Volume 54, Number 6 · April 12, 2007
Justice for Warriors
By Taylor Branch
The Bonus Army: An American Epic
by Paul Dickson and Thomas B. Allen
Walker, 370 pp., $13.95 (paper)
Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation
by Suzanne Mettler
Oxford University Press, 252 pp., $30.00
Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream
by Edward Humes
Harcourt, 319 pp., $26.00
What does it mean to be a soldier of freedom? Is patriotism in a republic to be measured with blood or money? Does a military chain of command transmit democratic values? Americans have lionized, scorned, and patronized our own troops—often during the same war. Can soldiers and civilians truly look one another in the eye?
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