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“the CTCA held frequent lectures that aimed to dispel the traditional assumption that men had natural, unbridled sexual passions that needed to be met in order to maintain their health and masculinity. The CTCA, historian Allan M. Brandt writes, “sought to invent for the troops a concept of…” quote by Beth Linker — Download Open image

““the CTCA held frequent lectures that aimed to dispel the traditional assumption that men had natural, unbridled sexual passions that needed to be met in order to maintain their health and masculinity. The CTCA, historian Allan M. Brandt writes, “sought to invent for the troops a concept of virginity and chastity equivalent to that demanded of women.”40 In””

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“One might think that as a country almost always involved in a military operation of one kind or another, the United States would be accustomed to and prepared for injured soldiers coming home. Yet this is not the case. Conflicts during the twenty years prior to Iraq (Grenada, the Gulf War, Somalia, and the Balkans) produced relatively few US causalities…

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“Why? Because the ethic of rehabilitation, established almost a century ago, lives on.”

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