The History of American Veterans

Veterans’ part in American history has been more important than you would typically think, and I’m not talking about their time during war. That’s military history. It’s when they return, what veterans have done to shape this country. In so many ways, our issues have driven substantial change. It is a crazy complex story, and I can only briefly cover it here in two parts.
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Ortiz, Stephen R. ed. Veterans’ Policies, Veterans’ Politics: New Perspectives on Veterans in the Modern United States. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. https://amzn.to/2OoZbiM

Rostker, Bernard. Providing for the Casualties of War: The American Experience through World War II. Santa Monica, Cal.: RAND Corporation, 2013. https://amzn.to/2LTJe2f

Szatmary, David P. Shays’ Rebellion: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1980. https://amzn.to/2K45OmZ

Williams, Tony. America’s Beginnings: The Dramatic Events that Shaped a Nation’s Character. Lanham, Mar.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010. https://amzn.to/2OqSSen

Kruse, Kevin M. and Stephen Tuck. Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2012. https://amzn.to/2K5hTbF

Ortiz, Stephen R. ed. Veterans’ Policies, Veterans’ Politics: New Perspectives on Veterans in the Modern United States. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. https://amzn.to/2OoZbiM

Rostker, Bernard. I Want You!: The Evolution of the All-Volunteer Force. Santa Monica, Cal.: The RAND corporation, 2006. https://amzn.to/2LTJ5vJ
Rostker, Bernard. Providing for the Casualties of War: The American Experience through World War II. Santa Monica, Cal.: RAND Corporation, 2013. https://amzn.to/2LTJe2f

Scott, Lawrence P. and William M. Womack Sr. Double V: The Civil Rights Struggle of the Tuskegee Airmen. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1992. https://amzn.to/2mNN5mF

Waters, Walter W. BEF: The Whole Story of the Bonus Army. Cary, N.Car.: Cincinnatus Press, 2007. https://amzn.to/2LyPoJa

Wynn, Neil A. The African American Experience during World War II. Lanham, Mar.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2010. https://amzn.to/2NPOtAK

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Wiki:
A veteran is one who has served in the armed forces, especially one who has served in combat. The National Guard and Reserve is included. It is especially applied to those who served for an entire career, usually of 20 years or more, but may be applied for someone who has only served one tour of duty. A common misconception is that only those who have served in combat or those who have retired from active duty can be called military veterans.

President Abraham Lincoln, in his second inaugural address in 1865 towards the end of the American Civil War, famously called for good treatment of veterans: "[T]o care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan". The American Civil War produced veterans' organizations, such as the Grand Army of the Republic and United Confederate Veterans. The treatment of veterans changed after the First World War. In the years following, discontented veterans became a source of instability. They could quickly organize, had links to the army and often had arms themselves. The Bonus Army of unemployed veterans was one of the most important protest movements of the Great Depression, marching on Washington, D.C. to get a claimed bonus now that Congress had promised them decades in the future.
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