My Trip to Catalina

by Jonathan Craig

Prose


Combat Nursing

by Louise Eisenbrandt

Prose


The Turret Guard

by Jack Tompkins

Sketch


Retail Blues

by Lynn Norton

Poem


Crab Story

by William Perry

Prose


Writing Really Does Help

by kim gwinner

Array


Prisoner of War

By Francis Cresser, Army

Writing Type: Prose

For 13 months, I was held as a POW in a German prison camp. The rules of the Geneva Conference were followed and I was not abused. They thought at first that I was Jewish but were finally convinced by my dog tags that I was a Roman Catholic.

When the Russians came, they moved us, in a blizzard, across the Austrian border to Moosburg. We stayed there for several months until we were liberated by General George S. Patton and then sent to France. Eventually, the good old U.S.A. became our permanent residence.

In Moosburg, the French POWs were right beside us on the other side of the barbed-wire fence. I threw food at them. A German officer pointed a gun at me. Because of this incident and his behavior, I thought that I would not live to be liberated.

Notes: Writing Aide/Typist: Rose Fournier

The Gates of Nothingness

by Ben Hawkins

Poem


Our Lonely Death

by George Nolta

Poem


Solitude by the Sea

by William Anderes

Poem


A Knock on the Door

by Diane Wasden

Prose


The Turret Guard

by Jack Tompkins

Sketch


Stones River

by StevenMiller Miller

Prose