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Crowe, Ambrose. "War and conflict : the Australian Vietnam Veterans Association." Monash University, School of Political and Social Inquiry, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9333.

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Hiddlestone, Janine Frances. "An uneasy legacy Vietnam veterans and Australian society /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/1113/.

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Marsala, Miles Steven. "Baby Boomers and the Vietnam War: A life Course Approach to Aging Vietnam Veterans." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5999.

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The sheer size of the baby boomer cohort has prompted a great deal of research on life outcomes and potential social strain or benefit of such a large cohort. A major contingency for the baby boomers was the experience of the Vietnam War. Many young men had their life course trajectories interrupted when they were drafted to military service or enrolled in college in an effort to evade the draft. This study uses the Life Family Legacies data to investigate how the Vietnam War may have affected later-life health outcomes of this cohort. Comparing physical health as captured by activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), this study found that baby boomer veterans' outcomes are similar to those of their nonveteran peers. When comparing mental health outcomes by prevalence of PTSD, findings show that those veterans who served in combat or combat support units are much more likely to show persistent signs of PTSD. Findings from this study suggest that the effects of combat are a crucial distinction when comparing outcomes between veterans and nonveterans.
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Wood, John A. "Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/153677.

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This dissertation is a comprehensive study of the content, author demographics, publishing history, and media representation of the most prominent Vietnam veteran memoirs published between 1967 and 2005. These personal narratives are important because they have affected the collective memory of the Vietnam War for decades. The primary focus of this study is an analysis of how veterans' memoirs depict seven important topics: the demographics of American soldiers, combat, the Vietnamese people, race relations among U.S. troops, male-female relationships, veterans' postwar lives, and war-related political issues. The central theme that runs through these analyses is that these seven topics are depicted in ways that show veteran narratives represent constructed memories of the past, not infallible records of historical events. One reoccurring indication of this is that while memoirists' portrayals are sometimes supported by other sources and reflect historical reality, other times they clash with facts and misrepresent what actually happened. Another concern of this dissertation is the relationship of veteran memoirs to broader trends in public remembrance of the Vietnam War, and how and why some books, but not others, were able to achieve recognition and influence. These issues are explored by charting the publishing history of veteran narratives over a thirty-eight year period, and by analyzing media coverage of these books. This research indicates that mainstream editors and reviewers selected memoirs that portrayed the war in a negative manner, but rejected those that espoused either unambiguous anti- or pro-war views. By giving some types of narratives preference over others, the media and the publishing industry helped shape the public's collective understanding of the war.
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Payne, Karen S. "Social support and post-traumatic stress symptomatology in Vietnam veterans /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487259580263462.

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Haws, Catherine Bourg. "Remembering Vietnam War Veterans: Interpreting History Through New Orleans Monuments and Memorials." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2081.

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ABSTRACT This thesis is concerned with the question of how America’s citizen soldiers are remembered and how their services can be interpreted through monuments and memorials. The paper discusses the concept of memory and the functions of memorialization. It explores whether and how monuments and memorials portray the difficulties, hardships, horror, costs, and consequences of armed combat. The political motivations behind the design, formation and establishment of the edifices are also probed. The paper considers the Vietnam War monuments and memorials erected by Americans and Vietnam expatriates in New Orleans, Louisiana, and examines their illustrative and educational usefulness. Results reflect that although political benefits accrued from the realization of the memorial structures in question, far more important, palliative and meaningful motives brought about their construction. They also demonstrate that, when understood, monuments and memorials can be historically useful.
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Moody, Janice Lynn, and Ron Robinson. "Operation Iraqi freedom and mental health of Vietnam veterans." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2920.

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The purpose of this study was to provide a clear conceptualization of how Vietnam veterans who have previously been diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) respond and cope with the emotional and psychological effects presented by the present war in Iraq.
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Cockram, David. "Role and treatment of early maladaptive schemas in Vietnam veterans with PTSD /." Murdoch University Digital Theses Program, 2009. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20090924.134704.

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Barbour, Daniel R. "A script for a ministry tool to reach Vietnam veterans for Christ." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Smith, Marisa M. "For God, country, and manhood : the social construction of posttraumatic stress disorder among Vietnam veterans /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3031947.

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Woytek, Dennis Stephen. "Public memory : how Vietnam veterans are using technology to make private memory public /." View full text online, 2009. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/etd,98743.

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Herman, Thomas S. "Humping it on their Backs: A Material Culture Examination of the Vietnam Veterans’ Experience as Told Through the Objects they Carried." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849688/.

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The materials of war, defined as what soldiers carry into battle and off the battlefield, have much to offer as a means of identifying and analyzing the culture of those combatants. The Vietnam War is extremely rich in culture when considered against the changing political and social climate of the United States during the 1960s and 70s. Determining the meaning of the materials carried by Vietnam War soldiers can help identify why a soldier is fighting, what the soldier’s fears are, explain certain actions or inactions in a given situation, or describe the values and moral beliefs that governed that soldier’s conduct. “Carry,” as a word, often refers to something physical that can be seen, touched, smelled, or heard, but there is also the mental material, which does not exist in the physical space, that soldiers collect in their experiences prior to, during, and after battle. War changes the individual soldier, and by analyzing what he or she took (both physical and mental), attempts at self-preservation or defense mechanisms to harden the body and mind from the harsh realities of war are revealed. In the same respect, what the soldiers brought home is also a means of preservation; preserving those memories of their experiences adds validity and meaning to their experiences. An approach employing aspects of psychology, sociology, and cultural theory demonstrates that any cookie-cutter answer or characterization of Vietnam veterans is unstable at best, and that a much more complex picture develops from a multidisciplinary analysis of the soldiers who fought the war in Vietnam.
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Westerblom, Brittany. "The Vietnam Draft: In Their Own Words : Draft Motivated Enlistees-Why did they enlist and serve?" Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Historia, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-5460.

