This is the true story of the creation of MilSpeak Foundation, Inc., a non-profit arts and education organization for the military community. MilSpeak's creation is told through the experiences of Sally Drumm, founder and creator of MilSpeak Creative Writing Seminars, MilSpeak Memo and MilSpeak Books. The highlight of this anthology is the essays, spanning the Korean War to the Gulf Wars, written by members of the military community at Marine Corps Air Station, Beaufort, SC, during MilSpeak Creative Writing Seminars led by Sally from 2005 - 2008, and sponsored by Marine Corps Community Services. The entire project was designed to discover how far a peer group could go without funding to help each other assimilate the military experience in a positive way during the early 21st Century when PTSD was mainly considered a theory, seldom addressed, and severely stigmatized. During each of eight workshops, these military people, many of whom had no writing experience, chose a singular event in their lives to explore through the workshop method. In doing so, they each discovered a new pathway to understanding themselves and each other. When a publisher asked to publish these works, the group as a whole recognized the life-saving value sharing their stories might hold: "if you made it through, maybe I can, too." Not wanting to profit from sales of the anthology, the group elected to form a non-profit organization. This anthology is perfect for book club or classroom to begin a conversation about wartime experience and military life. What are our troops and their families really enduring to answer the call to duty? Revisit the Korean War and Vietnam War on your way to the Gulf Wars as you learn about military life in the words of those who lived it.