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http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0000061-002
In this chapter, we use data from four longitudinal studies to examine veterans’ appraisals of military service and collective memories of war from the vantage point of later life. We probe their recollections of World War II and, to a lesser degree, the Korean War. Although much knowledge of aging is based on these cohorts, which were heavily marked by war, little attention has been paid to the long-term outcomes of their military experiences, and even less to subjective aspects of service. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)