Away for the holidays
Subtitle: the Veterans' Writing Group San Diego County
By: edited by J. Randall Davis
Contributors: Veterans' Writing Group of San Diego County
Publisher: VWG Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: San Diego]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
ISBN-13: 9781537684611
Subjects: Christmas stories; Christmas; Literary collections; Veterans' writings, American; Histoires de Noël; Noël; Anthologies
Description: "Away for The Holidays is a collection of stories written by veterans in the Veterans Writing Group San Diego. Each shares a story of celebrating holidays-- that time of family, food, friendship and relative safety-- far from those they love. Their stores are heartwarming and heart-rending, funny and frightening as they recall Christmas' spent on the battlefields of World War II, Vietnam or Kandahar. For the civilian reader, these under-the-helmet stories reveal the everyday sacrifices, camaraderie and pride of our military. For those who have served, these stories will bring back memories of being young and away from home for the holidays."-- Amazon.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Gail Chatfield; title: Disneyland was a long way away / Jack McDaniel; title: 12/23/1969 / Terry Severhill; title: Come on home, all is forgiven / William Swanson; title: Silent night / Charlie Wyatt; title: Christmas on Ile Nou in the South Pacific / Dolph Brostrom; title: Daddy's in his Navy suit / Shirley Turner; title: Christmas crossroads / Glen Foss; title: Fear not / Richard B. Hayward; title: Two more missions down, nine months to go / Jerry Watson; title: A hopeless holiday / Bud Parson; title: White wall Christmas / Robert Caudill; title: The smiling Christmas viper / Thomas Calabrese; title: I remember it like it was just seen / Garry G. Garretson; title: Nam Xmas hope...NOT! / Dante Puccetti; title: A blurry Christmas / Chuck Rabel; title: Christmas 1971 / Ron Pickett; title: Christmas in Hawaii / Joe Snyder; title: Pictures worth a thousand words / Terry A. Moon; title: Hiding from the monster / Ramon Garcia; title: Welcome home / Garry G. Garretson; title: A war: holidays will never be the same / Stacey Thompson; title: Shared sacrifice / Jack Autrey; title: Authors' biographies; title: Afterword.