Veterans

Veterans

Veterans: Overview


Two major changes have taken place in the relation of the American veteran to civilian society, especially since 1865: the growth of veterans' groups as nationalist lobbies, and the rapid expansion of a military pension system that some scholars see as the template for the twentieth‐ century American welfare state. Even before the
Revolutionary War ended, however, questions of veteran/civilian relations had arisen. In 1776, the Continental...

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