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    MILITARY BRATS: A Living Study in Race Relations 

    Musil, Donna (Virginia Tech, 2015-11)
    In 1948, President Harry Truman issued Executive Order 9981, desegregating the United States military. Much has been written about the Order's effect on soldiers; almost none about the powerful effect it has had on generations ...
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    Proceedings of the Second Conference on Veterans in Society: Humanizing the Discourse 

    Virginia Tech. Veterans Studies Group; Virginia Tech. Department of English. Center for the Study of Rhetoric in Society (2015)
    The second conference on Veterans in Society represented ongoing growth and continuity in our research program. Our first conference, “Changing the Discourse” (2013), marked the first academic conference solely focused on ...
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    Reconciliation as [Lofty] Aim: A Genre Analysis of Iraq War-Era Women Veterans' Memoirs 

    Grohowski, Mariana (Virginia Tech, 2015-11)
    Using the framework of rhetorical genre studies, this paper presents findings from an analysis of fifteen memoirs written by Iraq War-era women veterans. This work seeks to elucidate how the genre of "the war memoir" both ...
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    The Church: One of the First Military Veterans Organizations 

    Price, Stuart V. (Virginia Tech, 2015-11)
    Today, the Federal Department of Veterans Affairs recognizes well over 100 military veteran organizations including the American Legion, American Veterans (AMVETS), Paralyzed Veterans of America, and Veterans of Foreign ...
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    Models of the Post-Racial World? Rhetorics of Race among U.S. Military Brats 

    Nobles, Heidi (Virginia Tech, 2015-11)
    The U.S. military has long been claimed as a model for racial integration, having been integrated by executive order before the general population; significantly, too, the military is constantly shuffling but organized by ...
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    Race, Civil War Memory, and Sisterhood in the Woman's Relief Corps 

    Kennedy, John C. (Virginia Tech, 2015-11)
    This paper explores the intersections of race and the public remembrances of the American Civil War in the Woman's Relief Corps (WRC), auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). It specifically examines the role ...
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    Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram. War, Writing, Reconciliation 

    Duffey, Suellynn (Virginia Tech, 2015-11)
    <i>Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram</i> is a diary written by a North Vietnamese field physician serving in South Vietnam during the war we fought there who treated Vietnamese communists and ...
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    Outsiders of Battlefield Experience: The Journey Home for the Civil War Soldier 

    Dahlstrand, Kate (Virginia Tech, 2015-11)
    Present value is applied to the rapid nature of Civil War soldiers' redeployment home. This paper explores the means by which Union and Confederate soldiers found their way home and the obstacles they encountered along the ...
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    War Trauma in the Construction of American Lost-war Culture: From WWI to Vietnam and the Present 

    Lembcke, Jerry (Virginia Tech, 2015-11)
    The war veteran suffering Shell Shock is one of the most enduring images of twentieth century war. Among 21st century media pundits and even some medical professionals, however, few are aware that Shell Shock was largely ...
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    Some were free born. Some were fugitives. Some were slaves. Now they were all veterans. 

    Hepburn, Sharon A. Roger (Virginia Tech, 2015-11)
    This essay centers on the soldiers of the 102nd United States Colored Infantry (USCI), originally organized in August 1863 as the First Michigan Colored Infantry, the only all-black regiment organized in the state and one ...
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    Content TypeConference proceeding (16)Presentation (15)SubjectVeterans in Society (14)ViS (14)Race and/or Reconciliation, the Third Conference on Veterans in Society (13)Reconciliation (3)Rhetoric (2)... View MoreDate Issued
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    AuthorCraig, Jim (1)Dahlstrand, Kate (1)Duffey, Suellynn (1)Giguere, Joy M. (1)Grant, Leonard Francis III (1)... View MoreHas File(s)Yes (16)

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