269
Editor’s Choice
Lori A. Davis Perry
Brave Enemies by Robert Morgan
275
Reviews
Dismantling Glory: Twentieth-Century Soldier Poetry
281
Honoring Sergeant Carter: Redeeming a Black World War II Hero’s Legacy
286
The Vietnam War in History, Literature, and Film
288
Guts and Glory: The Making of the American Military Image in Film
292
Billy Mitchell
294
Crossing the Sauer: A Memoir of World War II
296
Armoured Guardsmen: A War Diary, June 1944-April 1945
297
In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier’s Memoir of the Eastern Front
300
Love After War: Contemporary Fiction from Viet Nam
303
Depictions and Images of War in Edwardian Newspapers, 1899-1914
306
Crossing the River: Short Fiction by Nguyen Huy Thiep
308