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Proceedings of the Annual Encampment

Proceedings of the Annual Encampment

Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. California

2386 of Brentwood, Alan Hammond Nichols Post No. 69 of Palo Alto, Wm. Davidson Post No. 2381 of Susanville. It was also an honor to install the officers of the Contra Costa County Council. INSTITUTING OFFICES I. had the honor and  ...
Failing Our Veterans: The G.I. Bill and the Vietnam Generation

Failing Our Veterans: The G.I. Bill and the Vietnam Generation

Mark Boulton

Specifically, the book explores why legislators from both ends of the political spectrum failed to provide Vietnam veterans the same generous compensation offered to veterans of previous wars.
The Peripheral

The Peripheral

William Gibson

Flynne Fisher lives in rural near-future America where jobs are scarce and veterans from the wars are finding it hard to recover.
The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare: Dispatches from the ...

The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare: Dispatches from the ...

Suzanne Gordon

The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare is an essential primer on VHA care and a call to action by veterans, their advocacy organizations, and political allies.
Estates of Incompetent Veterans: Hearings Before the ...

Estates of Incompetent Veterans: Hearings Before the ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs

Considers inheritance regulations on incompetent veterans' estates accrued from benefits payments.
News Notes of California Libraries

News Notes of California Libraries

California State Library

Hand copied by and gift of Mrs Louis Scheeline. (-SPEEB, ROBERT ELLIOTT. One girl's influence. A memorial of Louise Stockton Andrews. Gift of the Western Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind. •f!lft of U. S. Veterans' Bureau. •SwwE, LEE.
Yorkshire Mining Veterans: In Their Own Words

Yorkshire Mining Veterans: In Their Own Words

Brian Elliott

Yorkshire Mining Veterans is an extraordinary collection of stories told by the Veterans of the mines.
The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements

The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements

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ELISABETH JEAN WOOD SINCE 1945 the dominant form of largescale violence has been civil wars. Although the annual count of extant civil wars (far larger than the number of interstate wars) peaked before the turn of the century, civil wars ...
California Baseball: from the Pioneers to the Glory Years

California Baseball: from the Pioneers to the Glory Years

Chris Goode

Creamer, Da Capo Press, 1991 Superstars and Monopoly Wars, Nineteenth Century Major ... York Times, November 15, 1901 The Imperfect Diamond, A History of Baseball's Labor Wars, Lee Lowenfish & Robert W. Creamer, Da Capo Press, ...
Draw Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Draw Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Bonnie Burton

Draw Star Wars: The Clone Wars is filled with tips, techniques, practice space, and translucent overlays to make you a master of drawing.
The Politics of Intelligence and American Wars with Iraq

The Politics of Intelligence and American Wars with Iraq

O. Seliktar

... of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Seliktar, Ofira. The politics of intelligence and American wars with Iraq / Ofira Seliktar. p. cm.—(Middle East in focus) ISBN 0–230–60453–6 (alk. paper) 1. United States—Foreign relations— Iraq. 2.
Unfit For Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against ...

Unfit For Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against ...

John E. O''Neill

" The battle that lies at the heart of this book is the decades-old feud between antiwar veterans and their my-country-right-or-wrong counterparts.
Why Wars Happen

Why Wars Happen

Jeremy Black

Why Wars Happen is a groundbreaking inquiry into the crucial yet surprisingly understudied question of why wars occur.
Shark Wars: Into the Abyss

Shark Wars: Into the Abyss

E J Altbacker

The third adrenaline-pumping title in the new Shark Wars series. Perfect for boys and girls of 8+ and all fans of Beast Quest. This is Star Wars underwater!
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace

Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace

Maxine Hong Kingston

The contributors to this volume are part of this community of writers working together to heal the trauma of war through art.
Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury after War

Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury after War

Rita Nakashima Brock

In Soul Repair, the authors tell the stories of four veterans of wars from Vietnam to our current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan—Camillo “Mac” Bica, Herman Keizer Jr., Pamela Lightsey, and Camilo Mejía—who reveal their ...

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