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Paying with Their Bodies (Hardcover)
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Paying with Their Bodies (Hardcover)
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Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a
roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the
accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged
alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The
photograph served many functions, one of them being to revive faith
in an American martial ideal - that war could be fought without
permanent casualties and that innovative technology could easily
repair war's damage. When Bagge was awarded his Purple Heart,
however, military officials asked him to wear pants to the
ceremony, saying that photos of the event should be "soft on the
eyes." Defiant, Bagge wore shorts. America has grappled with the
questions posed by injured veterans since its founding, and with
particular force since the early twentieth century: What are the
nation's obligations to those who fight in its name? And when does
war's legacy of disability outweigh the nation's interests at home
and abroad? In Paying with Their Bodies, John M. Kinder traces the
complicated, interwined histories of war and disability in modern
America. Focusing in particular on the decades surrounding World
War I, he argues that disabled veterans have long been at the
center of two competing visions of American war: one that
highlights the relative safety of US military intervention
overseas; the other indelibly associating American war with injury,
mutilation, and suffering. Kinder brings disabled veterans to the
center of the American war story and shows that when we do so, the
history of American war over the last century begins to look very
different. War can no longer be seen as a discrete experience,
easily left behind; rather, its human legacies are felt for
decades. The first book to examine the history of American warfare
through the lens of its troubled legacy of injury and disability,
Paying with Their Bodies will force us to think a new about war and
its painful costs.
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