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Combat Trauma w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj

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The Anti-Vietnam War Myth

A major through line across this, this US culture of troop veneration is this notion that Vietnam veterans were disrespected after they returned home. And so today we must thank you for your service and defer to vets as a form of a recompense. How was this myth created and in what purposes has it served?

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