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Featured Essays

ya li chen

Wars Hoping

I am tired of reading and hearing about war.

What kind of things will be in war stories?  It will not be a good or exciting experience. In war, farmers lose farms and animals and parents lose children. Children become homeless and orphaned. Women are raped. There are no singing classes, no integral textbook, no smiling teacher, no hope...

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Chih Ling Hu

What a War Is

Among the young generation, it is hard to picture what a war really is. There had not been wars in the time I lived. I read about war in school only in history textbooks. I watched war events in movies. Even if sometimes someone tells me about how hard it was during the time of war, I cannot really...

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melanie lee

My Grandfather's Childhood

My grandfather’s name is Bairen Li. He was born into a very poor family. His father and mother were both farmers. They lived in Liaoning, a province in the northeast part of China. His parents have been dead since he was six years old. My grandfather’s only uncle took care of him. Although his uncle was not very rich, he...

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Adam Lewis

America's Gigantic Blunder: The Continued Occupation of Iraq

America’s Gigantic Blunder: The Continued Occupation of Iraq.



By: Adam Lewis

Professor Duvalle, Daniel
English 102.54

12/05/2006



The sun blazed down on the sweaty infantrymen as they piled into the back of the humvee grumbling and joking as they started another, in what seemed to them a series of never ending patrols. The temperature hovered around 130 degrees and the sun cooked everything in its...

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Euntae Lim

Grandfather’s Tears

Telling about the 6.25 War, (Koreans call the war 1950-1953 between North and South Korea the “6.25 War,” much like American call the 2006 attacks 9/11.) my grandfather seemed uneasy while he was stroking my head. It was in midsummer during an elementary school vacation. My grandfather held me on his lap, and he liked to tell me the history...

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cathy pham

A Vietnamese Refugee

This woman’s name is Chi Thi Pham. She is my mother and a refugee of the Vietnam War. She is a sister, a wife, and a mother. She is now 56 years old. She was only about 19 years old when Vietnam was at war with the Viet Cong, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the Americans. Her father, who is...

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Tamra Pruitt

Courage to Find Freedom

When I make my daily journey through life I do not have to experience the terrible sights and sounds of war. When I look out my window as I drive through the city of Seattle I see clear blue skies. The buildings are standing, and the people are carrying through with their business as usual. Sounds of explosion, screaming, and...

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Melissa Ries

Devoted to a Man at War

During the past few years someone very close to my heart has been involved with the war in Iraq. My older sister Jenifer is in love with a soldier. Her fiancé, Sergeant Justin Robertson of Bravo Company Tomahawks, is currently serving on his second tour of duty in Iraq. Jenifer has shared with me her first hand experiences on what...

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Matthew Sharp

The Truth About War Stories

As a veteran, I can appreciate Tim O’Brien’s "The Things They Carried" on a personal level.  A passage from one chapter in particular, “How to Tell a True War Story,” stands out in this collection of vignettes set during the Vietnam War.

   A six-man patrol climbs into the mountains to man a listening post....

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Robert Taylor

Broken Hearts: Thawing the Holy in Us

Sermon at Saint Mark’s

The Very Reverend Robert V. Taylor The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, July 30, 2006 2 Kings 2:1-15; Ephesians 4:1-7, 11-16 & Mark 6:45-52

On Thursday I was on the website of Voices in Wartime reflecting on a passage by Parker Palmer about broken hearts.ii He suggests two ways to picture a broken heart. The first is...

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julianna tesfu

Refugees

Julianna Tesfu
English 101
Professor Eichner                      

Her name is Bethelehem Gebregziabhier, and she he had been born a victim of the Ethiopian-Eritrean war. Being a mixture of both races Bethelehem was confused as to which side to be on. The violence...

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Featured Stories

David Halverson

WWII - THE ALEUTIANS

THE ALEUTIANS
by Harry T. Halverson

FOREWORD

Attu Island lies in the Near Islands at the very western tip of a concave string of volcanic islands (the Aleutians) aimed like a saber at Kamchatka Peninsula. Attu is about 800 miles west of the navy base at Dutch Harbor, which is about an equal distance westward from Anchorage. About 40 miles long...

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Matthew Sharp

Still Brave. Still Loyal.

“Honestly I can say that it wouldn’t have mattered to me what the war was about,” says Travis, a veteran of the Iraq war.  “I would have gladly volunteered to go over (or anywhere for that matter) to support the United States and my fellow shipmates.”

    Growing up on the Great Lakes,...

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