... . “Dean's Responses to the Larson Report on the Faculty System at the Air Force Academy.” History of the U.S. Air Force Academy, 1 July 2004–30 June 2005, DF-2 . McDermott Library Special Collections, U.S. Air Force Academy, USAF Academy, CO . Burk James . 2000 . “The Citizen Soldier...

...Justin Voigt This essay discusses the personal experiences of a US Army soldier transitioning from military life to academia, focusing on lessons of isolation learned from the author's experiences teaching foreign soldiers and then international students. These lessons can inform our approach...

... perspectives, worldviews, and cultures different from their own. As a literature teacher, he claims to use writings by American soldiers and journalists, North and South Vietnamese soldiers, Vietnamese Buddhists, and ethnic American poets in order to have students reflect on the many perspectives on the war...

...Joyce Wexler The military historian Yuval Noah Harari accounts for the enduring allure of war by calling attention to a change in soldiers' memoirs that occurred in the mid-eighteenth century. Soldiers began to describe how they felt rather than what they did. Harari introduces the term flesh...

...” muscle-­bound Rambo and other raggedy-­and-­thin Ameri- can soldiers? I didn’t know the answers to these questions because the film doesn’t provide them. I was not given a chance to hear the other side of the Vietnam War story. The film is typical of most Hollywood films about Viet- nam, where...

...” muscle-­bound Rambo and other raggedy-­and-­thin Ameri- can soldiers? I didn’t know the answers to these questions because the film doesn’t provide them. I was not given a chance to hear the other side of the Vietnam War story. The film is typical of most Hollywood films about Viet- nam, where...

... that had profoundly shaped my identity, and it was specifically the study of English and rhetoric that gave me the tools I needed to bridge my internal divide between soldier and student. ■ There seemed to me to be no two more disparate groups — the rigid conser- vatism of my military and its...

... Renaissance through The Crisis  379 opens with a cover photo of a soldier and includes profiles of World War I sol- diers. The issue, therefore, focuses on the achievements of African American soldiers in the bloody war overseas, but it also focuses on the bloody race war in the United States happening...

... (accessed 27 April 2016) . Tomlinson Chris . 2008 . “In Iraq, Soldiers' Lives Are on the Line—and Online.” Seattle Times , 17 March , seattletimes.com/html/iraq/2004286903_iraqnet17.html . Roundtable Guest Editors’ Introduction Veterans...

... Jima (1999), Ron Stein- man s The Soldiers Story: Vietnam in Their Own Words (1999), and Jennie Ethell Chancey and William R. Forstchen s Hot Shots: An Oral History of the Air Force Combat Pilots of the Korean War (2000). Penny Summerfield s Reconstructing Women s Wartime Lives: Discourse...

... and early twentieth centuries included distant and unfa- miliar colonies, and its constituent singularity,  individual citizens, who in their shared citizenship, constitute the nation. Just as Great War memorials like cenotaphs and tombs of the unknown soldier cultivate national memo- rial imaginings...

..., on the one hand, and the militant Israeli settlers who protested the dismantling of settlements on the Gaza strip, on the other, and, in addition, intermediate positions, which might include that of an organization such as Yesh Gvul, comprising Israeli soldiers who refuse to serve in the occupied...

... presuming more knowledge than the reader might bring. More complicatedly, Jewish students’ casual references in their writings to army service, an experience unshared by Arab Israelis, was necessarily divisive. The very image of a soldier registers in opposite ways for these two groups. For almost all...

..., with Mary Swander, of The Healing Circle: Authors Writing of Recovery (1998). She has just completed a book of essays, Just beneath My Skin: Autobiography and Self- Discovery (forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press), and a novel, The Girls from Soldier Creek. She is currently writing a second...

.... The teacher and the soldier walk into their respective fields of action prepared either to drive resolutely and creatively toward a clearly understood goal or, less felicitously, to execute a preplanned course of action that grinds ahead without regard to the fog of war or student incomprehension...

... dramatically, Besa read of her opposition to suicide, calling it “weak- ness,” a choice never justified even in times of immense suffering. To support her view, she described the persecution her Albanian family suffered at the hands of Serbian soldiers in the 1990s, the loss of home, the fear of the ever...

... history, Japanese American internment during World War II. Furthermore, this backstory is hidden in plain sight for much of the story, since Esther embarks on the bus ride to visit her husband, Buro, who is recovering at the soldiers home from a flare- up of a war injury. While Buro s war service frames...

...: Verso. Scatamburlo, Valerie L. 1998 . Soldiers of Misfortune: The New Right's Culture War and the Politics of Political Correctness . New York: Peter Lang. Scott, Joan. 1995 . “Multiculturalism and the Politics of Identity.” In The Identity in Question , ed. John Rajchman, 3 -12. New York...

... of mute circumspection to help new hires get a feel for the pulse of their departments. Although the good soldier in me cringes when Lang encourages new faculty to work on lesson plans during committee meet- 394  pedagogy ings or to “get up one morning and cancel a day’s worth of classes” (67, 112...

... and family wounds. Indeed, the period features many variations on the theme of the innocent (usually motherless or even entirely orphaned) young woman who falls victim to the dash and bravado of a crisply uniformed soldier (much less often a seaman) who turns out to be ruthlessly unprincipled in his...