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AV-279572-21Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarUniversity of Colorado, Colorado SpringsTo the Battlefield and Back Again: Conversations on War, Trauma, and Life After Service5/1/2021 - 4/30/2024$98,173.00Max ShulmanJennifer KlingUniversity of Colorado, Colorado SpringsColorado SpringsCO80918-3733USA2021Theater History and CriticismDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs98173098148.920

A preparatory program and three discussion groups for 60 veteran and active-duty service members from Colorado Springs and surrounding areas.

To the Battlefield and Back Again: Conversations on War, Trauma, and Life After Service, seeks to facilitate an extended, community-based exploration of three themes: “Discourses on Going to War,” “The Modern Battlefield: Warfighters and Trauma,” and “Coming Home/Home Front.” Within each theme, we will consider the Trojan War, World War II, and Afghanistan/Iraq, enabling participants to situate and compare diverse military experiences across time and cultures. Leaders and participants in each thematically-based discussion group will come from the Colorado Springs civilian and veteran communities, and from the many active-duty service members and military-associated civilians who are housed in and around the military installations in the Colorado Springs/Pikes Peak region.

AV-279585-21Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarSUNY Research Foundation, University at BuffaloDeveloping a Sense of Meaningful Belonging Among Veterans5/1/2021 - 10/31/2022$100,000.00Vasiliki NeofotistosLisa ButlerSUNY Research Foundation, University at BuffaloAmherstNY14228-2577USA2021Interdisciplinary Studies, GeneralDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs100000099524.90

A six-day training program for six leaders and two monthly discussion programs for 15-20 participants, to be held at the State University of New York at Buffalo and surrounding area.

The University at Buffalo, in collaboration with the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries, and the Veterans One-stop Center of Western New York, proposes a project, titled “Developing a Sense of Meaningful Belonging Among Veterans.” The project will take place from 05/2021 until 10/2022 in Buffalo, NY. The project consists of an in-person six-day preparatory program to train six discussion leaders, and of two in-person series of six monthly discussion programs for veterans. The project also includes an exhibition of veterans’ photographs and a public panel discussion at the downtown Public Library in April 2022. The project aims to facilitate rich discussions and deep reflections on how veterans establish meaningful social connections and support veterans in this quest. The project team comprises humanities scholars, a social scientist, a discussion facilitation expert, and an Army combat veteran and social worker.

AV-279589-21Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarNew York UniversityLife After Prison, Life After War: Veterans in Transition to Civilian Life5/1/2021 - 4/30/2024$99,910.00Alisha AliJoe SalvatoreNew York UniversityNew YorkNY10012-1019USA2021Literature, GeneralDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs99910099102.330

A discussion leader training program and three eight-week discussion groups for 70 incarcerated veterans, co-sponsored with the DE-CRUIT program.

New York University, the DE-CRUIT Veterans Transition Program, and NYU’s Prison Education Program propose a series of discussion groups for veterans who have been previously incarcerated. The groups will examine writings by Shakespeare and other plays, poetry, short prose, and historical texts and will apply that examination to an analysis of events and experiences connected to World War I and the War in Afghanistan. The discussions will illuminate the following themes: (a) the insights that can be gained from exploring war and the veteran experience in supporting the post-prison transition, and (b) the role of camaraderie and community in overcoming trauma and readjusting to civilian life. All of the veterans who will train to be discussion leaders will have previously completed the DE-CRUIT program and have served as DE-CRUIT facilitators. Authors of many of the key humanities sources will co-lead discussions of their writings alongside the veteran discussion leaders.

AV-279594-21Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarUtah State UniversityBringing War Home: Object Stories, Memory, and Modern War5/1/2021 - 4/30/2024$99,890.00SusanR.GrayzelMollySwansonCannonUtah State UniversityLoganUT84322-1400USA2021American StudiesDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs998900998900

The training of student veterans to lead statewide public discussions for veterans and civilians on the experiences and commemoration of war through material culture.

