Missing Soldiers In The Vietnam War

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The book will be used in the historiography of the nation’s care for its missing soldiers as well as that of the symbolic meaning of searching and identifying dead bodies. It may also be used as a secondary source to discuss the politics surrounding of the search for missing U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War. The book is a cultural study of the soldiers’ bodies, the status changes of the missing soldiers, the dilemma of Vietnam War veterans, the POW/MIA flags, the war memorialization, and the legacy of the Vietnam War on the later Gulf War. The book does not cite many sources except a few online or printed articles and books about politics and American culture. The author argues that the significance of the soldiers body is the result of the
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