Those Who Have Borne the Battle (51 page)

15
Secretary Robert Gates, lecture at Duke University, September 29, 2010,
http://www.defense.gov/speeches/speech.aspx?speechid=1508
. For a discussion of regional shifts in military presence, see James Burk, “The Military's Presence in American Society, 1950–2000,” Chapter 6 in
Soldiers and Civilians: The Civil-Military Gap and American National Security
, edited by Peter D. Feaver and Richard H. Kohn. The table on p. 259 shows defense expenditures by region and illustrates the growing role of the South in this regard. I have not been able to get a full list of Galenians who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, but I have learned of ten names who have one or more tours in these wars. One young man from a nearby community was killed in Iraq in 2007.

16
These figures were calculated from the entire, male and female, group aged fifteen to twenty-four. Obviously, the youngest service members are seventeen—but if there were a draft, it is likely that it would not impact anyone older than twenty-one. So these percentages are probably a pretty good order-of-magnitude surrogate. Presumably, a draft would include equally women as well as men, but for illustration, right now fewer than 5 percent of the males in this fifteen-to-twenty-four age group are in the military.

17
Andrew J. Bacevich,
Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War
, 28. See Sabrina Tavernise, “As Fewer Americans Serve, Growing Gap Is Found Between Civilians and Military,”
New York Times
, November 24, 2011. See also Pew Research Center, Pew Social and Demographic Trends, reports “Military-Civilian Gap” and Kim Parker, “The Military-Civilian Gap: Fewer Family Connections.”

18
John Harwood, “For New Congress, Data Shows Why Polarization Abounds,”
New York Times
, March 6, 2011.

19
Paul Yingling, “A Failure in Generalship.”

20
Dana Priest and Anne Hull, “Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration at Army's Top Medical Facility,”
Washington Post
, February 18, 2007.

21
William Deresiewicz, “An Empty Regard,”
New York Times,
August 20, 2011.

22
Greg Jaffe, “On the Home Front, Reminders of the Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq Come in Small Doses,”
Washington Post,
August 20, 2011.

23
Richard Goldstein, “Frank Buckles, Last World War I Doughboy, Is Dead at 110,”
New York Times
, February 28, 2011.

24
Petraeus interview on
National Journal Live
, C-SPAN, March 18, 2011,
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/clip.php?appid=599710563
.

25
Greg Jaffe, “Troops Feel More Pity than Respect,”
Washington Post
, November 14, 2011.

26
Secretary Gates speech to the annual dinner of the Marine Corps Association, Arlington, Virginia, July 19, 2007,
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46780
.

27
Associated Press, “In Rare Moment of Bipartisanship, Obama Signs Bill to Help Companies Hire Jobless Veterans,”
Washington Post
, November 21, 2011; National Public Radio story by Yuki Noguchi on
Morning Edition
, December 1, 2011.

28
Corporate contributions from a report prepared by a student groups at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in the spring of 2010, “Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund: Fundraising Strategy.”

29
Colleen Getz, “Seeing a Fallen Soldier Home,”
Washington Times
, May 31, 2010.

30
Greg Jaffe, “Lt. Gen. John Kelly, Who Lost Son to War, Says U.S. Largely Unaware of Sacrifice,”
Washington Post
, March 2, 2011.

31
Letter from Robert Stanton, published in the
Patriot
(the official magazine of Fisher House Foundation) (Fall 2011): 6–7.

32
Congressmen David Obey, John Murtha, and Barney Frank proposed a surtax in late 2009; Senator Carl Levin also proposed a special tax to help pay for increases in troop levels in Afghanistan. There was no support for their plans.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/23/lawmakers-propose-war-surtax-pay-troop-increase-afghanistan/#ixzz1Tt36uVVE
.

33
Bank, Stark, and Thorndike,
War and Taxes
, 145; Joseph E. Stiglitz,
The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
. See also Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, “The True Cost of the Iraq War: $3 Trillion and Beyond,”
Washington Post
, September 5, 2010.

34
James Wright, “Bearing the Cost of War.”

35
James M. McPherson,
Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg
, 121–122.

36
Robert Bonner,
The Soldier's Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War
, 79, 82. Smith died of illness in a hospital in Washington on October 10, three months after the fight on Cemetery Ridge. The army shipped his body home to his wife and three
young children, warning Mrs. Smith not to open the coffin because of the state of decomposition of the body. Ibid., 77–78.

37
Thomas J. Brown,
The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration: A Brief History with Documents
, 122–127.

38
Quoted in Bailey,
America's Army
, 41.

39
Zullo is featured in Patrick O'Donnell's
Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story—the Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company
.

40
Sebastian Junger, “Farewell to Korengal,” op-ed,
New York Times
, April 21, 2010. Tim Hetherington, British American combat photographer, was the coproducer with Junger of the award-winning documentary
Restrepo
. He was killed on April 20, 2011, while covering the war in Libya.

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