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When you move around a lot as a child, or live overseas,
one of the advantages you miss is a "hometown" network - people who write you
recommendations, people who support your artistic endeavors in their infancies,
people who cheer you on just because, well, you're the "hometown guy" or the
"hometown gal."
This type of networking is particularly important for writers and artists and
actors and musicians - even athletes. There aren't too many college football
scouts roaming the streets of Ankara, Turkey to check out the latest
halfback, right?
That's why Brats Without Borders is pleased to present this list of brats who
are out there making their mark on the world. Support them, cheer them on, or
just wish good thoughts for them. They're your "hometown" guys and gals.
We're also putting together the
BRATS Hope Network
- to acknowledge and spread
the word about BRATS that are out there doing good deeds! If you know of a brat
trying to make a difference in the world, please
let us know - and we'll help
get the word out.
Brat Writers
Brat Musicians
Brat Artists
Brat Theatre
Brat Writers
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Mary Edwards Wertsch
Author of Military Brats: Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress, the ground-breaking
1991 non-fiction book which opened the eyes and soothed the soul of many a military brat,
including the Writer-Director of BRATS: Our Journey Home, Donna Musil. Brightwell
Publishing, founded by Mary in 2005, specializes in books and films
that explore and strengthen military brat cultural identity.
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Sarah Bird
Author of The Yokota Officer's Club and many other wonderful
books.
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Michael Ritter
Author of The Brat Chronicles.
"The Brat Chronicles had me laughing out loud from the first chapter. The Griswold Family has
nothing on the Ritters. From falling in French toilets to feeding seven on a Master Sergeant's salary,
'it's all just part of the adventure.' Michael Ritter may well be the Jeff Foxworthy of brats!" --
Donna Musil, Writer-Director, Brats: Our Journey Home.
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Scott Hawley
Author of Hot Times During the Cold War: An American Comes of Age in
West Germany.
A wonderfully introspective and thought-provoking book of poetry about growing up brat in
Germany in the 80s.
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Samia Mounts
Author of Frunk the Skunk, about a spunky 11-year-old who moves
to Seoul, Korea. Her debut novel captures the vulnerability of adolescents and conveys the
nuances of everyday life on an American army base.
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Lucinda Franks
Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of My Father's Secret War: A Memoir,
in which a daughter discovers that the remote, nearly impassive man she grew up with had in
fact been a daring spy behind enemy lines in World War II.
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Jane Barcroft
Author of Pink Sand Poems, poetry inspired by the author's
experiences growing up in Bermuda.
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Mary Truscott
Author of one of the first books about growing up military,
Brats: Children of the American Military Speak Out.
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Books for Brats
Michelle Ferguson-Cohen, Author of Mommy, You're My Hero! and Daddy, You're My Hero!,
called the "Dr. Seuss" for military brats by The Washington Times.
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The Hero In My Pocket
A unique book for children whose lives have been affected by the loss of a member of the
U.S. Armed Forces.
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Tony Savageau & Walter Chalkley
Authors of Train of Thought, about two old friends reliving a
post-high school train trip through Europe 15 years after the fact.
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Brats Press
Publishes products that encourage conversations about feelings
and teach coping skills for military families, including - Coming Home Series:
Navy Dad
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Allen Clark
Author of Wounded Soldier, Healing Warrior, a personal story of
a Vietnam Veteran (and Military Brat) who lost his legs but found his soul.
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Jean Walters Gayle
Author of The Colonel's Daughter, a true story of
Occupied Germany 1946-1949.
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Marilyn Celeste
Author of Once a Brat, about her world-wide travels with her army officer father
from 1938 to 1958, and Diagnosis: Lupus, an intimate journal of a lupus patient.
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Brat Musicians
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Brett Mikels
Beautiful music. Brats will definitely relate. A blend of Soul,
R&B, and good old Rock-N-Roll. This guy is good.
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Christa Wells
2006 Gospel Music Association Award for Songwriter of the Year.
Wrote the touching song "Before the Tree Comes Down" to the troops in Iraq.
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Brat Artists
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Tim Gifford
Breathtaking sculptures from a United Nations brat and fireman
living in Colorado.
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Jerry Gryniewicz
Beautiful photographs from a military brat and USAF veteran in
Vermont.
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Frank D. Kelley
Lakenheath brat whose Multiple Sclerosis, wheelchair, and prostate cancer doesn't stop him
from creating wonderful electronic crayon art and performing stand up comedy!
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Brat Theatre
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And Toto Too Theatre Company
Theatre company in Denver, CO, run by Air Force Brat Susan Lyles, that
focuses on producing new works by women playwrights.
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