Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction  1
1. Basic Training: Making the Soldier, Militarizing the Civilian  25
2. What They Bring with Them: Effects of Military Training on Student Veterans  43
3. Campus Veteran Support Initiatives  77
4. Veteran Self-Help: Embracing, Re-creating, and Contesting Gendered Military Relations  97
5. Spectral Wars and the Myth of the Antimilitary Campus  127
6. "Thank You for Your Service": Gratitude and Its Discontents  165
Conclusion  189
Notes  201
Bibliography  237
Index  253
 

"Through extensive work with hundreds of veterans and a detailed investigation into veterans in college, Ellen Moore has powerfully illuminated and analyzed the ways the military has strategically positioned itself in US society. She has done something unique and powerful in the scholarship of war and peace—a work that should be broadly disseminated and debated." — Rick Ayers, Huffington Post

"Through extensive work with hundreds of veterans and a detailed investigation into veterans in college, Ellen Moore has powerfully illuminated and analyzed the ways the military has strategically positioned itself in US society. She has done something unique and powerful in the scholarship of war and peace—a work that should be broadly disseminated and debated." —Rick Ayers, Huffington Post

"In this extremely well-written book, Ellen Moore sensitively and movingly portrays the experience of veterans and their challenges in higher education (and beyond) with the help of veterans' own powerful reflections on their experiences. Documenting the role of academic institutions and the U.S. military in the production of a militarized common sense, as well as broader attitudes about war and the military, she illustrates the subtle and generally little-noticed militarization of colleges and universities in an era of perpetual post-9/11 warfare." — David Vine, author of, Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World

"Grateful Nation provides a deeply informed and fine-grained ethnographic account of the educational challenges facing veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ellen Moore's exemplary work will require scholars, administrators, and policymakers to rethink their assumptions about veterans' education and the reasons why so many student veterans struggle in the classroom. With its clear and compelling prose, this book will encourage dialogue in the classroom and improve the campus climate for veterans." — Roberto J. González, author of, Militarizing Culture: Essays on the Warfare State

"Reflexively mythologizing veterans allows Americans to avert their gaze from wars fought in their name. In this subtle and sophisticated book, Ellen Moore challenges readers to take the experience of our veterans seriously. Doing so may provide a first step toward finding an antidote to militarism.” — Andrew J. Bacevich, Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History, Boston University

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