MWSA is proud to announce this year's awards.

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!

Andy Lubin

Rob Ballister

Jim Stewart

Lloyd King

Claudia Pemberton