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This essay examines why Vietnam veterans, who were draft motivated enlistees, enlisted when drafted or threatened with the draft. Data is taken from 63 oral history interviews conducted by The Vietnam Archive Oral History Project at Texas Tech University and is analyzed using the phenomenological research approach. The background of this paper briefly explains the Vietnam Draft and the draft avoidance options available to those men who were drafted. The results section utilizes quotes from the oral history interviews to show the main themes of why men chose to enlist when faced with the draft. The discussion section discusses these themes in a wider context and brings up areas for further research.
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Ryan, Dorothy. "A study of Vietnam combat veteran's perception toward depression: Ten years after the war." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1985. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2038.

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Rennex, Bronwyn Gai. "Life with Birds: an archaeology of war and loss in the suburbs." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/24648.

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Life with Birds is an investigation of the disjunction between public and private experiences of the Vietnam war and its aftermath. The creative non-fiction component of the thesis juxtaposes historical documents with family stories, photographs and memories in order to situate military history in the home and disrupt the binaries around dominant war tropes, such as the heroic/traumatic binary. It focuses on the everyday, the small scale and the ordinary as worthy of historical and cultural attention and aims to redress the silences and erasures in bureaucracies, archives and within families by reimagining or repopulating them with found materials, a combination of information, observation and guesswork. This lyric methodology was developed using concepts of Toni Morrison’s ‘literary archaeology’, Marianne Hirsch’s ‘postmemory’ and Hélène Cixous’ l’écriture féminine, as well as Claudia Rankine’s deployment of the lyric form in Citizen. The exegesis examines writings and discourses around war in Australia that erase the experiences and legacy of certain war veterans and their families, including mine. In it I discuss the disconnect between national mythologisation and commemoration of Anzac and Vietnam veterans and the lived experiences of veteran families, such as impacts of war trauma, bureaucratic intransigence and veteran health and suicide. This thesis highlights the ongoing negotiations between public and private lives in an attempt to broaden the conversation around the invisible or erased impacts of war in Australia, particularly for women and the children of war veterans.
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Michel, Karl Frederick. "Drawing on experience a study of eighteen artists from the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum collection /." Full text available online (restricted access), 2001. http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/ts/theses/Michel.pdf.

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Cooper, Nancy Allen. "Imaginal flooding as a supplemental treatment for Vietnam veterans suffering re-experiencing stress." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49838.

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A delayed type of combat-related disorder among Vietnam veterans has resulted in increasing numbers of such veterans seeking mental health assistance and the inclusion of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a new classification in the DSM III. With symptoms of re-experiencing, emotional numbing, hyper-alertness, sleep disturbance, survival guilt and avoidance, PTSD can be extremely disruptive of social, intellectual, and occupational functioning. While imaginal flooding of combat scenes has been shown to dramatically reduce PTSD symptomatology, the only supporting evidence published to date has been case studies. This is the first controlled study of the treatment using a clinical sample of the population. Subjects were sixteen male Vietnam combat—exposed veterans who sought out patient treatment at the VAMC in Salem, Virginia. Aged 33 to 40, they all suffered from PTSD. A yoked design was utilized in which one group (£;8) received a supplemental flooding treatment and the other (ns=8) did not. All subjects received standard hospital out patient treatment which generally consisted of both Vietnam Veteran group and individual therapy.
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Libka, Darby R. "Reading the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. Through Multiple Realities." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1618415487446912.

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Ogden, Carolyn Bong Ai. "The incidence of sexual harassment among female Vietnam War era veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1456.

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Williams, David Zamon. "Examining the relationship between race-related stressors and post-traumatic stress disorder among African American male Vietnam veterans." Online access for everyone, 2007. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Fall2007/D_Williams_100107.pdf.

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Calvert, William Emory. "Vietnam veteran levels of combat : perceived and actual violence." Virtual Press, 1985. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/472674.

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The purpose of the study was to investigate if a relationship exists between levels of combat experienced by Vietnam veterans and later perceptions of violence, violent attitudes, and violent participants: heavy combat Vietnam veterans; light combat Vietnam veterans; Vietnam era veterans; and non-veteran (civilian) friends of Vietnam veterans.Calvert's Brief Demographic Questionnaire (BDQ), Part 2, checked pre-military predisposition toward having later problems; Figley's Combat Experience Questionnaire (CEO) divided Vietnam combat veterans into heavy and light categories; Wilson's Vietnam Veteran Scenario and Questionnaire examined perceptions of violence by Vietnam veterans; Bardis' A Violence Scale investigated violent attitudes; and Straus' Conflict Tactics (CT) Scales (adapted) measured behavioral violence. The .05 level of statistical significance was used.Findings1. None of the four groups were predisposed to having later problems as measured by Calvert's BDO, Part 2.2. There were no significant differences among groups in perceiving the Vietnam veteran in Wilson's Scenario as being violent.3. Bardis' scale indicated no group differences in terms of having violent attitudes.4. Vietnam combat veterans did not score significantly higher on a majority <6 of 10) of CT Scale items measuring violent behavior.Conclusions1. Based upon the results of this study, any problems Vietnam combat veterans might have with violence seem unrelated to their pre-military experiences. Also, their experiences in Vietnam may or may not be related to later violent behavior.2. Previous combat may lower the threshold in perceiving violence.3. Levels of combat appear to be unrelated to later violent attitudes.4. Neither heavy nor light combat Vietnam veterans appear to engage in violent behavior more than their peers.Recommendations1. Future studies should continue to utilize Figley's Combat Experience Scale and Straus' Conflict Tactics Scales (adapted) as standard tools in Vietnam veteran research.2. Future research should include a check of pre-military predisposition.3. It is recommended that future research utilize a larger Vietnam veteran sample to see: (1) if heavy combat veterans will then score significantly higher on a behavioral violence measure; and (2) if Vietnam era veterans will outscore light combat vets, and, if so, why?
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Murray, Susan E. "Working alliance and session impact in career counseling for Vietnam era veterans with and without post-traumatic stress disorder /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9842555.

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Scarr, Edward. "Subjectivity in crisis : an ethnographic analysis of subjectivity in a veteran motorcycle club." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/155538.

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This study is an ethnographic analysis of an Australian veteran motorcycle club and its members. Two goals have directed this research. The first goal was to shed light on the War Fighters Motorcycle Club and its part in what is a secretive and inaccessible subculture by means of original ethnographic research. To achieve this I used the data collection methods of qualitative interviews and participant observation. The second goal was to theorise the experiences of club members who are also Vietnam War veterans, using a grounded theory methodology and drawing upon a tradition in continental philosophy. A theoretical model adapted from the work of Nietzsche and Warren was developed to theorise their changing sense of personal identity as Vietnam veterans and motorcycle club members. This model represents an original framework for theorising subjectivity that has undergone a form of crisis. Three key phases, theorised as rupture, disconnection and reconnection, were identified in the changing subjectivity of these veteran bikers: their return from Vietnam to a hostile Australian reception, their ongoing feelings of isolation and a lack of acceptance, and, for some, a sense of recovered identity. This analysis of members of the War Fighters, in their double liminal status as veterans and bikers, has provided the opportunity for an exploration of the link between experiential and interpretive conditions of acting upon a coherent sense of self. This framework may also have useful application to other groups who have experienced significant trauma.
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Jacobs, Marianne Scherer. "The best of times, the worst of times : the Vietnam experiences of and post-traumatic stress disorder among female nurse veterans /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6427.

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Chen, Wei-Li Jasmine. "Exploring visitor meanings of place in the National Capital Parks--Central." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2000. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1761.

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Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 110 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-78).
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Fisher, Bari S. "Development, diagnosis and treatment of post traumatic stress disorder and the Vietnam veteran population." PDXScholar, 1986. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3596.

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Over the past 15 years, mental health professionals have seen an increasing number of Vietnam combat veterans suffering from stress disorders resulting from the trauma of combat and continued exposure to life threatening situations. Prior to 1980, professional repudiation of and hostility toward Vietnam veterans and toward a clinical reality of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was common while nondiagnosis and nontreatment was prevalent
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Wilt, Ashley. "Entering Nam: A Comparative Study of the Entrance Experiences of Volunteer and Drafted Service Members into the Military During the Vietnam War." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5576.

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Many historians have conducted oral history interviews with Vietnam War veterans in an attempt to offer a more personal perspective to the study of the Vietnam War; however, most historians do not consciously differentiate between drafted and volunteer veterans. Identifying whether a veteran was drafted into service or volunteered is critical because the extent to which this service was voluntary or coerced may affect the way a veteran remembers his military service. By conducting oral histories, one can consciously delineate service members who volunteered as opposed to those who were drafted to determine if the veterans' experiences change based on the nature of their entry into the military. Additionally, examining the implementation of a national draft and its effects on service members' experiences will offer a better understanding of American military history. While much of the attention of scholars has been on drafted soldiers in Vietnam, little research has been conducted on the experience of the volunteer soldier. This study relies on oral history interviews conducted with volunteer and drafted service members of the Vietnam War to determine if there were differences between draftees and volunteers based on their entrance into the military. The research and oral history interviews with the two veteran groups establishes that the dissent detailed by draft protesters was not always the case and service members, volunteers and draftees alike, more often than not accepted their military service. The interviewed veterans' responses suggest that resistance to military service during the Vietnam War may not have been as great as one might think given the attention that has been placed on the anti-draft movement.
ID: 031001475; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Adviser: Connie Lester.; Co-adviser: Barbara Gannon.; Title from PDF title page (viewed July 15, 2013).; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2012.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 74-81).
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Saindon, Brent Allen. "Toward a Post-Structural Monumentality." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5346/.

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This study addresses a tension in contemporary studies of public memory between ideology criticism and postmodern critique. Both strategies of reading public memory rely on a representational logic derived from the assumption that the source for comparison of a memory text occurs in a more fundamental text or event. Drawing heavily from Michel Foucault, the study proposes an alternative to a representational reading strategy based on the concepts of regularity, similitude, articulation, and cultural formation. The reading of Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Galveston County Vietnam Memorial serves as an example of a non-representational regularity enabled by the cultural formation of pastoral power.
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Howell, Marshall Z. "Veteran : a narrative nonfiction account of a warrior's journey toward healing." Master's thesis, CardinalScholar 1.0, 2010. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1572307.

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Carval, Sylvie. "Accueil et réinsertion des vétérans de la guerre du Viêt-nam, vus a travers la presse américaine [1966-1978]." Thesis, Paris 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA030123.

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Cette thèse étudie la représentation de l’accueil et de la réinsertion des vétérans du Viêt-nam dans deux quotidiens américains de qualité, le New York Times et le Washington Post, de 1966 à 1978. La comparaison entre les deux journaux est complétée par les analyses de deux hebdomadaires, The Nation et Newsweek, et d’un bimensuel, la National Review, qui balayent toute la gamme des points de vue sur le sujet. Deux périodes peuvent être distinguées : de 1966 à 1970, la réintégration des anciens combattants semble être facile, selon les publications. De 1971 à 1978, la couverture médiatique s’intensifie dans un premier temps, du fait des difficultés de réinsertion que les Vietvets rencontrent et osent enfin exprimer avec force ; la presse paraît ensuite se désintéresser progressivement d’eux. L’évolution, dans les journaux, de la représentation des vétérans et de leur réinsertion reflète l’évolution de la société et de l’économie américaines. Si les deux quotidiens s’adressent, a priori, à des lectorats voisins, les réalités qu’ils choisissent de montrer, en les déformant suivant leur biais idéologique, divergent souvent. Il s’agit également de voir dans quelle mesure leurs représentations ont pu aider la réinsertion des anciens combattants ou, au contraire, la rendre plus délicate
This thesis studies the reception and the reintegration in society of Vietnam war veterans as they are represented in two American dailies, The New York Times and The Washington Post. To this comparison between the two newspapers are added the analyses of two weeklies, The Nation and Newsweek, and a bimonthly, National Review, which provide a complete range of the various point of views on the subject. Two periods stand out: from 1966 to 1970, the reintegration of the former soldiers seemed to be easy, according to the newspapers. From 1971 to 1978, the coverage by the media first intensified owing to the difficulties of reintegration that the Vietvets faced and dared to voice loudly for the first time; the press then appeared to progressively lose interest in them. The evolution, in the newpapers, of the representation of the veterans and of their reintegration mirrored the evolution of American society and economy. If both dailies a priori addressed the same kind of readers, the reality that they chose to present and distort through their ideological bias often differed. The thesis also tries to show how their representations may have helped or hindered the reintegration of Vietvets in society
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Tsukayama, John K. "By any means necessary : an interpretive phenomenological analysis study of post 9/11 American abusive violence in Iraq." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4510.

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This study examines the phenomenon of abusive violence (AV) in the context of the American Post-9/11 Counter-terrorism and Counter-insurgency campaigns. Previous research into atrocities by states and their agents has largely come from examinations of totalitarian regimes with well-developed torture and assassination institutions. The mechanisms influencing willingness to do harm have been examined in experimental studies of obedience to authority and the influences of deindividuation, dehumanization, context and system. This study used Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to examine the lived experience of AV reported by fourteen American military and intelligence veterans. Participants were AV observers, objectors, or abusers. Subjects described why AV appeared sensible at the time, how methods of violence were selected, and what sense they made of their experiences after the fact. Accounts revealed the roles that frustration, fear, anger and mission pressure played to prompt acts of AV that ranged from the petty to heinous. Much of the AV was tied to a shift in mission view from macro strategic aims of CT and COIN to individual and small group survival. Routine hazing punishment soldiers received involving forced exercise and stress positions made similar acts inflicted on detainees unrecognizable as abusive. Overt and implied permissiveness from military superiors enabled AV extending to torture, and extra-judicial killings. Attempting to overcome feelings of vulnerability, powerlessness and rage, subjects enacted communal punishment through indiscriminate beatings and shooting. Participants committed AV to amuse themselves and humiliate their enemies; some killed detainees to force confessions from others, conceal misdeeds, and avoid routine paperwork. Participants realized that AV practices were unnecessary, counter-productive, and self-damaging. Several reduced or halted their AV as a result. The lived experience of AV left most respondents feeling guilt, shame, and inadequacy, whether they committed abuse or failed to stop it.
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Perri, Margaret Ellen. "Witnesses to war: The war stories of women Vietnam veterans." 1998. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9823764.

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From 1962 to 1973 approximately 11,000 military women and an unknown number of civilian American women served in Vietnam during the war. Despite an ongoing fascination with the war, there has been little interest in the war stories of women veterans. Academic research in this area is shamefully lacking. This study was designed to focus attention on the war stories of women Vietnam veterans. It is motivated by the striking lack of resources or attention paid to the development of treatment models which can be helpful to women veterans who suffer with posttraumatic stress disorder as a result of their involvement in the war. This study was designed to explore the potential of storytelling as a way to help women who were in Vietnam heal from trauma. A narrative research methodology was used to record the war stories of five women Vietnam veterans. The stories which are included in this dissertation are those of three military nurses, one Red Cross worker, and one other civilian woman who worked in an "in country" refugee camp. The stories, including the author's own, are told in each woman veteran's authentic voice. The women veterans' war stories serve as the centerpiece of this dissertation. Of equal interest to the researcher was the interactive process of story making and the relationship between the storyteller and the witness which resulted in a resonating gestalt. Storytelling is healing when told in an empathic environment. Healing is relational. Narrative research methodology is mutually empowering for both the researcher and subject. Each of the women spoke of her repeated attempts to tell her story which went unheard, ignored or distorted. The principle factor which contributes to the efficacy of the model explored in this research is the quality of the witnessing.
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Hiddlestone, Janine Francis. "An uneasy legacy: Vietnam veterans and Australian society." Thesis, 2004. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/1113/1/01front.pdf.

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The Vietnam War is remembered more for the controversy than the war itself. This has contributed to the stereotyping of the war and those who fought in it. War is always political in nature, but the politics of the Vietnam War provided a series of distinctive complications that heralded a divergence from Australia's traditional approaches to war and remembrance. This thesis examines the origins, veracity and consequences of the veteran stereotypes. It uses a range of sources, including documents, film, and interviews to explore the experience of veterans since the war ended – and ultimately their struggle to find a suitable place in Australian history. There is a methodological focus on oral history, based on a group of veterans in the North Queensland region. The study finds that there is neither a simple nor a single explanation, but rather a series of events, decisions and outcomes accumulating over a period of time. Veteran-related issues emerged initially in the United States of America, but this does not indicate that they were purely American problems and responses. Rather, the issues were addressed there first. The relative size of the different veteran populations played an important role, with the Australian contingent smaller and more widely spread, geographically. However, some of the more extreme images emanating from the US were applied to the emerging representations in Australia. The impact of those stereotypes is complex: while they were most often a burden to veterans, they could also offer some advantages, being concurrently helpful and hurtful. This made finding a suitable identity problematic, as few veterans wanted to identify with the stereotypes, but nonetheless sometimes found themselves trapped by them. Rather than discovering the popularly perceived group of disturbed malcontents, however, the broad scope of the sources (particularly the interviews) revealed a group of men searching for an historical context into which to place their experiences both during the war and in the following years. The evidence revealed a group of average Australians who, for a period thirty years ago, were asked to make the ultimate sacrifice. The interviews offered the opportunity to provide context to a difficult history, contributing not only to the study of the conflict, but to a wider Australian public memory in a country whose war stories have had so much impact.
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Hiddlestone, Janine Francis. "An uneasy legacy : : Vietnam veterans and Australian society /." 2004. http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/1113/1/01front.pdf.

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The Vietnam War is remembered more for the controversy than the war itself. This has contributed to the stereotyping of the war and those who fought in it. War is always political in nature, but the politics of the Vietnam War provided a series of distinctive complications that heralded a divergence from Australia’s traditional approaches to war and remembrance. This thesis examines the origins, veracity and consequences of the veteran stereotypes. It uses a range of sources, including documents, film, and interviews to explore the experience of veterans since the war ended – and ultimately their struggle to find a suitable place in Australian history. There is a methodological focus on oral history, based on a group of veterans in the North Queensland region. The study finds that there is neither a simple nor a single explanation, but rather a series of events, decisions and outcomes accumulating over a period of time. Veteran-related issues emerged initially in the United States of America, but this does not indicate that they were purely American problems and responses. Rather, the issues were addressed there first. The relative size of the different veteran populations played an important role, with the Australian contingent smaller and more widely spread, geographically. However, some of the more extreme images emanating from the US were applied to the emerging representations in Australia. The impact of those stereotypes is complex: while they were most often a burden to veterans, they could also offer some advantages, being concurrently helpful and hurtful. This made finding a suitable identity problematic, as few veterans wanted to identify with the stereotypes, but nonetheless sometimes found themselves trapped by them. Rather than discovering the popularly perceived group of disturbed malcontents, however, the broad scope of the sources (particularly the interviews) revealed a group of men searching for an historical context into which to place their experiences both during the war and in the following years. The evidence revealed a group of average Australians who, for a period thirty years ago, were asked to make the ultimate sacrifice. The interviews offered the opportunity to provide context to a difficult history, contributing not only to the study of the conflict, but to a wider Australian public memory in a country whose war stories have had so much impact.
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Akuna, Peter. "Island Brothers/Island Blood: The Stories of Samoan Vietnam War Veterans." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24264.

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Watkins, Nicholas Jay. "The journey back to the world : exploring the psychological effect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Vietnam War combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder /." 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3243021.

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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-11, Section: A, page: 4014. Adviser: Kathryn Anthony. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 208-233) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.
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Shim, Juhyung. "Haunted Borderland : The Politics on the Border War against China in post-Cold War Vietnam." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/9446.

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This dissertation deals with the history and memory of the Border War with China in contemporary Vietnam. Due to its particularity as a war between two neighboring socialist countries in Cold War Asia, the Border War has been a sensitive topic in Vietnam. While political sensitivity regarding the national past derives largely from the Party-State, the history and memory of the war has permeated Vietnamese society. The war's legacy can be seen in anti-China sentiments that, in the globalized neoliberal order, appear to be reviving alongside post-Cold War nationalism. The Border War against China represented an important nationalist turn for Vietnam. At the same time, the traumatic breakdown of the socialist fraternity cultivated anxiety over domestic and international relations. The recent territorial dispute over the South China Sea, between Vietnam and China, has recalled the history and memory of the war in 1979. The growing anti-China sentiment in Vietnam also interpellates the war as a near future.

As an anthropological approach to the history and memory of war, this dissertation addresses five primary questions: 1) how the historyscape of Vietnam's past has been shifted through politics on the Border War; 2) how the memoryscape involving the Border War has been configured as national and local experience; 3) how the Border War has shaped the politics of ethnic minorities in a border province; 4) why the borderscape in Vietnam constantly affects the politics of the nation-state in the globalized world order; and 5) why the border markets and trade activities have been a realm of competing instantiations of post-Cold War nationalism and global neoliberalism.

In order to tackle these questions, I conducted anthropological fieldwork in Lang Son, a northern border province and Ha Noi, the capital city of Vietnam from 2005 to 2012, and again briefly in 2014. A year of intensive fieldwork from 2008 to 2009 in Lang Son province paved the road to understanding the local history and local people's memory of the Border War in a contemporary social context. This long-term participant observation research in a sensitive border area allowed me to take a comprehensive view of how the memory of the Border War against China plays out in everyday life and affects the livelihood of the border's inhabitants. In Ha Noi, conducting archival research and discussing issues with Vietnamese scholars, I was able to broaden my understanding of Vietnamese national history and the socialist past. Because Vietnam is one of the countries with the fastest growing use of the Internet, I have also closely traced the emergence of on-line debates and the circulation of information over the Internet as a new form of social exchange in Vietnam.

