For Memorial Day 2026 I want to highlight a few Veterans centric stories some written specifically for Memorial Day, others just have a Veteran focus. In no specific order. I have read all of them and one I wrote myself.
The first, The Wall a touching Tour of Duty fanfiction dealing with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. Premier members only.
Next a WW II story by DT Iverson, Go For Broke, is very well written. He has several Memorial Day stories on his page. One of the best short story writers on SOL in my opinion.
POW by Joe J is one of the best written harem stories out there with a military main character. He also has a story Silver Wings based on the authors experiences in Vietnam as a paratrooper, and the last story he posted back in 2024.
I wrote my own Memorial Day story, based on a fiction series of mine, it covers the main character grappling with the memories of his war time experiences. It's called Memorial Day - Remembrance.
On a personal note, I went to my local cemetery this morning to plant flags on Veterans graves. In one section, the distance of an NFL first down were six graves, 4 died in Vietnam at the height of the war, two were from WW II who passed away decades after their service. Two of the Vietnam veterans were in the 101st Airborne dying weeks apart, a lot for a city with a population of thirty thousand at the time. Sacrifice.
There are many more stories on SOL, but this should do.
Pete Fox