Expendable: The Enduring Life of Wartime Ephemera Design Director Gary Mills “The fame, therefore, of her virtue shall never die, and the immortals shall compose a song that shall be welcome to all mankind in honour of the constancy of Penelope.” Homer, The Odyssey Figure 1: Original Cover of "His Service Record" I embellished this volume's otherwise routine table of contents (TOC) structure by adding an image of a WWII artifact I’ve treasured for years, my Uncle Roy’s WWII scrap book. I had scanned and digitized the entire document following interviews conducted across three days while visiting with Roy and Aunt Annie at their farm in July 2000. My original intent was to place this artful cover at the center of the TOC. Its simulated leather-tooled appearance is striking, giving the fragile paper booklet some gravitas. Note the floral patterns nestling the military service insignias and the red, white, and blue framing and flag accents. The tan color is time’s patina on the once white cardstock (Figure 1). After writing a short piece about how this WWII artifact connected to my family, I had planned to call it good. Fortunately, my initial show-and-tell concept soon turned into a deeper dive into the surprising influences of this WWII participatory publication. As I examined each page of the scrapbook, I was struck by the fact that this was more than a textual and visual synopsis of my Uncle’s time in the Army (1943-1945). It was equally, if not more so, a multimodal expression of his wife Annie's resilience and determination at a time when it was common practice to ignore or downplay women’s wartime contributions. Her handwriting is literally on every page as the primary curator and archivist. She painstakingly mounted paper corners on pictures and newspaper clippings to stitch them with glue to each page. Importantly, it was Annie's subtle, but striking, addition of "and wife" (Figure 2) to this shopworn patriotic formula that caught my eye. It was her “I was here” declaration that motivated further study of participatory genres and narratives. Ultimately,Annie inspired my own (I was here) alteration of the original cover placed on the journal's TOC. My hope was to make the image reflect a clear invitation to all contributors to leave their mark not only within their own works but also have the design of the journal itself support the need to hear from the widest range of voices, especially given the quality, breath, and timing of this volume. All this started research into participatory publications and the surrounding narratives that allow them to operate, if even for a brief time. I needed to know more about the narratives that potentially influenced Annie’s selection of genres (Figure 3) for inclusion in the scrapbook. My impulse to participate in my own way reveals the complex contexts, layers, and purposes surrounding this multimodal, multi-perspective, and multi-purpose text. Figure 2: Annie's Addition of "and wife" to the Standard Narrative This text encourages agency but it also enforces specific scaffolding and constraints. It leans heavily into the established, national-level patriotic narrative that was planted during WWI and then expanded during WWII. In this sense, Annie was navigating a layered look into how these different stories, perspectives, and purposes aligned, conflicted or struggled to fit neatly within "His Service Record." In this case, she opted to modify the template. Annie is critical to the activation of this hybrid genre, which requires an understanding of a whirlwind of influential narrative fragments. Ultimately, my response to this ephemeral artifact, and its full purpose, is even more fragmented, resulting in the hybrid genre you see here. Figure 3: Samples of different genres and formats in "His Service Record." I invite you to check back on this section in the coming weeks each time you visit the site. Inspired by the serialized works of old, I will add to this over the rest of the year. The material in the scrapbook and the narratives surrounding its creation rapidly got out of hand. Even so, I plan to share more about participatory texts and the top-down narratives that create complimentary and contrasting responses from the bottom-up voices behind the fragments in the scrapbook. ARCHIVES / FOLIOS TOC

EXIT WOUNDS: A Conversation with Lanny Hunter by Donald Anderson Actionable Intelligence from Lanny Hunter's EXIT WOUNDS

Front Cover Back Cover A RCHIVES RETURN TO Oliver Stone's Film Adaptation of Born on the Fourth of July: Redefining Masculine Heroism Don Kunz The Artist and the Holocaust Roger Preston The Germans are Coming! British Fiction of a German Invasion 1871-1913 Joseph S. Meisel

