Time USA – October 21, 2019
English | 113 pages | pdf | 92.08 MB
This week’s special reporT on The u.s. military, as a new generation joins its longest war, is the latest in nearly a century of TIME coverage of American armed forces and the allies fighting alongside them. In recent decades, society has increasingly focused on how much the military, its actions and the treatment of veterans square with the
nation’s ideals. In a 1981 cover on “forgotten warriors” from the Vietnam War, TIME reported that the turbulent spirit of the ’60s had compounded an already “abrupt, surreal transition” from the jungle: “Citizens no longer knew what their citizenship meant; men no longer knew what their manhood demanded.
The war cost more than Americans could immediately pay.” During the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, TIME covers in 2011 and 2013 highlighted vets who, after completing their uniformed service, continued to exemplify citizenship by starting nonprofits and addressing every kind of wound.
In this week’s cover story, Elliot Ackerman, a Marine veteran who is both a Silver Star recipient and a National Book Award finalist, argues that an all- volunteer military lets most Americans avoid the cost of war. The U.S. had no “forever war,” Ackerman notes, when it had a draft. At Parris Island, in South Carolina, Ackerman interviewed and awardwinning photographer Gillian Laub made portraits of new Marines born after 9/11 who are training for the wars they have never known life without. “A lot of people waste their time doing nothing,” said Gregory Grammer of Myrtle Beach, S.C., one of three teens featured on separate covers. “I can say for sure that I joined the Marine Corps, and I did something.”
The longest war Ashley Luna Gorbea of Springfield, Mass., said her earliest memory of the 9/11 wars is from middle school. “They had a moment of silence, and I was like, whoa, and I asked my history teacher what’s so special about today. She said that 9/11 was a moment when the whole country came together, and that really struck me. How something so big could make us all unite.” Read all of Time USA pdf magazine past cover stories on the military at time.com/vault
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