The Second Spring Arts Festival of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 2015 gave an open call to all authors sixty and older for poetry, stories, recollections and essays. The literary pieces were collected into an anthology and published. The particular theme of the anthology for 2015 was "Veterans and Their Impact on Our Lives." Of the 26 entries selected for the anthology, more than 20 centered on military experiences of the experiences of the family members of servicemen and women.