In the center of Kyiv there’s a small section of lawn pierced with miniature flags, each with a name hand-written on it. They’re mostly Ukrainian, of course, the light blue haunting in their thousands, but there are Polish, Belarussian, British, and American flags appearing as impurities. When I first arrived in Ukraine 6 days after the invasion, American veterans were in the Polish airports, aimless in most ways, dissatisfied by the wars America had given them in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. They headed toward fire as members of the International Legion, private militia groups, and formal Ukrainian units. Edward Wilton went all the way to his death, like 34 other killed fighting so far, finding, I hope, in Ukraine’s defense, something worth dying for. © 2023 Benjam in Busch Outside Lviv is the Lychakiv Cemetery. It’s swollen with war dead, spilling beyond its old walls into the Field of Mars as quickly as men can dig new graves. Hundreds of national and military flags sway, the space feeling like it’s made of shredded cloth. Each burial has a raised wooden box above it for flowers and candles, portraits of the fallen tacked to temporary crosses. What I found so powerful was their informality, just family photos from dressers and bedrooms. They were rarely presented as soldiers, just people who had been loved, often shown with their pets. This soldier had something in his eyes that spoke to me, a young seriousness matched by his Doberman. © 2023 Benjam in Busch

Table of Contents Volume 30, 2018 COVER ART FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK Donald Anderson / The Arrogance of Firepower AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT Jonathan McGregor / "Between history and a hard place": D. F. Brown's Ghost of a Person Passing in Front of the Flag and Benjamin Hertwig's Slow War Ross Gresham / Robert Olen Butler's Perfume River CRITICAL ESSAYS H. Spencer Beaumont / Art as Revolutionary Propaganda in David’s The Death of Maret Oscar Mardell / Greener Pastures Jeff Sychterz / Poetry, the Iraq War, and the Ethics of Trauma Jason A. Higgins / Through “Star-Spangled Eyes”: Fortunate Son and the Problem of Resolution Guilherme Meyer / Enabling Impossibility Paul Petrovic / Beyond Appropriation: Arab, Coptic American, and Persian Subjectivities in Brian Turner’ s Here Bullet , Phil Klay’s Redeployment , and Elliot Ackerman’s Green on Blue Shane A. Emplaincourt / La Chambre des officiers and Recapturing the Evanescent Memory of the Great War’s Gravely Disfigured James Austin Everbeck / Gold Stars on Bleeding Scars: The Cult of the Veteran vs the Cost of War in Fallon’s You Know When the Men Are Gone Charles Hunter Joplin / The Poet’s Corpus: Meter, Memory, and Monumentality in Wilfred Owen’s “The Show” ARTWORK Brandon Lingle / Messages without Writing: A conversation with Atiqullah Shahid FICTION Benjamin Woodside Schrier / Bohemian Roulette Brian O’Hare / Nothing Earth Shattering Ramiro Hinojosa / Field Manual Holly Auten / Collision Joseph Bathanti / The Crescent Katherine Schifani / The Breath of Allah CREATIVE NONFICTION Russell Halvorsen / Cold, Cold Water POETRY Veronica Schuder / Two Poems Paul Z. Panish / Pines—Fort Lee, Virginia Amy Lynn Reifsnyder / Me and the Marine James F. Connolly / The Tet Offensive Nels Hanson / Two Poems Rawdon Tomlinson / “Post traumatic growth”: W ith My Brother on the North fork of the Red River Wanda Frazier / In the Zone Olivia Garard / Good Kill Hugh Martin / Two poems Norvin Dickerson / Two Poems Marissa Glover / Three Poems Jeremy Grant / Leave-Taking Marsha Mathews/ Strategic Survival Tobi Alfier / Everyb ody Rides Lady Geraldine Joon K. Shim / i walk to stay aliv e Newt Ronan / Two Poems Ed Meek / Powder Blue Robert Pawlak / Hypnos and Thanatos Michael Casey / JJ Visits the Hooch Jeffrey Alfier / Tripoli s.g.t. grasmuck / Three Poems Robert Hedin / Lakehurst, 1937 Peter Venable / Enough Jordan Nate / Shells from Oversea Dale Ritterbusch / Where We Are Svetlan Beggs / She-Child, Stalingrad, 1942 Alex Vartan Gubbins / A Rainy Veteran’s Day INTERVIEW Matthew Sarda / Waiting and the Intermediary: A Conversation with Elliot Ackerman Nicole Jerr / A Conversation with Suzan-Lori Parks PERSONAL ESSAY Lana Spendl / No Firm Ground Tad Tuleja / Brotherhood of the Sea: A Sailor’s Code Alisha Erin Hillam / Golden Acorn MEMOIR Kenneth R. Timmerman / Hungry Guns, Exploding Cats Clayton Bradshaw / Five-Sentence Biography Pat Gault / Edible Plants of Alaska Élie Paul Cohen (translated by Jessica Levine) / Army Doc: Mission Afghanistan Patrick Mondaca / Allawi Jeffrey Loeb / Resurrection Dianna Marie Cannizzo / The Land of the VA COMMENTARY Krystal Mcguiness / Laren McC lung’s Inheriting the War David M. Jorgenson / Cavorting with War FILM REVIEWS by Jonathan Lighter Land of Mine The Zookeeper's Wife Dunkirk (2017) and Dunkirk (1958) Journey's End BOOK REVIEWS by Samantha L. Solomon / David A. Rennie / Matthew Stewart The Vest Pocket Kodak & the First World War by Jon Cooksey Points of Honor: Short Stories of the Great War by a US Combat Marine by Thomas Boyd Men at War: What Fiction Tells Us About Conflict, from Iliad to Catch-22 by Christopher Coker A RCHIVES RETURN TO

