Ruth Salter

RUTH SALTER lives with her husband, baby daughter, and more than twice the legal limit of pets in Boise where she teaches writing part-time at Boise State University. Her past adventures include rehabilitating injured wildlife, flying airplanes upside down, and receiving nominations for two Pushcart prizes.

U.S. Navy Photo: “Dawn Landing on Wake Island”

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 2

I knew it was dawn
With the sun blurring whitely
Through the gray clouds,
But I’m glad someone wrote that.
The light and the words make a bridge
Across the water to the sand.

The Push (Captain Pratt’s Story from Korea)

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 2

That whole war we were never told what
was happening, never given a plan. We thought there
were only a few, but one day they covered
the hilltops around us. One shot would mean a massacre;