Soldiers once : my brother and the lost dreams of America's veterans / Catherine Whitney.

Soldiers once : my brother and the lost dreams of America's veterans /

Catherine Whitney's brother, Vietnam veteran Jim Schuler, died at just fifty-three years old, while living in a flophouse. It had been sixteen years since, in one of his drunken rages, he had last seen his family. He was one of countless veterans who never recovered from the trauma of war and t...

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Main Author: Whitney, Catherine, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Schuler, James Walter, > -2001.
Whitney, Catherine, > 1950- > Family.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Veterans > United States.
Veterans > United States > Biography.
Veterans > United States > Social conditions.
Veterans > Mental health > United States.
Veterans > Services for > United States.
Brothers > United States > Biography.
Biographies.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix; Prologue: Taps 1; 1 Final Journey Home 9; 2 An Army of Youth 21; 3 Jim's War 37; 4 Dust in the Wind 63; 5 Full Retreat 87; 6 All That You Can't Be 97; 7 Brother Lost 115; 8 Do You Remember Me? 127; 9 Finding Jim 145; 10 Watch Fires Burning 161; Epilogue: Dear Brother 175; RESOURCES FOR VETERANS 179; NOTES 189; INDEX 205.

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