Bringing War Home enables participants to develop a deeper understanding of the material world of modern war and its incorporation into our families and our efforts to memorialize and commemorate these conflicts. We will do so in several ways. First, through community conversations, aimed at bridging the divide between combatant and civilian memories of war, of Tim O’Brien’s classic story of the Vietnam War, The Things They Carried. Second, by co-teaching a web broadcast class on the material culture and history of 20th-century war that trains students especially those who are veterans to collect and document material culture narratives. Third, via public events featuring workshops on material culture preservation and oral history, where veterans and families are encouraged to bring objects from their own collections for documentation and inclusion in our digital archive. Finally, through community discussions based on the object stories collected in the digital archive.

AV-279598-21Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarEmory UniversityTalking about Service: The Concept of Duty from Ancient Rome to WWII and Vietnam.9/1/2021 - 8/31/2023$67,935.00HenryCarlBayerle   Emory UniversityAtlantaGA30322-1018USA2021Classical LiteratureDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs679350679350

A graduate course to prepare Emory students to lead discussions for veterans, followed by their facilitation of four parallel discussion series on the experiences of war read through The Aeneid and selected works on the Vietnam War.

Emory University proposes to organize a program of discussion groups that will meet five times. In Talking about Service, participants will explore aspects of the concept of duty from wars in ancient Rome to World War II and Vietnam through a close reading of Virgil's Aeneid, transcriptions from interviews of veterans collected over the past ten years in Georgia, and other historical documents. They will also discuss readings from the anthology Standing Down: From Warrior to Civilian and Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History by Wallace Terry. A discussion leader preparation program will draw on the expertise of Emory faculty. A distinctive feature of this application is the institutional context, which includes a vibrant Humanities Center and significant relationships with regional Veterans Administration services, the Centers for Disease Control, and an extensive network of health and wellness programming designed specifically for veterans.

AV-279607-21Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarLongwood UniversityCivil War, Civil Rights, and Civic Duty: The African American Experience of War6/1/2021 - 11/30/2023$99,549.61EricB.Hodges   Longwood UniversityFarmvilleVA23909-1800USA2021U.S. HistoryDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs99549.61095886.780

The training of 10 veterans to co-facilitate two series of humanities-based discussions of African American combat veterans’ experiences in the Civil War, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Civil War, Civil Rights, and Civic Duty: The African American Experience of War, a project of Longwood University, will focus on the neglected narrative of the African American experience of war. The project will focus on the involvements of black combat veterans in three historically distinct conflicts: the American Civil War, Vietnam, and the Global War on Terror (GWOT). Themes for the project include civil rights and patriotism, the role of race in war, homecoming, and the experiences of black women in war. Those topics will be explored through multiple humanities sources including historical documents, literary selections, public history, and film. In 2022, ten discussion leaders will participate in an intensive residential preparatory program that is grounded in the humanities and receive training in discussion facilitation. A series of discussions with African American combat veterans (male and female) will be conducted at the historic Moton Museum.

AV-279608-21Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarClemente Course in the Humanities, Inc.Democracy and Duty: Activating Service5/1/2021 - 9/30/2024$98,455.00Aaron Rosen   Clemente Course in the Humanities, Inc.New YorkNY10065-8014USA2021Interdisciplinary Studies, OtherDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs984550933600

A preparatory training program hosted by Oregon Humanities and three discussion sessions for 15-20 participants, to be held in Dorchester, MA; Blacksburg, VA; and one remote session utilizing the SAKAI learning management system.

