Using history, memoir, and popular culture as sources, Elizabeth Samet highlights the contrast between the concrete realities of World War II and its subsequent transfiguration in American memory since the 1990s.
<p>The memory of World War II as a noble conflict with unambiguous virtue has warped American foreign policy toward militarism in the decades since, argues West Point professor Elizabeth Samet. </p>
<p>The memory of World War II as a noble conflict with unambiguous virtue has warped American foreign policy toward militarism in the decades since, argues West Point professor Elizabeth Samet. </p>
Vietnam Veterans Memorial has become the most visited memorial in Washington and maintains its iconic grip on the national conscience despite initial reservations among planners about the understated design.