AS AM 1 Chapter 4: Espiritu "Body Counts" Ch. 4 Notes
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4 the good warriors & the good refugee . Skipping over & organized forgetting of the devastation of the vietnam war allows. Americans to push military intervention as key in their self-appointed role as liberators promoters of democracy, liberty, & equality at home & abroad. Popular narratives of vietnamese refugees used to rescue the vietnam war for. Many americans drafted for the war were young. Makes it seem like the americans inhabit the moral domain of innocence while vietnam. & its people are seen to occupy the other side: a place where violence is indigenous. Represented veterans as private individuals identified by their relationship to home. Instead of identifying them as official americans with positions in the us military. Honored the war dead but without reference to his cause. Recast the story of the last man down as one about human tragedy & suffering instead of international politics.
