caa a22 4500 39752451X CHVBK 20180308164641.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19950801xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3096852 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.2307/3096852 Who Supports the Troops? Vietnam, the Gulf War, and the Making of Collective Memory [Elektronische Daten] [Thomas D. Beamish, Harvey Molotch, Richard Flacks] During the Gulf War, U.S. media portrayed Vietnam-era protesters as having treated American soldiers shamefully during the Vietnam War. Even Gulf War protesters lent credence to this historical interpretation. By "supporting the troops,” dissenters distanced themselves from their counterparts during the Vietnam era and its "remembered” anti-troop sentiments. But after analysis of Vietnam era media, we find that the media of the time—consistent with most subsequent published accounts—did not report the movement as "anti-troop.” Although policymakers frequently attempted to imply that protesters were anti-troop, we find virtually no instances of protesters themselves being reported as targeting the troops. Our findings show that the memory of protester-troop antagonism is not so much the product of conflict between these two groups, but rather of a selectively remembered and edited past. Just as it hamstrung the anti-war movement during the Gulf War, the current recollection may endure as part of the conditions facing opponents of future military actions. © 1995 Society for the Study of Social Problems, Inc. Five Other Papers nationallicence Beamish Thomas D. University of California Santa Barbara aut Molotch Harvey University of California Santa Barbara aut Flacks Richard University of California Santa Barbara aut Social Problems Oxford University Press 42/3(1995-08-01), 344-360 0037-7791 42:3<344 1995 42 socpro https://doi.org/10.2307/3096852 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3096852 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Beamish Thomas D. University of California Santa Barbara aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Molotch Harvey University of California Santa Barbara aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Flacks Richard University of California Santa Barbara aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Problems Oxford University Press 42/3(1995-08-01), 344-360 0037-7791 42:3<344 1995 42 socpro Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford