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"Mommy, What Is A POW/MIA?" Award Winning Children's Book



This page is about the Children's Book I have written titled "Mommy, What Is A POW/MIA?"

This book explains on a 5-12 year old level about the sacrifices our Military takes to keep our country free. But there is so much information that people of all ages will walk away from reading this book with a better knowledge of the Prisoner of War/Missing In Action (POW/MIA) issues.

How The Book Idea Started

I have always been a supporter of our Armed Forces from a young age. I respect the men and women that sacrifice their freedom and well being to ensure that everyone in the USA and the World is able to keep or receive their freedoms for the first time. We are bound by a love of our God given rights to to fight for what we believe is right. After serving in the Army, I wanted to do something to help keep the memory of our Veterans alive and well. Being a Disabled Veteran I joined the Disabled American Veterans. Afterward, I also joined Rolling Thunder, INC (R) (www.rollingthunder1.com) in North Carolina. This set the groundwork for me using some of the talents I have been blessed with by writing a few poems dedicated to the POW/MIA. Then I though, "Why don't I take it a step further and write a Children's book to help the younger gerations understand that we still have over 92,000 military service members that are POW/MIA since World War I. I contemplated what type of book it would be, and knew I had no way of paying for a book to be published so I chose the route of a print on demand company. I sent in the manuscript to Publish America (www.publishamerica.com) and in just a few short months I was contacted that they would accept my book for publishing. I was excited and amazed that I could get a book published. In March of 2008, I received my first copies and they sold like hotcakes in the military community.

Awards

This book was reviewed by the Military Writers Socity of America (www.militarywriters.com) and won the Gold Medal for Children's Military Themed Books in 2008. I was amazed and honored at this award, but I was also humbled because the book was against a veteran children's book author and this was my first award for any type of writing that I had completed.

JThomasDixon (talk) 03:48, 29 June 2009 (UTC)