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Article: Share your story.(National Endowment for the Arts' Operation Homecoming program)(Brief Article)
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- Soldiers Magazine
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- September 1, 2004
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SOLDIERS returning from duty on the frontlines are being encouraged to write about their wartime experiences through a new National Endowment for the Arts program, called Operation Homecoming.
The NEA is issuing an open call for reflections on war in fiction, verse, letters, essays, memoirs and personal journals.
A panel of literary experts assembled by the NEA will review the entries and select the best examples to be published next year in an anthology that will be given to military installations, schools and libraries, and will be sold in bookstores.
Authors will receive an honorarium and two copies of the book. A percentage of any proceeds ...