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- catalog abstract ""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." "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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b9281197.
- catalog coverage "United States Armed Forces Political activity.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description ""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." "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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Happy Veterans' Day -- The Soldier Ideal and American Culture: The Citizen-Soldier, the Fighter, and the Fifties -- GI Dissent and War Resistance in Vietnam -- The GI Movement in the United States -- The Veterans' Antiwar Movement -- Military Resistance as a Social Movement -- The Transformation of the Citizen-Soldier: War and Reconstruction.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-214) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 219 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0813522412 (cloth : alk. paper) :".
- catalog isPartOf "Perspectives on the sixties".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Armed Forces Political activity.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "959.704/373 20".
- catalog subject "DS559.62.U6 M67 1996".
- catalog subject "Soldiers United States.".
- catalog subject "Veterans United States.".
- catalog subject "Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Protest movements United States.".
- catalog subject "Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Veterans United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Happy Veterans' Day -- The Soldier Ideal and American Culture: The Citizen-Soldier, the Fighter, and the Fifties -- GI Dissent and War Resistance in Vietnam -- The GI Movement in the United States -- The Veterans' Antiwar Movement -- Military Resistance as a Social Movement -- The Transformation of the Citizen-Soldier: War and Reconstruction.".
- catalog title "The new winter soldiers : GI and veteran dissent during the Vietnam era / Richard R. Moser.".
- catalog type "text".