Month: September 2016

Veterans have always had a hard time adjusting back to civilian life after war. Government assistance is often required for a veteran to successfully re-enter civilian life. The longer and or more brutal the war the harder for a veteran to rehabilitate generally speaking. World War II was both long and brutal and posed significant … Continue reading “Veteran Rehabilitation”

At the end of World War II countless lives had been uprooted, vast numbers of people were homeless and looking for new places to live. The first thing that comes to mind when I hear displaced persons in context to post WWII is the foundation of Israel. The event that stands out to me is … Continue reading “Displaced Persons”

http://www.mconway.net/page1/page15/files/Shock%20of%20Atomic%20Bomb.pdf http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1109877 The first thing I noticed about the article about the Hiroshima Maidens is the difference in attitude about the acceptance of western culture versus the traditional culture. The way the Japanese people handled the recovery and remembrance of the Hiroshima bombing and the aftermath, including the Hiroshima Maidens, showed how the country was … Continue reading “Wages of Destruction- Parker Manning”

The discussion of veterans benefits and the rights and privileges of veterans from World War Two based upon the country that the veterans fought for can be diverse because of the nature of the conflict and the aftermath in which allies that had fought together against Germany and Japan ended up having a ideological standoff … Continue reading “Veteran’s Post- Parker Manning”

Blogging is certainly not a strong point for me in my academic career, so I need to work on it in order to contribute better to the field because it allows us to communicate our thoughts more freely and casually than formal papers only shared between student and professor. The displaced persons situation in Europe … Continue reading “Displaced Persons Blog Post Parker Manning”

As the Second World War came to a close, the Allies were faced with a very difficult decision. Having already won the won in Europe, the Allies, but primarily the United States, had to decide whether invade the island of … Continue reading →

As the Second World War came to a close, the Allies were faced with a very difficult decision. Having already won the won in Europe,…

When discussing the rehabilitation of individuals two articles come in mind, one discusses a specific group of individuals from Japan while the other discusses the rehabilitation issues on the American home front.  In David Serlin’s “Reconstructing the Hiroshima Maidens” he discusses how several woman who were affected by the atomic bomb had a chance to … Continue reading “Different Rehabilitation Views”

In the articles Reconstructing the Hiroshima Maidens by David Serlin and The Veteran, His Wife, and Their Mothers by Rebecca Jo Plant we see an evaluation of two different types of reconstruction in the post war world.  Serlin writes his article about a group of Japanese women who were severely injured when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima … Continue reading “Postwar Reconstruction of the Body and Mind”

As it became clear that the Allies would soon achieve victory over Nazi Germany, the next major issue was of course how to rebuild a continent that had been ravaged by the most brutal war in human history, but also how to ensure that a war like this could never happen again.  It was largely…