The National Endowment for the Arts’ Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Exprerience will eventually include a literay anthology and an active archive of soldiers’ narratives of war. For now, their website includes a few sample wartime letters, memoirs, and poems, plus plenty of copy about the writing workshops of the past two yeasr that were led by Richard Bausch, Tobias Wolff, Andrew Carroll, and others distinguished writers. Last year, the NEA promoted Stephen Lang’s one-man play, Beyond Glory, an off-shoot production for Operation Homecoming, where Lang presented the voice and characeter of eight decorated veterans from World War, Korea, and Vietnam. Based on Larry Smith’s book Beyond Glory: Medal of Honor Heroes in Their Own Words, Lang’s play was performed at bases across the globe, including American ships in the Persian Gulf.
There are a few letters, memoirs, and poems available at Operation Homecoming, which supplied The New Yorker with the letters it ran in its "Life During Wartime" issue earlier this summer.
