Paying with Their Bodies
American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran
- Contents
- Review Quotes

Introduction
Part I. The Industrialization of Injury
Thomas H. Graham
1. “To Bind Up the Nation’s Wounds”: How the Disabled Veteran Became a Problem
Arthur Guy Empey
2. “The Horror for Which We Are Waiting”: Anxieties of Injury in World War I
Part II. The Aftermath of Battle
Elsie Ferguson in “Hero Land”
3. “Thinking Ahead of the Crippled Years”: Carrying On in an Age of Normalcy
Sunday at the Hippodrome
4. “The Cripple Ceases to Be”: The Rehabilitation Movement in Great War America
Part III. Mobilizing Injury
The Sweet Bill
5. “For the Living Dead I Work and Pray”: Veterans’ Groups and the Benefits of Buddyhood
Forget-Me-Not Day
6. “For the Mem’ry of Warriors Wracked with Pain”: Disabled Doughboys and American Memory
James M. Kirwin
7. “What Is Wrong with This Picture?” Disabled Veterans in Interwar Peace Culture
Part IV. Old Battles, New Wars
Harold Russell
8. “The Shining Plate of Prestige”: Disabled Veterans in the American Century
Tammy Duckworth
Epilogue: Toward a New Veteranology
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
History: American History | Military History
Political Science: American Government and Politics
Sociology: Individual, State and Society
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