Cambridge University Press eBooks,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 1 - 24
Published: Sept. 30, 2021
The
Introduction
explains
that
veterans
returned
to
Việt
Nam
in
search
of
resolution,
or
peace,
their
personal
relationships
with
the
war.
This
manifested
nostalgia
for
"Vietnam,"
returnees
acting
as
a
diasporic
community
forged
While
many
found
measure
peace
upon
return,
they
were
also
challenged
by
erasure
wartime
presence.
Veterans
drew
on
memories
and
performed
nostalgic
practices
recapture
sense
belonging
Nam.
Outlining
three
distinct
eras
returnees,
this
chapter
shows
how
comparative,
transnational
perspective
reveals
stark
differences
American
Australian
war
memories,
narratives,
imaginings
"Vietnam."
presents
review
existing
scholarship
topic
returning
veterans,
situating
book
broader
literature
its
legacies;
book's
oral
history
methodology
analytic
approach;
outlines
structure
book.
Cambridge University Press eBooks,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 101 - 126
Published: Sept. 30, 2021
Chapter
4
examines
how
veterans
responded
to
the
presence
and
absence
of
war
remnants
in
Việt
Nam.
Returning
often
engaged
battlefield
pilgrimage
as
a
way
reflect
on
past,
encountering
or
visiting
form
battle
locations
military
bases.
However,
for
Vietnamese,
were
not
limited
battlefields
architecture.
This
chapter
takes
broad
view
relics
remnants,
considering
alongside
bases
ecological,
social,
individual
effects
those
who
lived
through
it
born
its
aftermath.
These
more
subtle
obvious
some
returnees,
but
others,
they
invisible.
Exploring
veterans'
reactions
these
forms
illuminates
further
war:
biases
other
lingering
wartime
ideologies
Australians
Americans
returned.
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Published: Sept. 30, 2021
Chapter
2
examines
the
second
era
of
veterans'
return
journeys,
from
1995–2005.
This
was
characterized
by
"normalization":
establishment
diplomatic
relations
between
United
States
and
Việt
Nam
offered
security
to
tentative
veterans
who
had
watched
reconciliation
process
afar.
Lifted
travel
restrictions
a
growing
tourism
industry
provided
returnees
with
more
latitude
in
their
returns,
resulting
diverse
group.
Increasingly,
both
countries
returned
on
"healing
journeys,"
approaching
as
locus
trauma.
A
discourse
trauma
emerged
narratives,
mirroring
rising
popularity
therapy
psychoanalysis
Western
cultures,
majority
normalization
describing
returns
therapeutic.
Many
became
engaged
reconstruction
activities
form
atonement
Nam,
reshaping
early
returnees'
processes
into
personal
healing
projects.
Cambridge University Press eBooks,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 1 - 24
Published: Sept. 30, 2021
The
Introduction
explains
that
veterans
returned
to
Việt
Nam
in
search
of
resolution,
or
peace,
their
personal
relationships
with
the
war.
This
manifested
nostalgia
for
"Vietnam,"
returnees
acting
as
a
diasporic
community
forged
While
many
found
measure
peace
upon
return,
they
were
also
challenged
by
erasure
wartime
presence.
Veterans
drew
on
memories
and
performed
nostalgic
practices
recapture
sense
belonging
Nam.
Outlining
three
distinct
eras
returnees,
this
chapter
shows
how
comparative,
transnational
perspective
reveals
stark
differences
American
Australian
war
memories,
narratives,
imaginings
"Vietnam."
presents
review
existing
scholarship
topic
returning
veterans,
situating
book
broader
literature
its
legacies;
book's
oral
history
methodology
analytic
approach;
outlines
structure
book.
