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"War and American Life is a book of essays and reflections of a veteran and a historian who has been an advocate and a teacher/scholar. It considers American veterans and how our society needs to understand who they are and what they have done-and the responsibilities that follow this recogniti...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wright, James Edward, 1939-2022 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Wright, James Edward, > 1939-2022.
Wright, James Edward, > 1939-
Wright, James Edward, > 1939-2022
Veterans > United States.
Civil-military relations > United States.
War and society > United States.
Guerre et société > États-Unis.
Relations pouvoir civil-pouvoir militaire > États-Unis.
Anciens combattants > États-Unis.
HISTORY / Military / United States.
HISTORY / Military / Veterans.
War and society
Veterans
Civil-military relations
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: Do you know my brother?
  • Introduction: Semper Fidelis
  • Reflections of A Veteran
  • Cannons in the Park
  • The Old Corps: Boot Camp Memories
  • Visiting Vietnam
  • A Generation Goes to War
  • Veterans Day 2009 at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall
  • Walking the Hill They Died On
  • Advocacy
  • Honoring Veterans
  • The New GI Bill: It's a Win-Win Proposition
  • The Yellow Ribbon Program and Private Colleges and Universities
  • Veterans Day Is for Remembering
  • And for Looking Ahead
  • What Does America Owe Its Veterans?
  • The Challenge of Memorializing America's Wars
  • American Veterans and the National Obligation
  • Welcome: Fall Meeting of the Ivy League Veterans Coucil
  • History Lessons
  • We Are Always Rewriting the Past
  • We Must
  • War Veterans and American Democracy
  • Veterans Day in America: The Place of the Korean War in a National Day of Memory
  • What We Learned From the Korean War
  • The Baby Boomer War
  • The Real Lessons of Vietnam
  • And Afghanistan
  • Remembering Vietnam
  • Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War
  • How Modern Wars Are Changing the Definition of Heroism
  • As We Remember Normandy, Let's Not Forget Hamburger Hill
  • The Capture of Hamburger Hill
  • Responsibilities
  • Bearing the Cost of War: Why the U.S. Should Raise Taxes
  • Just As it Has in Previous Conflicts
  • The Forgotten 1%
  • War in Afghanistan: The Unseen Sacrifice
  • Have Americans Forgotten Afghanistan?
  • Ten Years After "Mission Accomplished," the Risks of Another Intervention
  • Remember: Those Who Fight Wars Die in Wars
  • Remembering Those Who Wore the "Boots on the Ground"
  • The Human Face of War
  • Nixon's Leniency After My Lai Hurt Veterans. Trump's May, Too
  • We've Learned to Thank Those Who Serve, Whether It's in War or During a Pandemic
  • The Election Without a Debate Over War
  • Challenges
  • How America's All-Volunteer Force Reshaped the Military
  • and the Country
  • Reflections and Observations: the Twenty-First-Century All-Volunteer Force.

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