Our goal for these Dialogues is to explore the call to military service and offer opportunities for reconciling and repurposing that call into service in civilian life. These three Dialogues will engage 15-20 students (mostly veterans plus invited civilians) with primary sources drawn from moral philosophy, US history, literature, and images. Through letters, speeches, essays, poems, fiction, music, painting, photography, film, and architecture, we will explore Homeric epics, the American Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and WWI, to ask questions that challenge our assumptions about service, duty, and equality. In keeping with NEH’s goals for A More Perfect Union, studying these wars through the lens of service, allows us to better understand how US history informs and guides our service to our democracy, both as soldiers and citizens. The Dialogues will be team-taught over a series of 14 weeks and culminate in a service-learning project. (Dialogues faculty Jack Cheng and Jim Dubinsky are

AV-279609-21Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarUSS Constitution Museum, Inc.Sailors Speak: The Impact of War on Naval Veterans, their Families, and the Country5/1/2021 - 4/30/2023$96,264.00Sarah Watkins   USS Constitution Museum, Inc.BostonMA02129-0215USA2021Military HistoryDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs962640962640

The training of facilitators to lead three discussion series for naval veterans and their families, based on historical documents and material culture from the War of 1812 and the post-9/11 wars.

"Sailors Speak" is a humanities-based discussion program for navy veterans, their adult family members, and the general public. Using USS Constitution as a lens, the program examines the War of 1812 and the Global War on Terror through multimedia primary sources. This five-day preparatory program will train ten veteran and non-veteran facilitators to lead three distinct discussion series for naval veterans and their families. Participants will interpret their own experiences as veterans and military family members in a historical context exploring similarities, changes and universal themes. Themes include motivation for joining the navy; impact of separation on families; naval service and the experience of war; returning home and reintegration; and commemoration and memory. Through this project, discussion leaders, humanities scholars, mental health professionals and those with first-hand experience will promote community building, connection, and healing through open dialogue.

AV-279610-21Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarMichigan Humanities CouncilShared Missions, Many Stories5/1/2021 - 12/31/2023$100,000.00CelesteL.Diehm   Michigan Humanities CouncilOkemosMI48864-6012USA2021History, Criticism, and Theory of the ArtsDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs10000001000000

The training and mentoring of student veterans at two universities to lead campus- and state-wide dialogues on female combatants in the Civil War and the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Working with an advisory committee consisting of veterans (emphasis on student and women veterans), faculty from CMVE member colleges and universities, veteran administration counselors, corporate veteran’s association representatives, and community members, Michigan Humanities will develop a program designed to train student reflective conversation facilitators, and hold at least three reflective community conversations both on campus and in the community.

AV-286734-22Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarUniversity of Missouri, Kansas CityBridging the Civil-Military Gap: What Happens When Soldiers Become Civilians Again?8/1/2022 - 11/30/2023$99,997.00Rebecca Best   University of Missouri, Kansas CityKansas CityMO64110-2235USA2022Military HistoryDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs99997099982.50

A program to train and mentor 12 student veterans as discussion leaders for a 120-student undergraduate course on narratives of war and the relationships between civilian societies and their military communities. 

Our program will focus on the ways veterans and others have translated experiences of war into novels, memoirs, songs, and films; the challenges of accurately representing these experiences; and the crucial ways that narrative can connect civilian and military communities. The program’s three components are: (1) the recruitment and initial training of student veterans as supplemental instructors (SIs) in cooperation with UMKC’s At Ease Zone, the Missouri Institute for Defense & Energy (MIDE), and the ICSI, (2) an interdisciplinary course facilitating a holistic examination of military-civilian relationships across time and culture, with emphasis on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Argentina’s Dirty War, and (3) a series of follow-up meetings with the SIs aimed at processing and integrated lessons learned and preparing for the following year’s program.

AV-286742-22Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarBowie State UniversityWar and Memory5/1/2022 - 12/31/2023$82,339.00KarenB.Cook-BellRoger DavidsonBowie State UniversityBowieMD20715-3319USA2022African American HistoryDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs823390816550

An undergraduate seminar to train ROTC cadets and student veterans as discussion leaders, followed by a series of discussions with local veterans focused on personal and public memory in the Civil War and the Vietnam War through letters, literature, and historical writings.  

