Special Recognition | Medal Winners| Summaries & Reviews

MWSA President’s Award

• Charlayne Henry by Pittsburgh, PA

MWSA Founder’s Award

• Uncommon Valor by Dwight Zimmerman

Fiction

Historical Fiction

• HONORABLE MENTION -- Grey Wolf by David Huffman
• BRONZE -- For the Fatherland by Walter Zapotoczny, Jr
• BRONZE -- Sisters of Valor by Rosalie Turner
• SILVER -- The Great Hour Struck by Gary Varner
• GOLD -- Days of Smoke by Mark Ozeroff

Literary Fiction

• HONORABLE MENTION -- Digger Dogface Brownjob Grunt
• BRONZE -- The Letter by Jerry Yellin
• SILVER -- Crack Between the Worlds by Carmen Stenholm
• GOLD -- Internal Conflicts by Flint Whitlock

Mystery/Thriller

• BRONZE -- Dangerous Past by A. F. Ebbers
• SILVER -- Muted Mermaid/Shaved Ice/Chocolate Soup Trilogy by Del Staecker
• SILVER -- Child Finder: Resurrection by Mike Angley
• GOLD -- Saigon Gold by Hugh Scott
• GOLD -- Breath of the Choson Dragon by Jack L. Wells

SciFi/Fantasy/Horror

• HONORABLE MENTION -- Echo of a Distant Planet by Wayne Lutz
• SILVER -- Rhombus by Bob Gore

Non-Fiction

Creative Non-fiction

• HONORABLE MENTION -- America’s Finest by Stephen Peterson

Anthology

• GOLD -- Surviving the Folded Flag by Deborah Tainsh

Biography

• HONORABLE MENTION -- A Life Well-Built by Lee Kelley
• SILVER -- This is Latch: The Story of Admiral Roy L. Hoffmann by Weymouth D. Symmes
• SILVER -- An American Family in World War II by Sandra O’Connell
• GOLD -- An American Knight by Norman Fulkerson

History

• SILVER -- Riding a Donkey Backwards Through Afghanistan by Mick Simonelli
• SILVER -- Truman and MacArthur by Don Farinacci
• GOLD -- Fortress Rabaul by Bruce Gamble
• GOLD -- New Dawn: The Battles for Fallujah by Richard Lowry

Memoir

• HONORABLE MENTION -- Nam Sense by Arthur Wiknik
• SILVER -- Roadside Bombs by William Little
• SILVER -- Missions of Fire and Mercy by William Peterson
• GOLD -- My Last War by Charles Grist

How To

• SILVER -- The Burntwaters Cook’s Kitchen Guide by David Michaelson

• GOLD -- A Retailer's Guide to Frugal In-Store Promotion by Carolyn Howard-Johnson

Reference

• HONORABLE MENTION -- MST: Military Sexual Trauma by Miette Wells
• HONORABLE MENTION -- 25 FREE References EVERY Texas Veteran Needs to Know by Marylyn Harris
• BRONZE--The Politics & Security of the Gulf by Jeffrey Macris
• GOLD--The Military Father by Armin Brott

Spiritual/Religious

• HONORABLE MENTION -- A Quiet Reality by Emilio Marrero

• BRONZE --- Faith Deployed by Jocelyn Green

• SILVER -- Tear in the Desert by Father Ron Camarda
• GOLD -- Battlefields and Blessings by Jocelyn Green

Military

Air Force

• SILVER -- If You Fly Don’t Crash by Charles Bailey
• SILVER -- Of War and Weddings by Jerry Yellin

Coast Guard

• GOLD -- So That Others May Live by Martha LaGuardia- Kotite

Army

• BRONZE -- They Were Ready: The 164th Infantry by Terry Shoptaugh
• SILVER -- A Hill Called White Horse by Anthony Sobieski
• GOLD -- Porcelain on Steel by Donna McAleer
• GOLD -- The Texas Gun Club by Mark Bowlin

Marines

• HONORABLE MENTION -- And My Mother Danced with Chesty Puller by Bruce Hoffman
• SILVER -- The Road to Iwo Jima by Tom McGraham
• GOLD -- Immediate Response by Clare MacNaughton and Mark Hammond 

Navy

• HONORABLE MENTION -- War on the Rivers by Weymouth D. Symmes
• BRONZE -- Paper Dragon, Wooden Ship by Jack L. Wells
• SILVER -- How Can You Mend This Purple Heart by Terry Gould
• GOLD -- Shore Duty by Stewart Harris

Artistic

Graphic

• GOLD -- The Vietnam War: A Graphic History by Dwight J. Zimmerman

Pictorial

• HONORABLE MENTION -- AMARG: America's Military Aircraft Boneyard by Nicholas Veronico and Ron Strong
• BRONZE --- Fields of War by Robert Mueller
• SILVER -- Cold War Peacemaker by Don Pyeatt and Dennis R. Jenkins
• GOLD -- Lockheed Blackbird Family by Tony Landis

Poetry – Single Poem

• GOLD -- POW/MIA by Mike Mullins

Poetry – Book of Poetry

• HONORABLE MENTION -- She Wore Emerald Then by Carolyn Howard-Johnson & Magdelena Ball

• GOLD -- Twisted Tongues by jim greenwald and Ruth Gerhardt

Children

Children Under 12

• BRONZE -- Momma’s Boots by Sandra Linhart

• SILVER -- The ABC’s of OCD by Kathleen Dunn

• SILVER -- Daddy’s Boots by Sandra Linhart
• GOLD -- My Sailor Dad by Ross Mackenzie

Young Adult

• HONORABLE MENTION -- My Story: Blogs by Four Military Teens by Michelle Sherman and Anne Sherman

• BRONZE -- Tecumseh: Shooting Star of the Shawnee by Dwight J. Zimmerman

• SILVER -- Firefight on Brown Water by Lynn Salsi
• GOLD -- Finding My Way: A Teenager's Guide to Living with a Parent Who Has Experienced Trauma by Michelle Sherman and DeAnne Sherman

Audio Books

• SILVER -- Kings of the Green Jelly Moon by Mike Mullins, James Jellerson, Lloyd King, and jim greenwald
• SILVER -- Lucky Enough by Eddie Beesley
• GOLD -- Vietnam in Verse by Mike Mullins

Musical CD

• SILVER -- Sailing Away by James Jellerson
• GOLD -- Way Back Home by Jeff Senour & CTS