Miltary Life
Attention!
We are looking for stories from active members of the military, veterans and military families about the fun and interesting side of the military--the kinds of stories that most civilians will never hear, but would certainly appreciate if they did. Tell us about those special actions or programs that helped a local family or community or one of your own, whether in a war zone, an overseas base or back in the States. We need stories about the lessons learned when you went out of your way to do good. And the joke you played on a comrade-in-arms (or that was played on you) that he or she also laughed at. While military history is important, it's not the focus of this book, so please do not submit detailed accounts of military operations and campaigns.
Tentative Chapter Titles:
- Boot Camp Blues
- My Best Day in the Military
- My Crappiest Day in the Military
- Perspiration and Inspiration
- Families Back at the Homefront
- Incoming!
- SNAFU
- I Can't Believe I Did That!
- R&R Hookers and Hijinks
- Paint It--Again!
- FIGMO
Updated: 2/16/2012
Deadline: Open until we get enough workable stories to fill a title.
Thank you and good luck!
SUBMIT YOUR STORY HERE
About this title's co-creators
Nelson O. Ottenhausen, a retired Army officer, is published
internationally in books, periodicals and anthologies. He also has a collection of poetry and short stories titled, Flowers, Love & Other Things.
Several of his short stories have been published and one, A Fish Story, is included in Chicken Soup for the Fisherman’s Soul. He has five novels published, Civil War II, (2004), The Blue Heron (2005), The Killing Zone: Evil’s Playground (2007), Jugs & Bottles (2009) and The Sin Slayer (2010). He is presently working on his new novel, Black Mist of the Trinity, the final book of a trilogy and Auggie, a historical novel about a young Russian girl growing up in Japanese occupied China during World War II, based on the true life experiences of an acquaintance.
Nelson founded Pen WISE Poets (Writers in Service to Education), a literary arts outreach program in Northwest Florida schools which he managed from 1994 thru 1998, and in 1995, Governor Lawton Chiles of Florida cited him for this work by.
In October of 1995, he received a fellowship for his writings, and in August of the same year was appointed by Florida’s Secretary of State to the Directory of Visiting Artists to lecture in Florida schools, only one of five poets throughout the state to be honored so.
A Freeport, Illinois high school graduate, he earned an Associate of Science Degree, BS Business Degree in Operations Management and a Masters of Business Administration Degree from Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois. He is a member of the Phi Theta Kappa Society, Abraham Lincoln Association, American Legion, Military Writer’s Society, Association of the United States Army, a lifetime member of Military Officers Association of America, and other social service organizations. A native of Stephenson County, Illinois, he now resides in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Contact Information: Nelson@patriotmediainc.com
Ken McKowen is an Army veteran having served with the 
Army Security Agency (Signal Intelligence). After training at Fort Devens (Massachusetts) he was assigned to Hakata Station, Kyushu Japan (to spy on the Chinese). Ken then volunteered for Vietnam serving 19 months, initially with the 8th Radio Research Field Station in Phu Bai but primarily with the 265th Radio Research Company (101st Airborne Div.). He led three-man radio intercept teams in the beautiful Au Sha Valley, at Khe Sahn (1971) and on one occasion "accidently" into Laos. He received minor wounds from an exploding mortar round while on Fire Support Base Rakksan but a SNAFU caused him to never receive his Purple Heart. He left Vietnam and the military in May 1971, and is now a member of VFW Post 6158.
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