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- Last Updated on Sunday, 29 May 2016 21:06
A life member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 914 Intrepid West Mifflin has earned the VFW’s top honors for feature writing in 2016.
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| Michael P. Mauer |
Michael P. Mauer, an Army veteran of Operation Desert Storm, won the grand award for best feature article in the VFW National Publications Contest. The article, ‘Post with No Home Earns All State Honors’, was published in the August/September 2015 edition of the Pennsylvania VFW News. Winners of the competition were announced by the VFW May 2.
Mauer’s entry bested a field of articles submitted from more than three dozen VFW departments located across the United States and around the world. The judges’ panel was comprised of professional journalists not affiliated with the VFW.
An active freelance writer for more than 35 years, Mauer won the Army’s highest journalism honor, the Keith L. Ware, in 1991. He was also awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal by Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf for his actions as a military reporter in Operation Desert Storm.
In 1984, Mauer earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and communications from Point Park University.
