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Brave like me
\"When someone is serving our country, far from home, everyone in their family has to be brave. Including -- and sometimes especially -- the kids. This book speaks to all kids in this situation in telling the story of a boy and a girl with parents away on duty. It captures the children's worries, fears, trials, and triumphs while waiting for their parents to return from service. Although the narrative tells one universal tale, the photographs depict multiple perspectives so that every reader has someone they can relate to. In the end, each child finds the strength and patience to endure the wait, showing admirable bravery and inspiring us all. An afterword looks further at the meaning of bravery and offers resources for helping kids deal with transition, deployment, and separation.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Figuring Violence
In the United States, the early years of the war on terror were marked by the primacy of affects like fear and insecurity. These aligned neatly with the state's drive toward intensive securitization and an aggressive foreign policy. But for the broader citizenry, such affects were tolerable at best and unbearable at worst; they were not sustainable. Figuring Violence catalogs the affects that define the latter stages of this war and the imaginative work that underpins them. These affects—apprehension, affection, admiration, gratitude, pity, and righteous anger—are far more subtle and durable than their predecessors, rendering them deeply compatible with the ambitions of a state embroiling itself in a perpetual and unwinnable war. Surveying the cultural landscape of this sprawling conflict, Figuring Violence reveals the varied mechanisms by which these affects have been militarized. Rebecca Adelman tracks their convergences around six types of beings: civilian children, military children, military spouses, veterans with PTSD and TBI, Guantánamo detainees, and military dogs. All of these groups have become preferred objects of sentiment in wartime public culture, but they also have in common their status as political subjects who are partially or fully unknowable. They become visible to outsiders through a range of mediated and imaginative practices that are ostensibly motivated by concern or compassion. However, these practices actually function to reduce these beings to abstracted figures, silencing their political subjectivities and obscuring their suffering. As a result, they are erased and rendered hypervisible at once. Figuring Violence demonstrates that this dynamic ultimately propagates the very militarism that begets their victimization.
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Military families
\"Examines the challenges that military families face and describes ways that children can keep in contact with their service member parents\"--Amazon.com.
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Scars of War
Scars of War examines the decisions of U.S. policymakers
denying the Amerasians of Vietnam-the biracial sons and daughters
of American fathers and Vietnamese mothers born during the Vietnam
War-American citizenship. Focusing on the implications of the 1982
Amerasian Immigration Act and the 1987 Amerasian Homecoming Act,
Sabrina Thomas investigates why policymakers deemed a population
unfit for American citizenship, despite the fact that they had
American fathers. Thomas argues that the exclusion of citizenship
was a component of bigger issues confronting the Nixon, Ford,
Carter, and Reagan administrations: international relationships in
a Cold War era, America's defeat in the Vietnam War, and a history
in the United States of racially restrictive immigration and
citizenship policies against mixed-race persons and people of Asian
descent. Now more politically relevant than ever, Scars of
War explores ideas of race, nation, and gender in the
aftermath of the Vietnam War. Thomas exposes the contradictory
approach of policymakers unable to reconcile Amerasian biracialism
with the U.S. Code. As they created an inclusionary discourse
deeming Amerasians worthy of American action, guidance, and
humanitarian aid, federal policymakers simultaneously initiated
exclusionary policies that designated these people unfit for
American citizenship.
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Full Fathom Five
One woman’s quest for knowledge of her father lost
at sea Mary Lee Coe Fowler was a posthumous child, born
after her father, a submarine skipper in the Pacific, was lost at
sea in 1943. Her mother quickly remarried into a difficult and
troubled relationship, and Mary Lee’s biological father was
never mentioned. It was not until her mother died and Mary Lee
was a middle-aged adult that she set out to learn not only who
her father was, but what happened to him and his crew, and
why—and also to confront why she had shied away from asking
these questions until it was nearly too late. Fowler searched
through old ships’ logs, letters, and naval
communiqués; visited submarine museums, the Naval Academy,
and other pertinent sites; interviewed old friends and crew
members who knew her dad and mom or served concurrently; and
slowly reconstructed the world in which they lived. Beautifully
written, Fowler’s memoir reveals what she eventually
learned: of the perils and harships of submarine service in
wartime, of the tragic irony of how her father’s sub was
probably lost, and of the long-term damage experienced by the
families of those who do not come home from war.
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My red balloon
A young boy waits with both excitement and apprehension for his father to disembark from the aircraft carrier returning to port after many months at sea.
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How Wartime Military Service Affects Children and Families
How are children's lives altered when a parent goes off to war? What aspects of combat deployment are most likely to put children at risk for psychological and other problems, and what resources for resilience can they tap to overcome such hardships and thrive? To answer these questions, Patricia Lester and Lieutenant Colonel Eric Flake first examine the deployment cycle, a multistage process that begins with a period of anxious preparation after a family receives notice that a parent will be sent into combat. Perhaps surprisingly, for many families, they write, the most stressful part of the deployment cycle is not the long months of separation that follow but the postdeployment period, when service members, having come home from war, must be reintegrated into families whose internal rhythms have changed and where children have taken on new roles. Lester and Flake then walk us through a range of theoretical perspectives that help us understand the interconnected environments in which military children live their lives, from the dynamics of the family system itself to the external contexts of the communities where they live and the military culture that helps form their identity. The authors conclude that policy makers can help military-connected children and their families cope with deployment by, among other things, strengthening community support services and adopting public health education measures that are designed to reduce the stigma of seeking treatment for psychological distress. They warn, however, that much recent research on military children's response to deployment is flawed in various ways, and they call for better-designed, longer-term studies as well as more rigorous evaluation of existing and future support programs.
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9 rules of engagement : a military brat's guide to life and success
The news anchor and co-host of \"Outnumbered\" shares the life lessons she learned growing up in a military family, offering recommendations for how all families can benefit from the guiding principles of military life.
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Resilience among Military Youth
Much research on children in military families has taken a deficit approach—that is, it has portrayed these children as a population susceptible to psychological damage from the hardships of military life, such as frequent moves and separation from their parents during deployment. But M. Ann Easterbrooks, Kenneth Ginsburg, and Richard M. Lerner observe that most military children turn out just fine. They argue that, to better serve military children, we must understand the sources of strength that help them cope with adversity and thrive. In other words, we must understand their resilience. The authors stress that resilience is not a personal trait but a product of the relationships between children and the people and resources around them. In this sense, military life, along with its hardships, offers many sources for resilience—for example, a strong sense of belonging to a supportive community with a shared mission and values. Similarly, children whose parents are deployed may build their self-confidence by taking on new responsibilities in the family, and moving offers opportunities for adventure and personal growth. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan drew more and more service members into combat, the military and civilian groups alike rolled out dozens of programs aimed at boosting military children's resilience. Although the authors applaud this effort, they also note that few of these programs have been based on scientific evidence of what works, and few have been rigorously evaluated for their effectiveness. They call for a program of sustained research to boost our understanding of military children's resilience.
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