Odysseus in America (63 page)

VWAR Internet discussion group, 178, 179, 180, 198-201, 288
n

Wagner, Amy W., 281
n

Wall, the,
see
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Waller, Willard, 21, 33, 113, 121, 135, 154, 222, 269
n,
270
n,
273
n,
281
n,
296
n

Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), 215, 291
n

war:

abolition of, 249-53

origin of, 156

rules of, 225

and size of society, 251

War and Violence in Ancient Greece
(van Wees, ed.), 300
n

war crimes, 154

Warrior Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Vietnam America
(Gibson), 22

“War Story, The” (Hoffman), 86, 105

Wattenberg, M., 287
n

weaponry:

celebration of, on Armed Forces Day posters, 206-7

fighting strength and, 213

low-tech, 223

Web sites, for veterans and families, 261-62

Wehrmacht (World War II German army), replacement system in, 212

Weimar Republic, 222, 277
n,
295
n

Weisaeth, L., 290
n

“what's right,” notion of, 206, 248

Agamemnon's violation of, 240

and trust in leaders, 228

whirlpool, in
Odyssey,
107, 112, 257
see also
Scylla and Charybdis

WHO (World Health Organization), 151

Wilson, Donna, 268
n,
269
n,
278
n,
279
n,
282
n

Wilson, D. S., 300
n

Wilson, Jeremy, 271
n

Wilson, William Julius, 301
n

Wirtz, James J., 234-35, 298
n

withdrawal, social, 40, 160

women, veteran hostility toward, 65, 67, 68, 70, 73, 74, 136

words, veteran suspicion of, 176

work,
see
employment and career opportunities of veterans

workaholism, 39, 57-59

World Health Organization (WHO), 151

World Trade Center, September 11 attack on, 236, 253

World War I, replacement system in, 209

World War I veterans, 21, 44, 155

German, 95

Graves, Robert, 31-32

World War II, 205

leadership culture in, 226, 227

replacement system in, 209, 210, 212-14, 295
n

screening of recruits in, 214

underestimations in, 49

World War II veterans, 31-32, 154

impact of psychiatric hospitals on, 109

stoical silence of, 108-9

and Vietnam veterans, 103

work experiences of, 56

WRAIR (Walter Reed Army Institute of Research), 215, 291
n

xeinia,
44

xenophobia, 250-51

Yom Kippur War, 205, 218, 219

Zeus (most powerful of Homeric gods), 107, 124, 145, 259, 272
n,
278
n

Zuckert, H., 285
n,
299
n

Zwygart, U. F., 296
n

Excerpts from
The Odyssey
by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles, copyright © 1996 by Robert Fagles. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc.

Excerpts from
The Odyssey
by Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, copyright © 1961, 1963, by Robert Fitzgerald. Copyright renewed 1989 by Benedict R. C. Fitzgerald, on behalf of the Fitzgerald children. Reprinted by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

Excerpts from
The Road Back
by Erich Maria Remarque, copyright © 1930, 1931 by Erich Maria Remarque. Copyright renewed 1958 by Erich Maria Remarque. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright conventions.

“Insensibility” by Wilfred Owen, from
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen,
copyright © 1963 by Chatto & Windus, Ltd. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Chapter 19, “Group and Milieu Therapy for Veterans with Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder,” by Jonathan Shay, M.D., and James Munroe, Ed.D., in Philip A. Saigh and J. Douglas Bremner, editors,
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Comprehensive Text,
copyright © 1999 by Allyn & Bacon. Adapted by permission.

Excerpts from J. Shay, “Killing Rage:
Physis
or
Nomos—
or Both?,” copyright Jonathan Shay, all rights reserved. In
War and Violence in Ancient Greece,
edited by Hans van Wees. Duckworth and the Classical Press of Wales, 2000.

Narrative, “I Went to the Wall Once …,” used by permission of Michael Viehman, who reserves all rights.

Excerpts from
The Exorcism of Vietnam
[working title], mixed nonfiction history and interviews and pseudonymous autobiography, in preparation. Copyright © 2002 by Dennis Specter, All rights reserved. Used by permission.

“Lewis Puller Ain't on the Wall” used by permission of W. T. Edmonds, Jr., who reserves all rights.

“Remembrance” used by permission of Joan Duffy Newberry, who reserves all rights.

“ReallyCare” and “A Prayer for Death and Life” used by permission of Judee Strott, who reserves all rights.

“Fortunate Son” and “A Valentine's Card for Those Who Were Not There” used by permission of H. Palmer Hall, who reserves all rights.

Excerpts from “The Lounge: We Can Never Leave” used by permission of Michael W. Rodriguez, who reserves all rights.

“Clearly one of the most original and most important scholarly works to have emerged from the Vietnam War.
Beyond that, it is also an intensely moving work, intensely passionate, reaching back through the centuries to touch and heal.”

—TIM O'BRIEN, author of
The Things They Carried
and
July, July

“A transcendent literary adventure.”

—HERBERT MITGANG,
The New York Times

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