2009 MWSA Awards

Founder's Award

• Franklin Evans author of Stand To... A Journey to Manhood

President's Award

• Rob Ballister author of God Does Have a Sense of Humor
• John Cathcart author of Delta 7

Anthology

Gold

• Home of the Brave by Jeffery Hess

Silver

• By Dammit, We're Marines by Gail Chatfield

1st Runner Up

• Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Military by Andrew Lubin, et. al.

Children's

Gold

• You and Your Military Hero by by Sara Jensen-Fritz, Paula Jones-Johnson, Thea L. Zitzow

Silver

• Memories of Me by Lisa M. Romagnoli

1st Runner Up

• The Elementary Adventures of Jones, JEEP, Buck & Blue, Jones, Books 1-4 by Sandra Miller Linhart

2nd Runner Up

• If I had a Daddy by Mary M. Sullivan

Fiction

Gold

• The Take-Us by John Raymond Takacs

Silver

• Child Finder by Michael Angley

1st Runner Up

• The Sandman by David Lucero

2nd Runner Up

• Honor Defended by D. H. Brown

Historical Fiction

Gold

• True Colors by Erin Rainwater

Silver

• The Final Salute by Kathleen M. Rodgers

1st Runner Up

• Hollywood Buzz by Margit Liesche

2nd Runner Up

• Virginia's War by Jack London

Memoir

Gold

• Cat Lo, A Memoir of Invincible Youth by Virgil Erwin

Silver

• The Lady Gangster, a Sailor's Memoir by Del Staecker

Music CD

Gold

• Goin' Home by James Jellerson

Non-Fiction

Gold

• Sacred Ground by Tom Ruck

Silver

• The Ether Zone, US Army Special Forces Detachment B-52 by Raymond Morris

1st Runner Up

• Fire in the Night: Creative Essays from an Iraq War Vet by Lee Kelley

2nd Runner Up

• A Vietnam Trilogy by Raymond Scurfield

Poetry

Gold

• Tears for Mother Earth by Jim Greenwald

Silver

• Poems of Passion & Songs for the Soul by James Jellerson

Bronze

• Sugar, Zeroes, and Lemon by Jim Greenwald

Reference

Gold

• The Book of War by Dwight Zimmerman

Silver

• America's Film Vault by Phillip W. Stewart

Spiritual

Gold

• God in the Foxhole by Charles W. Sasser

Silver

• Battlefields & Blessings: Stories of Faith and Courage from World War II by Larkin Spivey

1st Runner Up

• Bible Promises for Soldiers by J. M. Barnes

2nd Runner Up

• I will never give up on God again by Derek W. Clark

Army

Gold

• Immeasurable Spirit: Lessons of a Wounded Warrior by Latoya Lucas

Navy

Gold

• Strike from the Sea by Tommy H. Thomason

Air Force

Gold

• USAF Prototype Jet Fighters by Dennis R. Jenkins and Tony R. Landis

Marines

Gold

• EMBEDDED: A Marine Corps Advisor Inside the Iraqi Army by Wesley Gray