A RCHIVES RETURN TO Front Cover Back Cover W. D. Ehrhart Foreword W. D. Ehrhart Soldier-Poets of the Korean War William Childress Soldier's Leave, 52 Korea Bound, 1952, 53 Letter Home, 54 The Soldiers, 55 Shellshock, 57 Combat Iambic, 58 Death of a General, 59 The Long March, 60 The War Lesson, 61 For My First Son, 62 Trying to Remember People I Never Really Knew, 63 Burning the Years, 65 Rolando Hinojosa The Old Army Game, 75 Rookies Under Stress Acting Tough, 77 Friendly Fire, 78 The Evening Shift, 79 A Sheaf of Percussion Fire, 81 The Eight Army at Chongchon, 83 Chinaman's Hat, 85 Rear Guard Action I, 87 Rear Guard Action II, 89 Rear Guard Action III, 91 Rest Due and Taken, 92 Possession for All Time, 94 The January-May 1951 Slaughter, 96 Until Further Orders the 219th Field Is Firing Blind, 98 Night Burial Details, 100 Boston John McCreedy Drinks with Certain Lewd Men of the Baser Sort, 105 Incoming, 108 Above All, the Waste, 113 New Battery Position, 114 Brodkey's Replacement, 117 One Solution, 119 Liquor Ration, 122 Jacob Mosqueda Wrestles with the Angels, 124 Visiting Hours, 126 Fit for Duty, 128 Old Friends, 232 Kobe Station, 135 Nagoya Station, 137 Brief Encounter, 140 At Sonny's and Tsuruko's, 142 At the Aoyama, 144 Hiro Watanabe, 145 South to Nara, 146 The Last Day, 147 Up Before the Board, 149 A Matter of Supplies, 151 This Is Where We Came In, 153 Vale, 155 James Magner, Jr. Elegy for the Valiant Dead, 161 The Man Without a Face, 163 Christ of Battle, 164 Zero Minus One Minute, 166 To a Chinaman, in a Hole, Long Ago, 167 Soldier of the Night, 168 Repository, 169 The Rayer of the Former Infantryman, 171 Instruction, 172 Reg Saner One War is AJ Wars, 176 Leaving These Woods to the Hunters, 177 LiMe Rituals, 179 Re-runs, 180 They Said, 181 Flag Memoir, 182 William Wantling Korea 1953,191 The Korean, 193 Without 'Laying Claim, 194 I Remember, 195 Pusan Liberty, 196 Sure, 198 The Day the Dam Burst, 199 The Awakening, 200 Keith Wilson Echoes, Seafalls for Heloise, 205 The Captain, 206 . . . ganz in Waffen , 207 Guerilla Camp, 209 The Singer, 211 The Circle, 213 High Noon, 215 The Girl, 218 Guns, 219 Waterfront Bars, 220 The Mistress, 222 December, 1952, 224 The Flag, 226 Combat Mission, 227 Cargo, 228 Commentary, 230 Truce, 232 The Ex-Officer, Navy, 234 The Poem Politic 4, 235 Memory of a Victory, 237 Corsair, 238

