AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS FOUNDATION
    PAST IS PROLOGUE ESSAY CONTEST
    2025 APPLICATION

    Essay due no later than 10pm MDT, Sunday April 27, 2025

    To submit your essay:

    • Fill-out this Application online. You will receive a confirmation with a Unique ID number. The
      application must be submitted before your essay can be uploaded.

    • Upload the essay using your unique Participant ID number no later than April 27, 2025 at 10 pm
      MDT. All essays must be received digitally through the Essay Contest portal.





    (Must be no older than 18 on April 27, 2025)













    Pledge to Submit an Original Essay

    Certification of the Student

    Certification of the Adult Editor

    Parent/Guardian Permissions


    When your student’s essay is chosen as winning a prize, the parent/guardian will be required to sign an
    Irrevocable Consent, Assignment and Release*. Additionally, a current, signed IRS Form W9 for the
    student will be required to be submitted to ABMF for the student to receive prize money.


    Because ABMF does not communicate directly with minors, the following permission allows ABMF to
    contact the parent/guardian regarding the several steps in the application, submission and notification
    process.


    Yes, American Battle Monuments Foundation may call and/or email me:

    • To acknowledge receipt of the essay.

    • To inform me/my child of the results. (Winners will be called and/or emailed; all participants will
      receive a notice informing them of the results.)

    • If my child submits a winning essay, to discuss how ABMF will announce the results, publicly
      identify the winners, and promote future contests.

    • To contact me regarding future contests and other ABMF activities.

    • ABMF may use my student’s first name, initial of the last name, and city/town for marketing
      purposes if they win.

    IRREVOCABLE CONSENT, ASSIGNMENT AND RELEASE

    I (as parent or guardian) and the child (identified below) each irrevocably consent to and authorize American Battle Monuments
    Foundation (“ABMF”), its officers, directors, employees, volunteers, and agents and any person or entity it so authorizes to use,
    reproduce and display all video testimonials (including photographs, video, audio, recordings and other images, and student writings
    related to ABMF (together, the “Materials”) taken of and/or produced by the child identified below, including identification of the child
    by name, for advertising, publicity purposes, and/or display, in all formats (including but not limited to any publications, multimedia
    display and the world wide web publication), without compensation or any other consideration to me or the child. All such Material and
    all rights therein, including but not limited to copyrights, are assigned to and shall constitute the property of ABMF, solely and
    completely. I and the child hereby release and forever discharge ABMF, its officers, directors, employees, volunteers, and agents for any
    and all claims arising out of or in connection with the use of the Material for any purpose related to ABMF.