The Bowie State University (BSU) Department of History and Government, the BSU Department of Military Science, and the Honors College proposes to conduct a three-part program under the auspices of the NEH Dialogues on the Experience of War grant. The program, which will train Senior Army Reserve Officer Training Corp (ROTC) cadets and advanced student veterans to conduct discussion groups with local veterans, will explore how two wars, the Civil War and the Vietnam War, are imagined and remembered through three central themes: service, sacrifice, and reintegration. At the core of memories of war is an array of collective meditations on war and the victims of war. Before it became history, war became memory, since the experience of a great tragedy was felt at an individual, personal level. The narratives of war are thus made after an irrevocable “privatization” of the tragedy. The soldiers and civilians directly affected by the tragedy are faced with the direct, concrete, detai

AV-286749-22Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarSt. John Fisher CollegeMeaning and Dimensions of Service: Duty, Loyalty, and Culture in War5/1/2022 - 4/30/2024$99,684.00Carolyn VaccaFrederickHenryDotoloSt. John Fisher CollegeRochesterNY14618-3537USA2022Military HistoryDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs99684091485.090

The training and mentoring of student veterans to facilitate dialogues on service in WWI and in Afghanistan and Iraq, followed by discussion programs with veterans and military interpreters in the Rochester community. 

St. John Fisher College will offer a discussion series on the Meaning and Dimensions of Service: Duty, Loyalty, and Culture in War. This program builds on two previous Dialogues grants, which have engaged students, student veterans, and veterans, extending their reach to include Afghan interpreters/Special Immigrant Visa holders and delving into discussions about the definition of service, the lines of duty, the claims of loyalty, and their relationship to culture. Using humanities resources on World War I and the ‘small wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan, including literary, historical, television/film, and archival sources, trained discussion leaders will facilitate community dialogues with veterans. The thematic content of the dialogues will be informed by community partners and content experts who will provide a unique cultural awareness. The project will build an inclusive veteran community, one that recognizes interpreters, and provide historical context on these compelling issues.

AV-286755-22Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarBoard of Trustees of the University of IllinoisVisualizing Parallels Between the US ‘Indian Wars’ and the ‘Global War on Terror’8/1/2022 - 7/31/2023$100,000.00Therese QuinnAaron HughesBoard of Trustees of the University of IllinoisChicagoIL60612-4305USA2022Interdisciplinary Studies, OtherDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs10000001000000

An eight-month preparatory program for veteran curator-artists and museum studies graduate students, followed by their collaborative facilitation of public discussion programs on veterans’ artistic responses to war experiences.

The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), in partnership with the emerging Veteran Art Movement (eVAM), proposes an NEH Dialogues on the Experience of War program that incorporates academic study, curatorial practices, and focus group discussions culminating in veteran-led discussion forums at the second National Veteran Art Triennial and Summit at the Chicago Cultural Center and Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, Illinois. Through this partnership, UIC and eVAM will develop a comprehensive program that prepares a cohort of predominantly Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) veteran artists/community leaders who served in the Global War on Terror (GWOT) as humanities discussion leaders.These veteran fellows will study an interdisciplinary cross-section of humanities sources that illuminate the connections and contradictions between the eighteenth and nineteenth-century US “Indian Wars” and twenty-first-century “GWOT” across time and space.

AV-286762-22Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarChinese Historical Society of AmericaWar Heroes: Chinese American Experiences5/1/2022 - 4/30/2025$100,000.00Montgomery Hom   Chinese Historical Society of AmericaSan FranciscoCA94108-1527USA2022Military HistoryDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs10000001000000

The training of 20 veterans from the San Francisco Bay area as discussion leaders, followed by a series of six public discussions on Chinese American veteran experiences in wars from WWII to the present. 

