Cultural Narratives and the Therapeutic Motif: The Political Containment of Vietnam Veterans

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Not since the Civil War had the fabric of American society been so tested. Passionate support was equaled by opposition. And while foreign policy and national morality were debated and protested, the death toll mounted inexorably. Vietnam was the nation's most divisive war in a century; with the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, America turned its attention inward, repressing memory of that lost war. And as the personification of that war, America's Vietnam veterans were shunned and forgotten, relegated to the corners of society. But one veteran, unexceptional by all appearances, became consumed with the idea that those who sacrificed must ...

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