A RCHIVES RETURN TO Front Cover Back Cover Flying the Old Marauder over Nazi Germans Jim Colvert Patriotism and Treason in A Farewell to Arms George Monteiro Nick Adams and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Ronald Smith The Progress of Patriotism and Biography: The Battle of Trafalgar in Southey's The Life of Nelson H. George Hahn Fact, Fable, and the Fantastic: Approaches to the Novel of War in the Francophone Literature of Algeria Sara Poole "Whatever Else, I'd Loved It There Too": Persuasive Startegy in Michael Herr's Dispatches Douglas Sun The Bernard Fall Archives at the John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, MA Leslie Holland Healing the Soldier in White: Ceremony as War Novel John Getz Blackness and the Unmanning of America in Dave Rabe's Streamers Owen Brady "My Chickamauga" by James Hughes Meredith as an introduction to "Chickamauga" by Ambrose Bierce Conversion / Killing Time in Bosnia / Paradox / Remembering Leyte: "D" Day Quintennial--June 6, 1995 (poetry) Paul Elisha not about war (poetry) Tony Moffeit Degenerate Art Show Maggie Jaffe Book Reviews The Wars We Took to Vietnam: Cultural Conflict and Storytelling by Milton J. Bates Anthony Arthur An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us by James Carroll Steven Liparulo Four Years with General Lee by Walter H. Taylor and edited by James I. Robertson Rodney Rice Women and the War Story by Miriam Cooke Alison Weir aftermath: an anthology of post-vietnam fiction edited by Donald Anderson The Other Side of Heaven: Post-War Fiction by Vietnamese & American Writers edited by Karlin, Khue, and Vu The Vietnam War in Songs, Poems, and Stories by H. Bruce Franklin Ellen Pinzur Vietnam War Literature: An Annotated Biography of Imaginative Works about Americans Fighting in Vietnam edited by John Newman Walter Jones Gentlemen Volunteers: The Story of Ambulance Drivers in the Great War, August 1914-September 1918 by Arlen J. Hansen Charles Clerc The Editor's Desk Donald Anderson Miscellany Occasional Papers Planned, Seeking Contributors, Edward de Vere Studies Contributors

Table of Contents Volume 26, 2014 From the Editor’s Desk Donald Anderson / You Can’t Come Home Again: Phil Klay’s Redeployment Special Feature Roxana Robinson / The Warrior and the Writer Editor’s Choice Kathleen Harrington / Sparta: a conversation with Roxana Robinson Author Spotlight Matthew Hefti / The Long Walk: a conversation with Brian Castner Jesse Goolsby / The Book of Duels: a conversation with Michael Garriga Memoir Wayne Karlin / Excerpts from the Memoir of Tr ầ n Văn Thủy John Balaban / Saying Goodbye to General Giap David A. Willson / Tet, Seattle, February 1968 Jason Arment / A Bridge to Nowhere Deborah DeFrank / The Jacket Gloria Dyc / The Ceremony Nolan Peterson / Scars Marc Levy / Klinic in Zurichberg Robert Joe Stout / The War in Words Michael Selzer / A Jew Goes to Berlin Matthew Komatsu / 31 North 64 East Lisa M. Sita / At the Fosse Ardeatine Fiction Andrew Slater / The Cold Elliot Ackerman / Hometown Heroes Gerard J. Carisio / Resolved Steven McGregor / By the Aqueduct Dennis Kennedy / Underway Replenishment Frank Scozzari / Too Old for War J. Alan Montrose / Orders J. Malcolm Garcia / What Do You Do? Artwork Giuseppe Pellicano / Left. Left. Left, Right, Left Ed Drew / Afghanistan, Combat Zone Tintype Poetry Michael Casey / deploy deploy Michael Shorb / Gods of War Joseph Bathanti / Two Poems William Mullen / Eight Turners Kerry Rawlinson / In Flanders’ Shadow (plus artwork, original photos by Nathan Jones) Amanda Nowakowski / The War Brandon Courtney / Malaria Tent, Pleiku, 1964 Kya Reaves / A Woman at War Adrie Kusserow / Two Poems Stephen Gibson / WWII Rebecca Morgan Frank / The Last Time I Saw Manila Brad Kavo / The Cliffs of Colleville-sur-Mer E.M. Schorb / The Bosian Cherry Kevin Boyle / Unruh John Guzlowski / Two Poems Brian Pals / Something about an eyelash Bonnie Maurer / The Poem Stands on its Head by the Window Tim Lynch / Living in the Killing Fields: In the Tank to Phnom Penh Charlie Bondhus / Two Poems donnarkevic / Burying the War Dead Benjamin Goluboff / The Fairy Fleet at Fredericksburg Jesse Morales / Map of Leaving Majda Gama / Two Poems William Varner / Three Poems Matthew Boulay / Two Poems Herbert Englehardt / Five Poems Marilyn Johnston / Final Flight Adam Graaf / Blackwater Bridge Creative Nonfiction Nicholas Mercurio / Lucky Lyra Hilliard / When I Have Your Wounded Matthew James Babcock / My Nazi Dagger Thomas Simko / The Long Goodbye Paul Van Dyke / A Sliver of Blue Personal Essay Michael Caligaris / Shoebox Trish Gwynn / Mine Micah Fields / Zeh Mutaasif Yum J. Scott Smith / Poly Trauma Critical Essay C andice L. Pipes / The Impossibility of Home Thomas Vargish / Postmodern Authority Travis L. Martin / War, Witness, Modernisn and David Jones’s Subversive Voice John Savoie / Sniping, Psalming, Saving: American Soldier, Biblical Warrior, and the Mysteries of Salvation in Saving Private Ryan Ian A. Isherwood / “To fly is more fascinating than to read about flying”: British R.F.C. Memoirs of the First World War, 1918-1939 Jonathan Snyder / The “Make-Believe” War: Necessary Fictionalizing in Alexander Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War Alison M. Johnson / Sam Hughes as a Second Generation Trauma Victim in Bobbie Ann Mason’s In Country Christopher Barker / Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon and the Fear of Death in War Pritha Kundu / The Anglo-Saxon War-Culture and The Lord of the Rings: Legacy and Reappraisal Ben Townsend / On the Front Lines of an Empire: The Rhetoric of Poetry of the First World War Barbara Kowalczuk / My Lai’s “Fucking Flies!”: The Stigmata of Trauma in Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods Pinaki Roy / Sidney Keyes: The War Poet “Who Groped for Death” Sara Deutch Schotland / Soldiers of Conscience: The Conscientious Objector as (Anti) War Hero Kevin Foster / Deploying the Dead: Combat Photography, Death and the Second World War in the USA and the Soviet Union Elizabeth Richards-Rivenbark / The End of Innocence: The Effects of the Civil War on Children in the Paintings of Eastman Johnson Commentary David Buchanan / They Call it the Hajji Mall Julien Mathonnière / War tales that blur the lines but extol the truth Levi Bollinger / A Broader Scope Katherine Plichta / The Most Vital Phenomena Kristin G. Kelly / “This Is a Language Made of Blood”: Speaking of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Strip Malls Book Reviews Film Review A RCHIVES RETURN TO

