Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The US military and American veterans now struggled to define the image of military women and nurses, and Home Before Morning was to blame. Of all the critics, a nurse anesthetist named Patricia L. Walsh who served at a civilian hospital of the United States Agency for International Development in Da Nang was the loudest and most persistent.
Veterans studies is an academic field that examines the diverse experiences of military veterans and their families in society. [1] As a multidisciplinary field [2] committed to advancing understanding of all aspects of the “veteran in society," inquiry draws on the intersections of the theoretical and the applied, the creative and the performative, the normative and the empirical.
Inside the Danger Zone: The U.S. Military in the Persian Gulf 1987-88 by Harold Wise; One Shot, One Kill- American Combat Snipers: WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Beirut by Charles W. Sasser/Craig Roberts; Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military by Oxford University Press; Pathfinder: First In, Last Out by Richard R. Burns
He also has a lot of admiration and respect for military veterans. Yott, who lives in Bath, is combining those two interests to put together a compilation of personal stories from Vietnam War ...
Much of his writing is about wartime Vietnam, [1] and his work later in life often explores the postwar lives of its veterans. [2] O'Brien is perhaps best known for his book The Things They Carried (1990), a collection of linked semi-autobiographical stories inspired by his wartime experiences. [3]
The Veterans History Project commemorated its 10th anniversary through a host of various events and initiatives, including a commemorative anniversary event. [20] The featured speaker for this event was James H. Billington, the 13th Librarian of Congress, who called upon Americans to collect the stories of veterans on September 29th, 2010. [21]
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
He also has memberships in the following: VFW, American Legion, United Veterans Council, and the San Diego Veterans Coalition. In addition to his continued work as an author, speaker, and veterans advocate, Meyer also hosts SOGCast, a podcast featuring untold stories of MACVSOG and those of fellow Green Berets and Special Forces operators.