As a conclusion, I suggest that memory and experience have situated Vietnam as a nation-state in a particular mode of post-Cold War nationalism, one which keeps recalling the memory of the Border War in the post-Cold War era. As the national border has been reconfigured by the legacy of war and by fluctuating border trade, the border challenges unbalanced bilateral relations in the neoliberal world order. The edge of the nation-state becomes the edge of neoliberalism in the contemporary world. The Vietnamese border region will continue to recall the horrors of nationalism and internationalism, through the imaginaries of socialist fraternity or in the practices off contemporary neoliberal multilateralism.

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Vietnam, China, Lang Son, the Border War, Memory, the Cold War, the post-Cold War, Neoliberalism.


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Marshall, Richard Paul. "A study of Vietnam veterans' mental health and healthcare consumption." Phd thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/147251.

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Hurle, Robert James. "Mobilising people in the Viet bac : posters, folk poetry and pamphlets in the war against French colonialism." Phd thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151645.

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After the Second World War, many of the former European colonies in Southeast Asia aspired to independence. The French resisted these movements in Indochina even after independence was declared in Vietnam. The Viet Minh fought the first Indochina War against the former colonial masters, using what resources were available to them. France was an industrial power with comparatively vast wealth and military power yet they were fought to a standstill at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. This thesis examines some of the methods used by the Viet Minh to marshal their resources, which comprised the people of Vietnam, particularly from the northern Viet Bac region, to build an opponent that proved equal to one of the large European powers. The techniques used by the Viet Minh leadership focussed closely on the folk traditions and the shared understanding of the history of the people that they wished to engage in the fight for independence. The mobilisation techniques used, including the propaganda employed, proved to be a weapon powerful enough to dislodge the well-armed adversary.
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Stewart, Luke Jonathan. ""A New Kind of War": The Vietnam War and the Nuremberg Principles, 1964-1968." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/8540.

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This thesis explores what Telford Taylor called the “ethos of Nuremberg” and how it shaped antiwar resistance during the Vietnam War in the United States. The Vietnam War was a monumental event in the twentieth century and the conflict provided lawyers, academics, activists, and soldiers the ability to question the legality of the war through the prism of the Nuremberg Principles, the various international treaties and U.S. Constitutional law. As many legal scholars and historians have lamented, the Cold War destroyed hopes for the solidification of an international court empowered to preside over questions of war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace. In the absence of cooperation among the international community, the antiwar movements in the United States and around the world during the Vietnam War utilized these legal instruments to form what I call a war crimes movement from below. A significant component of this challenge was the notion that individual citizens – draft noncooperators, military resisters, tax resisters, and the like – had a responsibility under the Nuremberg Principles to resist an illegal war. In the numerous United States military interventions after World War II, none had been challenged as openly and aggressively as the war in Vietnam. As this thesis will demonstrate, the ideas that crystallized into action at Nuremberg played a major role in this resistance.
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Hocott, Gregory Scott. "Warrior narratives: Vietnam veterans recounting their life experience before, during, and after the war through in-depth phenomenological interviewing." 1997. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9809347.

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Many Vietnam veterans are currently suffering from PTSD. The vast literature on PTSD is grounded in the positivistic paradigm. Treatment approaches in the field of traumatology that are positivistic face significant limitations, including difficulty bearing witness to the survivor, forming a collaborative relationship, and crafting a coherent and meaningful survivor narrative. This author plans to listen to the stories of Vietnam combat veterans within the context of postmodern theory. Based on the theoretical frameworks of narrative and social constructionism, this author will conduct in-depth interviews with Vietnam veterans which will then be transcribed, crafted into narratives, and analyzed for thematic connections, similarities and other elements of narrative analysis. The author seeks to understand trauma in the context of the veteran's life narrative as constructed in interviews.
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Pankhurst, Donna T. "'What is wrong with men?': Revisiting violence against women in conflict and peacebuilding." 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/7984.

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Much has been written about the high rates of rape and other forms of violence against ‘enemy’ women in wartime, and sustained violences against women in post-war contexts. Research on violence against women, recognised as a problem for peace and development and even a threat to international security, has begun to identify and explain contrasts between different locations. The explanations focus on men, their behaviour and ‘masculinities’, some of which, and even some military codes, may even proscribe such violence. By contrast, research on the mental health of male former combatants, and possibly other male survivors of war trauma, suggests that there is a strong risk of them perpetrating violence specifically against women, even in cases where the highest standard of veteran care is expected, but without much explanation. This article considers what potential there is in this topic for lessons in peacebuilding policy and identifies areas for future research.
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King, Sarah. "Jane Fonda's Antiwar Activism and The Myth of Hanoi Jane." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6226.

