Girls imitated the nurses of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, which provided medical care to the soldiers. Kids read magazines such as Our Young Folks that contained stories of soldiers like Johnny ...

Some volunteered to go to Vietnam. But many of the soldiers who went were drafted into the service, ineligible for a student deferment because they had never been to college. Twenty-year-old Mike ...

I am Caitlyn. I'm seventeen years old and I am a junior soldier. A junior soldier is someone aged sixteen or seventeen that completes their basic training at the Army Foundation College.

The essays examine the different paths and purposes that led each to write for children. From Soldier to Storyteller is worthwhile reading not only for insights into how their wartime service ...