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Congratulations to all winners!
FOUNDER'S AWARD Selected by Bill McDonald, Founder & Past MWSA President "Wounded Warriors: Those for Whom the War Never Ends" by Mike Sager
PRESIDENT'S AWARD Selected by Tony Lazzarini, President of MWSA "Chum Water" by Hodge Wood Military Non-Fiction Gold Medal - "Leathernecks” by Merrill Bartlett & Jack Sweetman Silver Medal - "Slaughter at Goliad" by Jay Stout
Memoir Gold Medal - "The Ghosts of Thua Thien, An American Soldier’s Memoir of Vietnam" by John A. Nesser Silver Medal - "Chum Water" by Hodge Wood
Historical Fiction Gold Medal - "Killing Rommel" by Steve Pressfield Silver- Two Brothers by David Jones
Fiction Gold Medal - "Behold an Ashen Horse" by Lee Boyland Silver Medal - "Honor Due" by D.H. Brown
Children's Books Gold Medal - "What is a POW/MIA?" by John T. Dixon, Jr. Silver Medal - "My Mommy Wears Combat Boots" by Sharon G. McBride
Poetry Gold Medal - "Across the Bridge" by Jim Greenwald
Spiritual & Religious Gold Medal - "No Atheists in Foxholes" by Chaplain Patrick McLaughlin, Cdr, USN Silver Medal - "How Free People Can Move Mountains" by Frank Schaeffer & Kathy Roth-Douquet
Marine Corps Gold Medal - "Through the Wheat" by Col. Joseph Alexander (USMC, ret) & BrigGen Edwin Howard Simmons Silver Medal - "Fire Mission" by Earl Gorman
Army Gold Medal - "One Weekend a Month" by Craig Trebelcock
Navy Gold Medal - "Proximity" by Steve Phillips
Current Events Gold Medal - "The Border" by David Danelo Silver - “The Highlanders” by Rob Kauder
Reference Gold Medal - "Securing the Global Transportation Network" by Luke Ritter
Anthology Gold Medal - "The Sandbox - "Dispatches from Troops in Iraq & Afghanistan" edited by David Stanford
NOTE: There were no 2008 submissions for Air Force or Humor.
The 2008 MWSA Awards Banquet scheduled on November 11 has been cancelled. A new date will be set after January 1, 2009!
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