My neighbor is a speechwriter for the National Endowment for the Arts, and is coordinating a program where authors visit military bases and conduct writing workshops, with the intent of getting troops to start writing about their experiences overseas. The NYT just wrote a piece on their recent visit to Camp Lejune, titled Trying to Make the Pen as Mighty as the Sword:

The program, called 'Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience,' is aimed at preserving stories from the battlegrounds of Iraq and Afghanistan. The endowment expects to hold 20 or so workshops at American military installations between now and next spring (Camp Lejeune was the second stop; the first was Fort Drum in upstate New York in June), with a formidable roster of participating writers selected by an independent panel of editors appointed by the endowment. It includes military thriller heavyweights like Jeff Shaara and Tom Clancy, as well as prominent literary lights like Tobias Wolff and Richard Bausch.

Now all they need to do is issue those Marines Blogger accounts on their way out the door ...
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