The Chinese Historical Society of America and the WWII Chinese American GI Project will collaborate to host a series of discussions titled, War Heroes: Chinese American Experiences. This series of programs will uplift Chinese American veteran experiences in WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Gulf and Afghanistan Wars while discussing humanities sources such as documentaries, memoirs, and historical writings that documented Asian American experiences. Discussions will cover themes from training, going overseas and their return home. These perspectives are often overlooked in history but this program will uplift and recognize their service and contributions to America. The project team will recruit discussion facilitators and participants from San Jose State University, Burdick Memorial Military History Project; Civilian Liaison to the Army; Chinese American Citizens Alliance; American Legion Cathay Post 384; Veterans of Foreign Wars; National WWII Museum among other organizations.

AV-291049-23Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityUS military and genocide: Perpetration, liberation, witness, and prevention5/1/2023 - 4/30/2024$98,609.00ElisabethHopeMurrayHarry BrodeenEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityDaytona BeachFL32114-3910USA2023Military HistoryDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs986090981800

A 12-month program resulting in the creation of an ROTC course and a public discussion series dealing with case studies of the U.S. military’s involvement with genocide, preceded by a preparatory program for discussion leaders

This program will facilitate a stronger relationship between veteran and ROTC students through the creation of a training and discussion program using the lens of the US military and genocide. We will focus on four themes in this relationship, and each theme will revolve around a linked case study: Perpetration and genocide against the Native Americans with a focus on the Seminole Wars, Liberation with a focus on the Holocaust, Witness with a focus on ISIS genocide against the Yazidis, and Prevention with a focus on Afghanistan. We will use a variety of humanities sources: music, letters, poetry, art, photography, and oral history. Student Veterans will be trained to lead a semester-long class of primarily ROTC students; in the following semester, three public discussions will be led by the trained veterans.

AV-291088-23Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarClemente Course in the Humanities, Inc.Providence Clemente Veterans Initiative: Extending the Reach6/1/2023 - 5/31/2025$99,000.00MarkEdwardSantow   Clemente Course in the Humanities, Inc.New YorkNY10065-8014USA2023Interdisciplinary Studies, GeneralDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs990000987000

A two-year project to hold four 12-week Dialogues on the Experience of War seminars for 10 military veterans and interested civilians per seminar, preceded by a preparatory program for six seminar discussion leaders

The Providence Clemente Veterans Initiative (PCVI) has been funded in part by an NEH Dialogues grant since 2019. Through our trauma-informed approach, we (a) facilitate peer discussion of the personal and universal experiences of war and homecoming throughout time, as embodied by texts and materials in history, philosophy, literature, art history, film, and creative disciplines; (b) support the return to civilian life by historicizing and contextualizing the experience of homecoming within ethical and existential frameworks across cultures; and (c) foster veteran well being and a purpose filled life through developing opportunities for civic engagement, creative expression, and community connection. In the wake of its successful program and in partnership with the Clemente Course in the Humanities, the PCVI seeks to deepen, refine, and extend its existing mission.

AV-291091-23Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarMinnesota Humanities CenterExamining Military Service from the Margins6/1/2023 - 5/31/2025$100,000.00Karen SieberMiki HuntingtonMinnesota Humanities CenterSt. PaulMN55106-2046USA2023Military HistoryDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs1000000982780

A two-year series of preparatory and discussion programs exploring the histories of marginalized military service members for veterans and others in three communities in Minnesota and at sites in Maine and Mississippi 

The Complicated Service discussion series will bring together Veterans and community members to examine the experiences of service members who identified themselves as female, Black, Native American, LGBTQ, or an immigrant, and the dynamics, reasoning, and strength behind serving a country that does not always serve you in return.

AV-298396-24Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarMedical College of WisconsinTalking with Monuments: Veteran Dialogues on Remembering9/1/2024 - 8/31/2026$99,880.00Katinka HooyerLeslie RuffaloMedical College of WisconsinMilwaukeeWI53233-2237USA2024Literature, OtherDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs998800998800

A two-year project to hold discussion programs for veterans, veterans support specialists, and the public that would analyze war memorials using site visits and poetry.