Art of Terry Graff Intimate Look at the VFW

Front Cover Back Cover A RCHIVES RETURN TO Responsibly Inventing History: An Interview with Tim O'Brien Brian C. McNerney From Avignon to Catch-22 David M. Craig Mostly Nothing Happens W. D. Ehrhart All She Can Eat (poem) Andrew Benson Representations of the Resistance in World War II France Rosemary P-Z Clark Book Reviews M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America by H. Bruce Franklin Prisoners of Culture: Representing the Vietnam POW by Elliott Gruner Voices of the Vietnam POWs: Witnesses to Their Fight by Craig Howes US by Wayne Karlin Philip K. Jason Receptions of War: Vietnam in American Culture by Andrew Martin Matthew C. Stewart Tower of Secrets: A Real Life Spy Thriller by Victor Sheymov Lori Davis Perry Wilfred Owen's Voices: Language and Community by Douglas Kerr The Great War and the Missing Muse: The Early Writings of Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon by Patrick J. Quinn Steven Trout

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Front Cover Back Cover A RCHIVES RETURN TO The Atomic Test Poems of Paul Zimmer John Gery Military Machines and Nuclear Accident: Burdick and Wheeler's Fail-Safe David Seed Artistic Truth, Historical Truth: The "Fraction" Film and the Falklands War Paul MacKenzie Commentary The Life of a Bomber Co-pilot David M. Mazurowski Love in the Trenches: Images of Woman in Mailer's The Naked and the Dead Sheryl A. Mylan Book Reviews Patriots in Disguise: Women Warriors of the Civil War by Richard Hall Edith A. Disler The Paradise of Bombs by Scott Russell Sanders Tracy Santa

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Nine Dialogues: Conflict in Context BENJAMIN BUSCH UKRAINE This final image is, like the first one, a poster in Odesa. Black and red. It’s also, like the war protest sign in Kyiv, meant for Americans. “russia is a terrorist state.” It was September 11th that launched the US into 20 years of distant inconclusive war. But Ukraine wants us to remember how we felt on September 12th. © 2023 Benjamin Busch I’m forever grateful to Adrian Bonenberger and his wife Iryna, who inspired and organized my first mission to Ukraine just days after the invasion. I arrived to air raid sirens on 3 March 2022 with Adrian and Matt Gallagher to create a civilian defensive combat academy outside the city of Lviv under the thin auspices of the City Council. For two weeks we trained 60 volunteers together: lawyers, construction workers, business owners. I returned twice more as a photographer thanks to Matt who recorded each trip in 3 revelatory essays for Esquire Magazine . I can never thank my wife and daughters enough for supporting my ventures forth into the unknown, leaving them to worry and cover for my absences. This final image adds yet another layer for us since we all deployed to the desert wars after 9/11, Adrian to Afghanistan, Matt and I to Iraq. Unlike Edward Wilton, age 22, who died fighting for Ukraine, we came home. My great thanks also to Thomas McGuire for seeking out this work, and to Gary Mills for his sublime design of the cover, index, and this entire folio. RETURN TO GALLERY ENTRANCE

A RCHIVES RETURN TO Front Cover Back Cover John Huston's The Battle of San Pietro Greg Garrett To Send Forth (poem) Joseph T. Cox Literary Resources of the Vietnam War John S. Baky "I'll Have to Go Down to Hell First" (interview) A Saipanese WWII Veteran Recalls the War Elizabeth Drumwright Ghazales (poem) G. S. Sharat Chandra Commentary John Morano Anthony Arthur War Memorials: From Antiquity to the Present by Alan Borg A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Action over Europe in World War II by Harry H. Crosby Captain Hook: A Pilot's Tragedy and Triumph in the Vietnam War by Captain Wynn F. Foster Countdown! 35 Daylight Missions Against Nazi Germany by Fred Koger Book Reviews by Matthew C. Stewart, Douglas Foster, Patricia L. Skarda & Lawrence Clayton