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2004 Season

Special Recognition Awards

  • PTSD - Special Healing Award: Enemy Within by Gregory A. Helle

Medal Winners

Gold Medal Awards

  • Poetry: Ghost of the Nam by Charlie Fortner

  • Photography Book: Voices of Vietnam by Charlene Edwards

  • Military History: America Won The War by Robert R. Owens

  • Short Stories: A Saigon Party and Other Vietnam War Short Stories by Diane J. Dell

  • War Anthologies: Angels in Vietnam: The Women Who Served by Jan Hornung

  • War Novel: What Am I Doing Here? by Jim Kesey

  • War Novel: Permission To Kill by Brian Wizard

  • Personal Memoirs: River of Memories - An Appalachian Boyhood by David Lee Thompson

  • War Memoirs: Love and Duty by Ben and Ann Purcell

  • Military Unit History: Dustoff by Steve Vermillion

Silver Medal Awards

  • Poetry: A Walk In Hell by Gregory A. Helle

  • Military History: The Last Hookers by Carle E. Dunn

  • Short Stories: Never Trust A Man In Curlers by Tony Lazzarini

  • War Novel: Red Bird Down by Bruce E. Carlson

  • Personal Memoirs: Grief Denied by Pauline Laurent

  • War Memoirs: I Served by Don C. Hall and Annette R. Hall

  • Military Unit History: Outlaws in Vietnam by David L. Eastman

Distinguished Honor Awards*

  • The Cave by Sam McGowan

  • Rattler One-Seven by Chuck Gross

  • Stealth Patrol by Bill Shanahan & John P. Brackin

  • Highest Traditions by Tony Lazzarini

  • A Buffalo's Revenge by Bob Lupo

  • Born in Brooklyn... Raised in the CAV! by John Flanagan

  • C. M. A. C. - A Vietnam era Trilogy by James J. Finnegan

  • Conduct to the Prejudice of Good Order by Dan Dane

  • The Two-Dollar Bill by Roger H. Soiset

  • Black Water by Neil Millar

(*Changed to the Bronze Medal)

Book Summaries & Reviews
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