Special Recognition | Medal Winners | Summaries & Reviews

• Founders Award: Band of Sisters by Kirsten Holmstedt

• President's Award for Outstanding Contribution: Brent Burns

• Lifetime Award: Don Hanson

• Award for Creativity: My Dad's a Hero by Rebecca Christiansen and Jewel Armstrong

• Music/Creativity CD: Ragtops and Flip Flops by Brent Burns

• Healing Through the Arts: Ron Mann

Historical Fiction: 

• Grady's Tour by John Gallagher

• Military Internet Newsletter: Salute Newsletter by Pat McGrath Avery and Joyce Faulkner

Gold Medal Awards

Gold Medal Awards Given to books that are superior examples of their genres.

• Novel: Baby Jack by Frank Schaeffer

• Memoir: The Highway War by Seth Folsom

• Fiction: The Perfect Assassin by Ward Larsen

• Military Non-Fiction: Charlie Battery by Andrew Lubin

• Reference & Guide Books: Life After Deployment by Karen M. Pavlicin

• Poetry: Vietnam in Verse: Poetry for Beer Drinkers by Mike Mullins

• Humor: God Does Have a Sense of Humor by Rob Ballister

• Children’s Books: I'm a Hero Too by Jenny Sokol

• Anthology: Secure the Fort by Lucy Cain

Silver Medal Awards

Silver Medal Awards Given to books that are excellent works.

• Rangers in Combat by John Lock

• The Rings of Allah by Lee Boyland

• Gangway, Regular Navy by Richard Merrell

• Irish Eyes by Zoe Grider

• For the Good of The Many by Gary Carter

• Retribution by John Schembra

• Constant Bearing Decreasing Range by Skip Vogel

• Scatterlings of Africa by Peter Davies

• When Evil Prospers by John Washburn