"Winners of the Fourth Veterans' Writing Contest" Eric McMillan (MAPH '10) has been awarded the Iowa Review's Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans.
Veterans who contest a wrong decision face an appeals process that takes, on average, more than two years.
A battle of lightweight veterans, this contest between Saad Awad (19-7 MMA, 7-4 BMMandanDerek Andersonon (13-2 MMA, 4-2 BMMA) will feature a pair of well-rounded fighters who are just a few wins away from a possible title shot.
That's twice the audience for its lead-in, the veteran singing contest "American Idol" -- and "Idol" was the night's No. 2 program.
With the advertiser-coveted young-adult viewers, the veteran singing contest was down just 5% from last week's episode and was easily the highest-rated show of the night.
Add a hefty dose of conservative politics and it is no surprise that clouds of nostalgia hung around today's first annual Roast and Ride a barbecue- and Harley-themed patriotic festival organised by Iowa's freshman senator, Joni Ernst, as a salute to military veterans and speechifying contest for 2016 presidential hopefuls.
Thyra Zerhusen and Jean-Marie Eveillard are four-year contest veterans.
This year, coaches Martin Rinard, associate professor in computer science, and Vladimir Kiriansky, a senior in the department (and a two-year contest veteran himself) selected three students: Percy Liang '04, John Danaher '04 and Reid Barton '05.
Parker discusses the history of African American military service and how the wartime experiences of black veterans inspired them to contest Jim Crow.
The American Legion, a century-old veterans' organization, began the contest, in 1938, to "develop deeper knowledge and appreciation for the U.S. Constitution among high-school students". Its alumni include the former Republican Presidential candidate Alan Keyes and the conservative pundit Lou Dobbs.
