03621nam 2200757Ia 450 991081651940332120240501170422.01-4696-0539-20-8078-9531-8(CKB)1000000000817090(EBL)475164(OCoLC)489150940(SSID)ssj0000344133(PQKBManifestationID)11243062(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344133(PQKBWorkID)10308539(PQKB)10640557(MiAaPQ)EBC475164(MiAaPQ)EBC4322130(OCoLC)966841506(MdBmJHUP)muse48362(Au-PeEL)EBL475164(CaPaEBR)ebr10343532(EXLCZ)99100000000081709020090123d2009 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUntil the last man comes home POWs, MIAs, and the unending Vietnam War /Michael J. Allen1st ed.Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20091 online resource (448 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-7272-5 0-8078-3261-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: The politics of loss -- Go public : the construction of loss -- For us the war still goes on : the limits of homecoming -- As it has in the past : a short history of oblivion -- Fullest possible accounting : the persistence of the past -- The wilderness years : life after death -- Highest national priority : resurrection and retribution -- Not to close the door, but to open it : the ambiguity of recovery -- Conclusion: This thing has consumed American politics for years.Fewer Americans were captured or missing during the Vietnam War than in any previous major military conflict in U.S. history. Yet despite their small numbers, American POWs inspired an outpouring of concern that slowly eroded support for the war. Michael J. Allen reveals how wartime loss transformed U.S. politics well before, and long after, the war's official end.Throughout the war's last years and in the decades since, Allen argues, the effort to recover lost warriors was as much a means to establish responsibility for their loss as it was a search for answers about their fate. ThougVietnam War, 1961-1975Prisoners and prisons, North VietnamesePrisoners of warUnited StatesPolitical activistsUnited StatesVietnam War, 1961-1975Missing in actionUnited StatesVietnam War, 1961-1975InfluenceVietnam War, 1961-1975Political aspectsUnited StatesRelationsVietnamVietnamRelationsUnited StatesUnited StatesPolitics and government1945-1989United StatesPolitics and government1989-Vietnam War, 1961-1975Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese.Prisoners of warPolitical activistsVietnam War, 1961-1975Missing in actionVietnam War, 1961-1975Influence.Vietnam War, 1961-1975Political aspects.959.704/37959.70437Allen Michael J(Michael Joe),1974-1670261MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816519403321Until the last man comes home4032012UNINA