Veterans are cast into two roles in American public discourse: Hero (Hawrot Weigel and Detweiler Miller) and Threat (also called Rambo (Schell & Kleinbart, Valentino); Ticking Time Bomb (Hawrot Weigel and Detweiler Miller, Wood); and Victim (Katopes) among others). Only
half of one percent of Americans serve on active duty, so the gap between military and civilians is wide. In their books, Paula Caplan and David Chrisinger disrupt and nuance rhetorical constructions of veterans through radical reframing of PTSD and trauma.
A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric