Veteran Comes Back

Willard Waller

• Publisher: Patavium Publishing
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781805233053
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

Is he the man you knew—or a stranger? Is he bitter? hopeful? disillusioned? What sort of husband, father, son, will he make? Will you let demagogues exploit and subvert him as they have done elsewhere? How can we help him find the road back?
Will he sell apples and pawn his medals, or will we assure him a job? What of the disabled—how can we restore him to usefulness? Will we make the grim mistake of spending too much—too late—and for the wrong people? These and other questions are answered in this book—a realistic discussion of America's gravest social problem.…
The Veteran's Future is in your hands—and Your Future is in his hands!
THIS book is written not only to help the veteran adjust to society, but also to help the veteran's father, mother, wife, sister, sweetheart, to understand his state of mind. For it is only through a sympathetic understanding of what he has really become through war, that it is possible to help him at all. This book deals with such concrete problems as: the veteran's marital relations—dealing with the crippled veteran at home—war brides and G.I. babies—veterans organizations—re-educating veterans—the lures of demagogues to capture the veteran's vote—his struggle to get a satisfactory job—the delicate question of treating psychoneurotic veterans—and many others.…
This book does not presume to give all the answers. The author hopes that it will be a firebell in the night—to wake up America now to the veteran problem before it descends upon us in all its fury.

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Cover Matter
• Acknowledgements
• Prologue and Introduction
• PART I — The Civilian Is Made into a Professional Soldier
• Entr’acte: Society Changes While the Soldier Is at War
• PART II — The Soldier-Turned-Veteran Comes Back to an Alien Homeland
• Entr’acte: Politically, the Veteran Is a Damoclean Sword
• PART III — Our Past Attempts—and Failures—to Help the Veteran
• Entr’acte: The Challenge Of The Veterans Of World War II
• PART IV — Helping the Veteran to Adjust to Peacetime Living
• Epilogue: Rehabilitation—A New Social Art to be Learned