User:Geo Swan/Sharon D. Allen (author)
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Sharon D. Allen | |
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| Born | 1979 (age 44–45) |
| Nationality | USA |
| Occupation | mechanic |
| Known for | Wrote about her military service |
Sergeant Sharon D. Allen is a soldier in the United States Army Reserve, who wrote a prominent blog about her service in Iraq.[1][2] Allen's blog was entitled "100 things I learned in Iraq". Allen was a contributor to the Operation Homecoming book.[3] Four of Allen's essays were republished in Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq.[4][5][6]
Allen published several columns in mainstream newspapers while still in uniform.[7]
Allen was one of the characters in the play "Letters Home", a play based on letters from GIs at the front.[8]
In 2010 the New Jersey Medical School's Center for Humanism and Medicine selected Allen's essay "Lost in Translation", as part of its program of readings to aid medical professionals to perceive health care from the patient's perspective.[9]
References
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"Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience". WETA. Retrieved 2010-12-05.
Sharon D. Allen was born in Miami, Florida and grew up in Cincinnati, OH. At the age of 22, she enlisted in the U.S. Army National Guard. While trained as a fueler, she worked as a mechanic in the 191st Engineer Company in Columbus OH, where she won Soldier of the Year of the 512th Battalion in 2001 and 2003, and Soldier of the Year of the 16th Brigade in 2001.
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Omar P.L. Moore (2007). "Now playing at a Theater Near You: A Heroine (or Anti-Heroine)". popcornreel. Retrieved 2010-12-05.
Ms. Allen is real, and although she speaks with a sanguine demeanor, possesses an inner strength and calm, yet plain-spoken manner that the fictional on-screen heroines lack in comparison. The ordeals and experiences that Ms. Allen and her fellow cohorts have are expressed onscreen in urgent, compelling and vivid fashion.
- ^ Andrew Carroll. "Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families". National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved 2007-06-26.
- ^ Lisa Bowden, Shannon Cain (2008). "Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq". Kore Press. ISBN 9781888553253. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
- ^ Lisa Bowden, Shannon Cain (2008). "Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq". Kore Press. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
- ^ "Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq". 2008. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
- ^ Dan Froomkin, Sharon D. Allen (November 10, 2006). "Veterans Day Observed". Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-06-26.
- ^ "Letters Home: Griffin Theatre Company" (PDF). Tennessee Performing Arts Center. 2010. Retrieved 2010-12-05.
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"Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care®". New Jersey Medical School. 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-.
The New Jersey Council of the Humanities' Literature and Medicine program brings together an identified scholar who will meet monthly in the evening, with health care students and professionals, in order to facilitate an insightful discussion of humanism in medicine, as portrayed in specifically chosen literature, be that stories, essays, poems, plays, or other creative writings. .
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