Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends, and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs
by Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven
(Duke University Press, 2022)
This country is really good at sending young people off to war, killing people, animals, plants, and the environment overall while destroying buildings and highways, and disrupting people's lives and societies wherever the US invades. The US has turned this into an art form. What they haven't done well is taking care of the women and men they send to do their dirty work once these service members return from the field of battle; or even from their term of "service." This new book by Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven does an excellent job of pulling the covers back and illuminating the governmental disservice to these veterans.
This book gets behind all of the "Yankee Doodle Dandy" bullshit that is propagated throughout our society about military service.... Read More
