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CLICK ON GENRE TO ACCESS TABLE OF CONTENTS POETRY  15 SEP 2011 RELEASE TRIPTYCHS poems and prose by andrew syor illustrated by henry avignon READ AN EXCERPT READ NEW POETRY BY ANDY SYOR  RELEASED LABOR DAY BY MILSPEAK BOOKS KOREAN ECHOES A COLLECTION NOT BY THE NUMBERS BUT IN ALPHA FORMATION POETRY BY TOM SHEEHAN KOREAN WAR VETERAN READ AN EXCERPT Jessica Trufant interviews the author for “The Item Live” online at The Daily Item LETTERS BY SUZANNE AUTEN NONFICTION MCWS 13’s nelly toledo animated memoir from 7JACKS essays from casey cavanaugh & dr. charles heckman military combat correspondent profile by marc yablonka ESSAYS ON “THE THINGS THEY CARRIED” & an excerpt from A FEW GOOD MEN, TOO MANY CHEMICALS an accounting of the effects of water contamination at MCAS EL TORO by robert o’dowd and tim king SOON TO BE RELEASED BY SALEM-NEWS.ORG GETTING BIN LADEN What happened that night in Abbottabad. by Nicholas Schmidle a link to the new yorker magazine article FICTION VINNIE LYMAN DALE DAY, DANNY JOHNSON, STEVEN L. RICHARDSON, SEAN BRENDAN-BROWN & NIGHTMARE IN NORWAY DICK REYNOLDS’ LATEST NOVEL AN EXCERPT JOSEPH HELLER’S SEQUEL TO CATCH-22 CLOSING TIME BOOK REVIEW BY COREY MEISLER Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. H. L. Mencken NEWS & LINKS STRATEGY PAGE great news for the military mind. photos! VLAD MILSPEAK BOOKS AUTHOR JOHN KOELSCH FIRST PLACE IN THE 2011 National Veterans Creative Arts Contest   MICKEY 6 JOHN KOELSCH’S VIETNAM WAR NOVEL FORTHCOMING 01 OCT 2011 FROM MILSPEAK BOOKS READ AN EXCERPT A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES PREPARING FOR COLLEGE where’s the monkey?  IF YOU DIDN’T FIND YOUR WORK IN THIS POST, CHECK OUT MILSPEAK MEMO POST V7.FA.11 POSTING 15 OCT - 15 DEC 2011  Enjoy! Contributors retain all rights to their works. ©2011 MILSPEAK FOUNDATION, INC. Purchase a Milspeak Books title to donate! 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MILSPEAK MEMO V7.SU.11 “déjà vu”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vushapeimage_4_link_0
 
déjà vu... beirut bombing 1983 - they didn’t let us finish the job... vietnam war 1975 - they didn’t let us finish the job... korean war 1953 - they didn’t let us finish the job... is there a pattern here? or is it just déjà vu... “Without realizing how it had come about, the combat men in the squadron discovered themselves dominated by the administrators appointed to serve them.” “There was only one catch, and that was Catch-22.... From the novel Catch-22, Joseph Heller, 1955 MILITARY CASUALTIES DOD REPORTED FOR OIF/OEF/OND READ THE FINE PRINT... OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM includes casualties that occurred between March 19, 2003, and August 31, 2010, in the Arabian Sea, Bahrain, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Persian Gulf, Qatar, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates. Prior to March 19, 2003, casualties in these countries were considered OEF. Personnel injured in OIF who die after 1September 2010 will be included in OIF statistics. OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM (Afghanistan only), includes casualties that occurred in Afghanistan only. OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM (Other Locations), includes casualties that occurred in Guantanamo Bay (Cuba), Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Philippines, Seychelles, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Yemen. OPERATION NEW DAWN includes casualties that occurred on or after September 1, 2010 in the Arabian Sea, Bahrain, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Persian Gulf, Qatar, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates. THEN READ BETWEEN THE LINES: 6100 AMERICAN LIVES LOST 45,035 WOUNDED IN ACTION 9% UNEMPLOYMENT AMONG NON-DISABLED 16.9% UNEMPLOYMENT AMONG DISABLED AND THE US GOVERNMENT CAN’T BALANCE THE BUDGET. WELCOME TO CATCH-22-2011 WHATEVER IS, IS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vuhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22_(logic)http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451626657/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0684833395&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0ZWZ8E4GCFJHNNPZH6Y9http://www.defense.gov/news/casualty.pdfshapeimage_5_link_0shapeimage_5_link_1shapeimage_5_link_2shapeimage_5_link_3
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