Combat Trauma w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj
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The Trauma of Vietnam Veterans
In the 1980s, psychologists began to theorize that Vietnam vets were traumatized by their hostile homecoming. The militarist right became obsessed with a so-called "Vietnam syndrome," which came to refer to popular American opposition to or skepticism of foreign wars. It suggests at least implicitly that veterans traumas do to anti-war American civilians imposing a not real but neurotic guilt upon returning veterans.
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