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This thesis examines Jane Fonda’s antiwar activism during the Vietnam War, focusing on the period from late 1969 through 1973. Her early activism was characterized by frequent protests against the war, speeches at antiwar rallies and college campuses, and involvement with the organization Vietnam Veterans Against the War. In 1971 Fonda organized an antiwar troupe, FTA, which performed antiwar songs and sketches to active-duty servicemen in America and Southeast Asia. Fonda’s notorious trip to North Vietnam is examined in detail, as are her comments in 1973 regarding American POWs. Negative reaction to Fonda’s activism is examined, and the myth of “Hanoi Jane” is traced from its wartime origins through its postwar evolution. The John Kerry-Jane Fonda photograph incident of 2004 is reviewed, and treated as a symptom of decades-long anti-Hanoi Jane ideas, rather than an isolated incident. Fonda’s gender, the media’s treatment of her at various stages, and her own missteps all receive consideration in determining where Jane Fonda ends and the myth of Hanoi Jane begins.
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Porš, Jaroslav. "Reflexe vietnamské války v americké kinematografii od konce šedesátých let 20. století do počátku 21. století." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-327854.

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(in English): This thesis deals with the second war in Indochina (American Vietnam War), its causes, course, political and international contexts and, in particular, its representation in American cinema in the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century. In the main part of this thesis, I introduce the most important films dedicated to the Vietnam War while comparing and showing the different approaches of directors to this topic. I present films that deal not only with the war in Vietnam, but also topics that are immediately connected to it, such as the draft, returning veterans and their problems or war heroes. For each movie I endeavor to show the artistic quality or flaws and emphasize the political attitudes of the directors and their relationship to the Vietnam War.
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Muraoka, Miles Yukito. "Twenty-four hour ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate monitoring in Viet Nam veterans." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/10237.

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Bicknell, Michael John. "Veteran's Odyssey : combat trauma and the long road to treatment (report from VFW Post 6974)." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-4219.

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Combat veterans often return from war with psychological as well as physical injuries. Armed service members who are bodily injured routinely go to hospitals for treatment, first at military hospitals and later in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) system. But those with psychological injuries like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often go years, if not a lifetime, without treatment, in large part because the VA denies their claims with dubious justification. Veterans’ service organizations like the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), the American Legion, and others, as well as state and county governments, have knowledgeable service officers whose job is to help guide veterans through the VA system and through the many appeals that are often needed to get treatment and an adequate disability rating that could result in monetary payments. This report tells the story of one VFW post in Burnet, Texas, its veterans, their families, and how their success in getting treatment for PTSD has positively affected their lives. It has also enabled them, as they recover, to help other veterans seek treatment and win compensatory disability ratings too. The report focuses on one Vietnam veteran, who four decades after his discharge from the Army came to be treated for PTSD.
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Lawrence, Michael Alan Biesecker Barbara A. "Signature remembrance the names of the 9/11 dead and the play of rhetoricity /." 2009. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/307.

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Coxon, Robert Andrew. "Battlefield trauma (exposure, psychiatric diagnosis and outcomes)." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/50423.

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These original data for this research were documented in the clinical diary records of an army psychiatrist on deployment in Vietnam during 1969–70. This study is unique due to the original battlefield diagnosis data used for foundation comparison analysis and longitudinal retrospective case control paired measurement. In battlefield psychiatric assessment diagnostic data recorded in Vietnam during 1969–70 of 119 Australian military servicemen (Experimental group) who presented battlefield trauma exposure reactions were examined. The research case controls (Control group) are 275 Australian Vietnam veterans selected from data at the Australian War Memorial Research Centre. Case control identified participants did not present with medical symptoms in 1969-70 and presented the same demographic profile as the Experimental group population. This research examined whether initial psychiatric illnesses initiated by battlefield trauma exposure in 1969-70 by a cohort of Vietnam veterans would have long term pernicious effects on their physical and psychological health, relationships and employment status. This research compared, PTSD, delayed onset PTSD, severity of combat exposure and depressive symptoms, quality of dyads, general health and quality of life. The analysis of specific demographic variables determined the means, standard deviations, and medians for those continuous variables for both groups from 1969-70 (n=394) and 2006-07 (n=97). The 2006-07 Experimental group (n=21) represents 17.65% and the Control group (n=76) represents 28.15% of the original groups selected and matched from 1969-70 data. These participants completed a battery of psychometric questionnaires and a follow up telephone interview. Demographic variables were evaluated for inclusion as covariates. These demographic variables were correlated with combat exposure and the presentation of PTSD in 1969-70 and 2006-07. PTSD identified in 2006-07 was modelled as a latent variable with three manifest indicators (re-experiencing, hyper-arousal and avoidance). Categorical variables were determined by frequency tables for respective group participants. Group differences in continuous variables were analysed by t-test or the Wilcoxon signed rank sum test accounting for non-normal distributions. Categorical variables, chi-square tests or Fisher's Exact Tests were performed when assumptions of chi-square tests were violated. Research participants from 1969-70 and 2006-07 did not indicate a significant difference in demographic, categorical or continuous variables. Initial 1969-70 battlefield psychiatric diagnosis TSD did indicate of a causal link to delayed onset PTSD in research participants in 2006-07. The PTSD (2006-07 diagnosis) indicated a descriptive difference, 64 of the 76 Control met the diagnostic criteria, while 19 of the 21 Experimental met the criteria. A significant difference was identified in the 2006-07 presence and severity of depression, two symptoms (intrusion and avoidance) of PTSD and the reported combat exposure. The prevalence of delayed onset PTSD was also highlighted. Obtaining original battlefield psychiatric diagnoses is rare. Comparison with an identifiable Control group after 35 years informs knowledge of how military personnel cope with battlefield exposure. Specifically concluding that; battlefield exposures during 1969-70 for the majority of the research participants have impacted detrimentally on their psychological and physical health, relationships, employment and ongoing overall wellbeing to this day. Delayed onset PTSD is the principal indicator of this current state for these veterans.
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Coxon, Robert Andrew. "Battlefield trauma (exposure, psychiatric diagnosis and outcomes)." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/50423.

