Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall

Name: Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall
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ISBN: 9780520274112

ISBN-10: 0520274113

ISBN-13: 9780520274112

Edition: 2013

Authors: Kristin Ann Hass

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For the city's first two hundred years, the story told at Washington DC's symbolic center, the National Mall, was about triumphant American leaders. Since 1982, when the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated, the narrative has shifted to emphasize the memory of American wars. In the last thirty years, five significant war memorials have been built on, or very nearly on, the Mall. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, The National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During WWII, and the National World War II Memorial have not only transformed the physical space of the Mall but have also dramatically…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Forgetting the Remembered War at the Korean War Veterans Memorial



Legitimating the National Family with the Black Revolutionary War Patriots Memorial



The Nearly Invisible Women in Military Service for America Memorial



Impossible Soldiers and the National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism during World War II



"We Leave You Our Deaths, Give Them Their Meaning": Triumph and Tragedy at the National World War II Memorial


Epilogue


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index