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Richard Moser uses interviews and personal stories of Vietnam veterans to offer a fundamentally new interpretation of the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement. Although the Vietnam War was the most important conflict of recent American history, its decisive battle was not fought in the jungles of Vietnam, or even in the streets of the United States, but rather in the hearts and minds of American soldiers.
To a degree unprecedented in American history, soldiers and veterans acted to oppose the very war they waged. Tens of thousands of soldiers and veterans engaged in desperate conflicts with their superiors and opposed the war through peaceful protest, creating a mass movement of dissident organizations and underground newspapers.
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Moser shows how the antiwar soldiers lived out the long tradition of the citizen-soldier first created in the American Revolution and Civil War. Unlike those great upheavals of the past, the Vietnam War offered no way to fulfill the citizen-soldier's struggle for freedom and justice. Rather than abandoning such ideals, however, tens of thousands abandoned the war effort and instead fulfilled their heroic expectations in the movements for peace and justice.
According to Moser, this transformation of warriors into peacemakers is the most important recent development of our military culture.
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Armed Forces, Political activity, Protest movements, Soldiers, Veterans, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Vietnamkrieg, Guerre du Viet-Nam (1961-1975), Veteran, Militaires americains, Vietnam War (1961-1975) fast (OCoLC)fst01431664, Soldat, Protestbewegung, Anciens combattants, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, protest movements, United states, armed forces, DissentersPlaces
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The new winter soldiers: GI and veteran dissent during the Vietnam era
1996, Rutgers University Press
in English
0813522412 9780813522418
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-214) and index.
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