Joel P. Rhodes is a professor of history at Southeast Missouri State University. He is the author of several books, including Growing Up in a Land Called Honalee: The Sixties in the Lives of American Children and The Voice of Violence: Performative Violence as Protest in the Vietnam Era.
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For American children raised exclusively in wartime—that is, a Cold War containing monolithic communism turned hot in the jungles of Southeast Asia—and the first to grow up with televised combat, Vietnam was predominately a mediated experience... SEE MORE