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Forever Vietnam : How a Divisive War Changed American Public Memory /
"Kieran focuses his analysis on the recent remembrance of six events, three of which occurred before the Vietnam War and three after. The first group includes the siege of the Alamo in 1836, the incarceration of Union troops at Andersonville during the Civil War, and the experience of American...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: "I know what it's like"
- "How far is Andersonville from Vietnam?": Vietnam revisionism and Andersonville National Historic Site
- "We veterans of mass murder and stupidity": older veterans' PTSD and the narration of combat in post-Vietnam memoirs of the Second World War
- "We see a lot of parallels between the men at the Alamo and ourselves": recovering from Vietnam at the Alamo
- "We should have said no": Vietnam's legacy, the remembrance of Somalia, and debates over humanitarian intervention in the 1990s
- "It's almost like the Vietnam wall": the legacy of Vietnam and remembrance of Flight 93
- "The lessons of history": Vietnam's legacy during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Afterword: "the task of telling your story continues."