masculinity and soldiers after war

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After war, many men longed for a return to domesticity, while some found pleasure in killing. Vietnam helped to shake apart traditional American concepts of masculinity, embodied in the ideal of the citizen soldier. War service left deep personal and familial impacts, such as anxiety, alienation, and distant, disturbed and damaged men, which were transmitted across generations. The deeper historians go into the private dimensions of war, the less distinctive the Australian experience seems to be, as post-traumatic stress is not unique to Australia. 1 2 3

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1 encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net 2 news.harvard.edu 3 theconversation.com


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