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These original data for this research were documented in the clinical diary records of an army psychiatrist on deployment in Vietnam during 1969–70. This study is unique due to the original battlefield diagnosis data used for foundation comparison analysis and longitudinal retrospective case control paired measurement. In battlefield psychiatric assessment diagnostic data recorded in Vietnam during 1969–70 of 119 Australian military servicemen (Experimental group) who presented battlefield trauma exposure reactions were examined. The research case controls (Control group) are 275 Australian Vietnam veterans selected from data at the Australian War Memorial Research Centre. Case control identified participants did not present with medical symptoms in 1969-70 and presented the same demographic profile as the Experimental group population. This research examined whether initial psychiatric illnesses initiated by battlefield trauma exposure in 1969-70 by a cohort of Vietnam veterans would have long term pernicious effects on their physical and psychological health, relationships and employment status. This research compared, PTSD, delayed onset PTSD, severity of combat exposure and depressive symptoms, quality of dyads, general health and quality of life. The analysis of specific demographic variables determined the means, standard deviations, and medians for those continuous variables for both groups from 1969-70 (n=394) and 2006-07 (n=97). The 2006-07 Experimental group (n=21) represents 17.65% and the Control group (n=76) represents 28.15% of the original groups selected and matched from 1969-70 data. These participants completed a battery of psychometric questionnaires and a follow up telephone interview. Demographic variables were evaluated for inclusion as covariates. These demographic variables were correlated with combat exposure and the presentation of PTSD in 1969-70 and 2006-07. PTSD identified in 2006-07 was modelled as a latent variable with three manifest indicators (re-experiencing, hyper-arousal and avoidance). Categorical variables were determined by frequency tables for respective group participants. Group differences in continuous variables were analysed by t-test or the Wilcoxon signed rank sum test accounting for non-normal distributions. Categorical variables, chi-square tests or Fisher's Exact Tests were performed when assumptions of chi-square tests were violated. Research participants from 1969-70 and 2006-07 did not indicate a significant difference in demographic, categorical or continuous variables. Initial 1969-70 battlefield psychiatric diagnosis TSD did indicate of a causal link to delayed onset PTSD in research participants in 2006-07. The PTSD (2006-07 diagnosis) indicated a descriptive difference, 64 of the 76 Control met the diagnostic criteria, while 19 of the 21 Experimental met the criteria. A significant difference was identified in the 2006-07 presence and severity of depression, two symptoms (intrusion and avoidance) of PTSD and the reported combat exposure. The prevalence of delayed onset PTSD was also highlighted. Obtaining original battlefield psychiatric diagnoses is rare. Comparison with an identifiable Control group after 35 years informs knowledge of how military personnel cope with battlefield exposure. Specifically concluding that; battlefield exposures during 1969-70 for the majority of the research participants have impacted detrimentally on their psychological and physical health, relationships, employment and ongoing overall wellbeing to this day. Delayed onset PTSD is the principal indicator of this current state for these veterans.
Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Adelaide, School of Population Health and Clinical Practice, 2008
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Hollow, Rosemary. "How nations mourn:the memorialisation and management of contemporary atrocity sites." Phd thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/105353.

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Terrorism and atrocities have scarred the public memory in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Three atrocities, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the 1996 massacre at Port Arthur Historic Site in Tasmania, Australia, and the 2002 Bali bombings, had a significant impact on the communities they most affected. How did the differing governments and communities at these sites respond to the sudden loss of life? How were the competing agendas of these groups managed ? Are there shared and distinctive characteristics in the memorialisation of atrocitites across these countries at the turn of the millenium? In responding to these questions, this study analyses cultural differences in memorialisation at contemporary atrocity sites. It examines the differing responses at the case study sites to the planning and the timing of memorials, the engagement of those affected, the memorial designs and the management of the memorials, including tributes. It is an original comparative study of contemporary memorialisation by a heritage professional directly involved in the management of memorials at contemporary atrocity sites. The original research includes the identification of the role the internet in contemporary memorialisation, an in-depth analysis of the memorialisation of the 1996 massacre at Port Arthur Historic Site, and the memorialisation in Bali and across Australia of the 2002 Bali bombings. It extends the current scholarship on the memorialisation of the Oklahoma City bombing through identifying the impact of the internet in the memorialisation and in the timeframe of the analysis through to the 15th anniversary in 2010. The comparative analysis of the management of tributes at all the sites identified issues not previously considered in Australian scholarship: that tributes and the response to them is part of the memorialisation and management of contemporary atrocity sites. A combined research method based on an interpretive social science approach was adopted. A range of methodogies were used, including literature reviews, analysis of electronic material, site visits, unstructured in-depth interviews, and participant-observation at memorial services. Studies on history, memory and memorialisation provided the framework for my analysis and led to an original proposal, that all three sites have shared histories of the memorialisation of war and ‘missing’ memorialisation. These shared histories, I argue, strengthened the justification for this comparative study. This comparative study identified differences across the case study countries in the designs of the built memorials, in legislation enacted after the atrocities, the responses to the perpetrators, the marking of anniversaries, and in the management of tributes left at the sites. These differences highlight the cultural divide that exists in contemporary memorialisation. Issues identified for future research include the impact of the internet and electronic social networking sites on memorialisation, and how these sites will be captured and stored for future heritage professionals and researchers. Scope also exists for further comparative global studies: on legislative responses to contemporary atrocities, and on the differing responses of communities and governments to tributes, including teddy bears and T-shirts, left at memorials and contemporary atrocity sites.
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