Burying America's World War Dead

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-36813-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in First World War History

After the World War ended, the families of the American war dead were faced with a difficult choice. Political leaders like former President Theodore Roosevelt were encouraging families to leave the dead with their comrades in European cemeteries to create stronger political ties between the United States and Europe. Grieving families found that their decision on where to bury the dead had become a political choice. How did families advocate for their own views? How were disputes within families resolved? And how did families make their final decisions about where the dead should be buried?

Through an in-depth examination of the correspondence between the United States government and the families of the dead, this book will examine how families fought to ensure that the government gave them what they needed. As the months stretched into years before the war dead were given final burials, the families of the dead demanded that the government give them the respect and honor they felt they deserved as the next of kin of those who had given their lives for the nation. The practices and traditions that the government developed in response to these demands set patterns that still guide the way that the military treats the families of the war dead today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fisher, Tracy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Families Join the Debate over Where to Bury the War Dead

2: Families Correspond with the Graves Registration Service

3: Family Members Fight to be "Next of Kin"

4: Families Seek Control over the Bodies of the Dead

5: Searching for the Missing, Identifying the Unknown

6: Families Decide Where the American War Dead will be Buried

Conclusion

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tracy Fisher is an attorney for the United States government. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota Law School and her Doctorate of Philosophy in History from George Mason University.