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I attended too many homecomings like this . . . Read More

Tags: home, coming, church, soldier, bells

After all these years, I still remember the briefness of my youth. Stolen before I could savor and relish moments and memories of innocence. Vietnam changed everything, including me. "I remember the night I arrived in Saigon, Vietnam. A soldier boy, not yet a man. Lost among the crowds of… Read More

Tags: lost, vietnam, boy, soldier, little

VICTOR PETER NOVAKOVICH, OBITUARY DECEMBER 14TH, 2004 EULOGY WRITTEN AND DELIVERED BY GREAT NIECE SHARON MARY IVANOV MCPHEE titled.., "MY SANDS OF TIME" Read More

Tags: family, obituary, soldier, great, uncle

When I left Edinburg in 1968 at the age of 18 on a Greyhound Bus to San Antonio to join the Army, I was not just leaving behind my childhood and my childish dreams, I was also headed to adulthood, or so I thought. Unfortunately, I found that adulthood doesn’t… Read More

Tags: vietnam, soldier

In the mist of the fading wisps of smoke that drapes the darkening expanse of jungles and swamps along the desolate road to hell, he stands alone, grasping his M-16, depleted of rounds and hot to the touch. He is alone. The last man standing. Read More

Tags: war, vietnam, soldier, m-16

I felt much like Jimmy Olsen, the fictional young photojournalist working for the Daily Planet, but I was in Vietnam, roaming the backlands and bush of the Mekong Delta as a combat journalist. Read More

Tags: vietnam, soldier

Will the next war come? My poem. Read More

Tags: fight, enemy, soldier, defend, secretly

Poem / Poetry

February 08, 2021

Narrative of a soldier who suddenly discovers that he is on the wrong side. Read More

Tags: angel, soldier, bridget-kennedy, wrong-side

"There’s only one rule in combat that really matters to an Infantryman: kill or be killed." From Iraq, to Afghanistan, and to Iraq again, a veteran of the Vietnam-era recounts his personal wartime experiences after signing back up in the Army to join in America's war on terror. Read More

Tags: war, combat, enemy, soldier, insurgent

A soldier of the Empire reflects on a battle - and his life in the legions Read More

Tags: death, war, history, rome, soldier

A poem about a battle and the mighty Time. Read More

Tags: death, time, battle, warrior, soldier

one night in the life of a soldier at the border. the mixed feelings of love for country and family when one ws loosing all his hopes. Read More

Tags: military, war, soldier, gunshots, ghazi

A story set in wartime about family, loss and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of an imperfect world. Read More

Tags: loss, family, war, battle, soldier

Short Story / Flash Fiction

August 02, 2020

Reads: 271

Comments: 4

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Cover image: pixabay.com. Read More

Tags: army, tunnel, soldier, instincts

The story is centered on a young soldier known as Anyao. It tells the story of his attempt to commit suicide, his conversation with a wandering writer he saved, and how he finds the meaning of his life before being killed in an atomic bomb hit. Read More

Tags: war, soldier, wasteland, atomic-bomb

Short Story / Poetry

February 28, 2020

Reads: 360

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Short story I made up a while ago about a soldier trying to get justice for his mother. Read More

Tags: forgotten, soldier

Poem / War and Military

January 26, 2020

Reads: 484

Comments: 2

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: death, war, soldier, battlefield

Short Story / Flash Fiction /

December 28, 2019

Reads: 777

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

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In the tradition of Rashomon, three soldiers are interrogated about a dragon incident, giving three very different perspectives. Read More

Tags: fantasy, dragon, soldier, investigation, roshamon

I bound this work for those soldiers whose dedication make freedom for every home here. When I write this down, my feeling script the effort of peacekeeping mission in the failed states. I have written the title 'My People Wake Up' as if every human being on this Earth feels… Read More

Tags: life, people, soldier, guardian

Tags: war, vietnam, sniper, soldier

Book / Action and Adventure

October 09, 2019

Reads: 546

Comments: 2

The Booksie Classic House

In 1763, Bombai, a young girl named Natrisha falls in love with a British soldier John. As her family and his fleets are both against it. Read More

Tags: girl, india, soldier

The one thing I didn't want to hear, I heard. Read More

Tags: soldier, ferry, kidnappers

With God in command, no one can go wrong. My poem. Read More

Tags: god, enemy, soldier, capture, directing

The bravery of a soldier Read More

Tags: peace, soldier

Poem / Poetry

April 21, 2019

Reads: 352

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

For all those who have defended the country.My poem. Read More

Tags: tomorrow, soldier, brave

A defender and a hero. Read More

Tags: soldier, protector

Short Story / Flash Fiction

March 13, 2019

Reads: 633

Comments: 7

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: children, lost, soldier

Chapter 1. The Beginning May 22nd, 1941, 5 A.m. At the London Naval Shipyard, Officers and sailors of two Battleships were being loaded and prepared to go into combat to hunt and destroy the Nazi battleship Bismarck. But one sailor never got his chance to fight because a spy working… Read More

Tags: mystery, soldier

Michael Potts is evacuated from London to Devon during World War II. He is looked after by Mr and Mrs Shadrick, a middle aged couple who live on a farm. Mrs Shadrick is a serious woman with a list of house rules all of which Michael is determined to obey,… Read More

Tags: war, mystery, soldier, short-story, evacuation

Short Story / War and Military

January 04, 2019

Reads: 770

Comments: 4

Shelves: 2

The Booksie Classic House

A post-apocalyptic fiction short story Read More

Tags: post-apocalyptic, soldier, tomb, cemetary

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