Warrior’s Path III: Talking with Monuments: Veteran Dialogues on Remembering is a program that engages war memorials as powerful stages to recall and reflect on military service. Often, monuments tell one story, at the cost of omitting the sacrifices of many. As a result, the experiences of diverse veterans and their stories become overlooked or forgotten, widening the military-civilian social divide. This can intensify veterans’ reintegration challenges. This program activates remembrance and expands cultural narratives around who serves and the stories that are untold. Through memorial site visits, poetry, and veteran-led conversations, we cultivate discussion around military service, forgetting, and moral injury. Our aim is to acknowledge the stories that have not been told or remembered and gain a deeper understanding of diverse veterans’ lives and service.

AV-298432-24Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarMichigan Humanities CouncilSame Mission. Many Stories.5/1/2024 - 4/30/2026$100,000.00Katie Wittenauer   Michigan Humanities CouncilOkemosMI48864-6012USA2024Interdisciplinary Studies, GeneralDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs1000000941250

A two-year veteran-centered facilitator training and humanities discussion program, with a focus on the stories of veterans and the cultural resources of Michigan’s 10 regions.  

In Phase II of Same Mission. Many Stories., Michigan Humanities will partner directly with the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency (MVAA). MVAA staff from all 10 regions in Michigan, representing all 83 counties, will complete training on how to host reflective community conversations while exploring and gaining a greater understanding of underrepresented populations in the military throughout history. This training will bring all 10 regional representatives together at one central location in 2024. After successfully completing training, MVAA staff will organize 2-3 sustained conversations in their respective districts over the following 12-18 months. The conversations will bring together diverse groups of veterans in each of Michigan’s 10 regions. Conversations will be grounded in humanities themed objects to create a central starting point.

AV-298433-24Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarSinclair Community CollegeImages Past and Present6/1/2024 - 5/31/2025$52,113.74Kay Koeninger   Sinclair Community CollegeDaytonOH45402-1421USA2024Art History and CriticismDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs52113.740512370

A one-year project to train two pairs of veteran center staff and art historians to lead discussions on visual arts and the experiences of war, followed by their facilitation of two discussion series for students and members of the public.  

This project will create and support two discussion groups of student-veterans, veterans, military family members, and others with military ties, one at Sinclair College and one at Wright State University. Both colleges are located in Dayton, Ohio, with large numbers of active and retired military personnel due to the presence of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the Dayton Veterans Administration Hospital, the Museum of the United States Air Force, and many aerospace-focused companies. The discussion groups will discuss the experience of war, covering themes such as propaganda, combat, comradeship, leadership, death, homecoming, and memorialization, using works of visual art - sculpture, painting, prints, and photography - from global traditions and periods of time ranging from the ancient to the present, with a special focus on the American Civil War and the Vietnam War.

AV-298497-24Education Programs: Dialogues on the Experience of WarUniversity of Texas, Permian BasinMending Mental Gaps: Negotiating Combat Trauma via Visual/Textual Humanities9/1/2024 - 8/31/2026$100,000.00RebeccaSusanBabcockMarlon FickUniversity of Texas, Permian BasinOdessaTX79762-8122USA2024Literature, GeneralDialogues on the Experience of WarEducation Programs10000001000000

A two-year project for 60 veterans that utilizes visual arts and multiple text formats to discuss healing after military trauma.

Veterans, active military, and (in separate forums) the West Texas community. will engage in war-themed literature, especially with visual literacy in the way of graphic novels and comics, poems, non-fiction and fiction. Unique to the project is the fact that various branches of the U.S. Military are creating pre-deployment graphic novels and comics (visual works) that replace text manuals. In addition, national veterans' affairs organizations are offering post-deployment animated visuals to mitigate military stress. Themes include honor, camaraderie, displacement, mental gaps during moments of trauma, and the second shock of homecoming. Veterans will spark engagement by reading reflections from their journals of experiences to encourage further groups and dialogue. The words of participants will be recorded for the visually impaired if they so desire. Conflicts will largely focus on the Vietnam War, and those in Iraq and Afghanistan.