Vietnam, 1969 The world appeared like a ripple in a puddle- a Jell-O jiggle spreading across dark green jungle water.…
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Interview with Tom Keating, Author of ‘Yesterday’s Soldier’
Andria Williams for The Wrath-Bearing Tree: I was honored to read Tom Keating’s memoir, ‘Yesterday’…
New Nonfiction: “Underground” by Mark Hummel
In my childhood, television was a great unifier, for there existed a limited choice of three television networks, dis…
New Fiction from Mike McLaughlin: “What Could They Take from Him?”
After four months of not getting shot, not stepping on a mine, not taking a fragment to the neck or through the eye, …
New Poetry from Scott Janssen: “Bottle Tree”
On my first visit I askedA stock question about Whether you’d been in the military. Marines, nineteen sixty-six, you …
New Fiction Review: Matthew Komatsu On Matt Gallagher’s ‘Empire City’
As Avengers was wrapping up last year, I mentioned how excited I was to see the finale to a friend, who responded wit…
New Nonfiction from Charles Stromme: “The Army Profoundly Regrets”
1972 I was back from a year of flying helicopters in Vietnam. The Army gave me a make-work job at Ft. Riley, Kansas, …
Dr. King’s Final Dream
We recently witnessed the 50th anniversary celebration of the famous 1963 “March on Washington”, which wa…