Front Cover Back Cover A RCHIVES RETURN TO Sacrifice and Dehumanization in Plievier's Stalingrad Joan F. Adkins Historical Interpretation or Ambush Journalism? CBS vs Westmoreland in The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception (1982) Peter C. Rollins Randall Jarrell's Poetry of Aerial Warfare Alex A. Vardamis

During the Soviet consumption of Ukraine, Russians were moved in and Ukrainians were moved out in an attempt to homogenize the population and dilute nationalism in the former independent states. It was both a forced colonialism and a relocation program, Russian the new language for all. For 79 years, there was intermarriage and cultural erasure. With the invasion, old resentment for anything Russian even reached the dead. In Lychakiv Cemetery, portraits on some Soviet graves with Russian names were chipped in retribution for Ukrainian soldiers being buried nearby. True “defacing.” They are, once again, photographs transformed, partially destroyed, and I, as photographer, take them as new portraits because something has changed, my eyes witness to their second disappearance. © 2022 Benjam in Busch Beginning in March of 2022 I began to see these eye strips pasted on walls in the backstreets of Lviv. They appear in groups, never in the same arrangement, soldiers eyes. By my second trip, they’d all begun to peel and became even more haunting. Nameless, they stare at us. I deployed to Iraq twice as a Marine. I know the look. Whoever sees these eyes should feel their own safety or endangerment measured in comparison. As the western cities try to cleanse reminders of the war from public spaces, street art like this is vanishing. There’s a message in the deterioration of these thin portraits too. A warning about forgetfulness. They remind me of a line from Blade Runner : “If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes.” By my third trip they were almost all flayed off by weather, an estimated 70,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed. © 2022 Benjam in Busch

Front Cover Back Cover A RCHIVES RETURN TO The Black Soldier in Vietnam War Literature and Film Perry D. Luckett Barcelona Alfred Kern Joseph Heller's "'Catch-22' Revisited" David M. Craig Warrior-Bishops in La Chanson de Roland and Poema de mio Cid Earl R. Anderson Vietnam War Literature: a guide to resources at Colorado State University John Newman and Julie Wessling