No-No Boy by John Okada; Lawson Fusao InadaIn Main Collection.
A novel about the price of refusing to go to an internment camp. The author, Seattle native John Okada, was interned with his family in Idaho and served in the Army during WWII.
A "non-profit that provides no-cost creative writing and songwriting workshops for veterans and their family members. We also publish and produce work created by veterans and family members."
"O-Dark-Thirty is the literary journal of the Veterans Writing Project. Launched in May of 2012, it is a platform for veterans and members of the military community to share their writing with a broad community of interested readers."
"Identifies emerging writers from United States military backgrounds and provides them with the tools and mentorship to nurture their passion for screenwriting and successfully navigate the entertainment industry."
Nonfiction
Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War, an Oral History by David P. ClineThe book "draws on oral histories of Black Korean War veterans to recover the story of their contributions to the fight, the reality that the military desegregated in fits and starts, and how veterans' service fits into the long history of the Black freedom struggle."
A Rumor of War : With a Twentieth Anniversary Postscript by the Author by Philip Caputo; Kevin Powers (Foreword by)In Main collection. "The classic Vietnam memoir, as relevant today as it was almost thirty years ago. In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home--physically whole but emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism forever gone. A Rumor of War is more than one soldier's story. Upon its publication in 1977, it shattered America's indifference to the fate of the men sent to fight in the jungles of Vietnam. In the years since then, it has become not only a basic text on the Vietnam War but also a renowned classic in the literature of wars throughout history and, as Caputo explains, of 'the things men do in war and the things war does to men.' 'A singular and marvelous work.' --The New York Times"