[For Veterans Day, I’ve AmericanStudied five examples of texts that can help us remember and engage with veterans’ experiences from five of our defining wars. Leading up to this weekend post on 21st century veterans’ stories!]
Three texts
and voices that can help us commemorate 21st century veterans’
communities:
1)
Miyoko Hikiji’s memoir All
I Could Be: My Story as a Woman Warrior in Iraq (2013), on which see
that hyperlinked post;
2)
Phil Klay’s short story collection Redeployment
(2014), on the stunning and heartbreaking title story of which see that
article;
3)
and Ross Caputi, Richard Hil, and Donna
Mulhearn’s The
Sacking of Fallujah: A People’s History (2019); Ross is an Iraq War
veteran as well as one of my favorite former students, and this project
embodies veteran
critical patriotism amazingly well;
Next
series starts Monday,
Ben
PS. What
do you think? Veterans’ stories and/or texts you’d share?
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