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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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Autor principal: Wright, James Edward, 1939- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Wright, James Edward, > 1939-
War and society.
Veterans.
Civil-military relations.
HISTORY / Military / Veterans.
HISTORY / Military / United States.
War and society > United States.
Civil-military relations > United States.
Veterans > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction: "Semper Fidelis"
  • Section 1: Reflections of A Veteran
  • "Cannons in the Park," Excerpt from first chapter of Those Who have Borne the Battle
  • "The Old Corps: Boot Camp Memories"
  • "Visiting Vietnam," Excerpt from Preface of Enduring Vietnam
  • "Remarks: Veterans Day 2009 at the Vietnam Memorial Wall"
  • "Walking the Hill They Died On," Vietnam [magazine], June 2019
  • Section II: Advocacy
  • "Honoring Veterans," The Boston Globe, October 6, 2007
  • "The New G I Bill: It's a Win-Win Proposition," The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 7, 2008
  • "The Yellow Ribbon Program and Private Colleges," Excerpt from remarks at the annual meeting of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, February 2, 2009
  • "Veterans Day Is for Remembering
  • And for Looking Ahead," Huffington Post, 11/11/12
  • "What Does America Owe Its Veterans?" Excerpts from Lecture at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, November 14, 2012
  • "The Challenge of Memorializing America's Wars," The Atlantic, 5/29/17
  • "GI Bill 2017: Investing in the Future of the Republic," Thehill.com, 7/28/17
  • "American Veterans and the National Obligation" Excerpt from remarks at a symposium organized by the National Institute of Corrections at the Library of Congress, May 17, 2018
  • "Remarks: Ivy Plus Veterans Council Meeting," October 5, 2019
  • Section III: History Lessons: Reminders of the Nation's Obligation
  • "We Are Always Rewriting the Past
  • We Must," Valley News, 7/12/20
  • "War Veterans and American Democracy," Excerpts from Jefferson Memorial Lecture, University of California, Berkeley, February 2, 2010
  • "Veterans Day in America: The Place of the Korean War in a National Day of Memory," Excerpt from Shinhan Bank Lecture at Yonsei University, Underwood International College, Seoul, South Korea, November 11, 2010
  • "What We Learned From the Korean War," The Atlantic, 7/23/13
  • "The Baby Boomer War," New York Times, 4/11/17
  • "The Real Lessons of Vietnam
  • And Afghanistan," DefenseOne.com, 10/13/17
  • "Remembering Vietnam," Excerpt from remarks at the Wardroom Club, Boston, MA, November 15, 2017
  • "Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War," Excerpts from remarks presented to the Association of the United States Army in the Lemnitzer Lecture Series, May 16, 2018
  • "How Modern Wars Are Changing the Definition of Heroism," MilitaryTimes.com, 9/21/18
  • "As We Remember Normandy, Let's Not Forget Hamburger Hill," MilitaryTimes.com, 5/20/19
  • "The Capture of Hamburger Hill," Vietnam [magazine], June 2019
  • Section IV: Responsibilities
  • "Bearing the Cost of War: Why the U.S. Should Raise Taxes
  • Just As it Has in Previous Conflicts," Foreign Affairs, 8/11/12
  • "The Forgotten 1%," Huffington Post, 10/4/12
  • "War in Afghanistan: The Unseen Sacrifice," Huffington Post, 12/13/12
  • "Have Americans Forgotten Afghanistan?" The Atlantic, 3/25/13
  • "10 Years After 'Mission Accomplished,' the Risks of Another Intervention," The Atlantic, 3/25/13
  • "Remember: Those Who Fight Wars Die in Wars," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 7/3/13
  • "Remembering Those Who Wore the 'Boots on the Ground,'" The Atlantic, 5/30/16
  • "The Human Face of War," MilitaryTimes.com, 6/27/19
  • "Nixon's Leniency After My Lai Hurt Veterans. Trump's May, Too," DefenseOne.com, 12/15/19
  • "We've Learned to Thank Those Who Serve, Whether It's in War or During a Pandemic," Los Angeles Times, 5/25/20
  • "The Election Without a Debate Over War," DefenseOne.com, 11/1/20
  • X Epilogue: Mountains to Climb.

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