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Author : David A. Gerber
Release : 2012-06-06
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Disabled Veterans in History by : David A. Gerber
Download or read book Disabled Veterans in History written by David A. Gerber. This book was released on 2012-06-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of disabled veterans, from Ancient Greece to the conflict in Afghanistan
Author : John M. Kinder
Release : 2015-03-23
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Paying with Their Bodies by : John M. Kinder
Download or read book Paying with Their Bodies written by John M. Kinder. This book was released on 2015-03-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The photograph served many functions, one of them being to revive faith in an American martial ideal—that war could be fought without permanent casualties, and that innovative technology could easily repair war’s damage. When Bagge was awarded his Purple Heart, however, military officials asked him to wear pants to the ceremony, saying that photos of the event should be “soft on the eyes.” Defiant, Bagge wore shorts. America has grappled with the questions posed by injured veterans since its founding, and with particular force since the early twentieth century: What are the nation’s obligations to those who fight in its name? And when does war’s legacy of disability outweigh the nation’s interests at home and abroad? In Paying with Their Bodies, John M. Kinder traces the complicated, intertwined histories of war and disability in modern America. Focusing in particular on the decades surrounding World War I, he argues that disabled veterans have long been at the center of two competing visions of American war: one that highlights the relative safety of US military intervention overseas; the other indelibly associating American war with injury, mutilation, and suffering. Kinder brings disabled veterans to the center of the American war story and shows that when we do so, the history of American war over the last century begins to look very different. War can no longer be seen as a discrete experience, easily left behind; rather, its human legacies are felt for decades. The first book to examine the history of American warfare through the lens of its troubled legacy of injury and disability, Paying with Their Bodies will force us to think anew about war and its painful costs.
Author : De Witt Law
Release : 1929
Genre : Disabled veterans
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Book Synopsis Soldiers of the D. A. V. by : De Witt Law
Download or read book Soldiers of the D. A. V. written by De Witt Law. This book was released on 1929. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Matthew Jordan
Release : 2020-04-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The War Went On by : Brian Matthew Jordan
Download or read book The War Went On written by Brian Matthew Jordan. This book was released on 2020-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, Civil War veterans have emerged from historical obscurity. Inspired by recent interest in memory studies and energized by the ongoing neorevisionist turn, a vibrant new literature has given the lie to the once-obligatory lament that the postbellum lives of Civil War soldiers were irretrievable. Despite this flood of historical scholarship, fundamental questions about the essential character of Civil War veteranhood remain unanswered. Moreover, because work on veterans has often proceeded from a preoccupation with cultural memory, the Civil War’s ex-soldiers have typically been analyzed as either symbols or producers of texts. In The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans, fifteen of the field’s top scholars provide a more nuanced and intimate look at the lives and experiences of these former soldiers. Essays in this collection approach Civil War veterans from oblique angles, including theater, political, and disability history, as well as borderlands and memory studies. Contributors examine the lives of Union and Confederate veterans, African American veterans, former prisoners of war, amputees, and ex-guerrilla fighters. They also consider postwar political elections, veterans’ business dealings, and even literary contests between onetime enemies and among former comrades.
Author : J. C. Gobrecht
Release : 1875
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Book Synopsis History of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers by : J. C. Gobrecht
Download or read book History of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers written by J. C. Gobrecht. This book was released on 1875. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
