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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Bailey, Beth <blbailey@ku.edu>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 10, 2019 10:46 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Haider-Markel, Donald Patrick <dhmarkel@ku.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> US war in VN symposium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Raleway">Hi Don,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Raleway">I thought you and some of your faculty and graduate students might be interested in this. The ASA (M&RA) is the keynote speaker, and much of the discussion is about institutional (military) policy and practice.
Would you be willing to distribute this announcement and attachments through the Political Science mailing list? I’d appreciate it!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Raleway">Beth (Bailey)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Raleway">Saturday, April 27</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Raleway">Adams Alumni Center, University of Kansas</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:Raleway">Registration is now open through the link below.</span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Raleway">In the months and years following the 1968 Tet Offensive, the US media documented a growing “crisis of morale” among American service personnel in Vietnam; there were frequent stories of malaise and desertion,
drug use, racial conflict, combat refusal and challenges to legitimate authority, along with reports of scandals and atrocities. Internal military documents tell much the same story.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Raleway">What <i>did</i> happen then? <i>Why </i>did morale appear to plummet? How did US military leaders understand the extent and significance of the problems they confronted, and equally significantly, how did
they try to manage the crisis?</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Raleway">This full-day symposium brings together scholars of the US war in Vietnam (including scholars who are veterans of that war) for conversations about how the US military defined problems of manpower and morale
and wrestled with solutions that ranged from the mundane and predictable to the unexpectedly creative.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Raleway">Dr. E. Casey Wardynski, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, will offer the keynote address: “Army Personnel Policy since Vietnam: Lessons Learned for Today’s All-Volunteer
Force.” </span></b><span style="font-family:Raleway">The luncheon talk will be given by Ms. Chris Noel, a former actress who entertained troops in Vietnam and then served as a veterans’ advocate in the decades that followed.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Raleway">For attendance, registration is recommended though not required. To reserve a meal at lunch, please register here:</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://ipsr.ku.edu/military/tet/index.shtml"><span style="font-family:Raleway;color:#954F72">https://ipsr.ku.edu/military/tet/index.shtml</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Raleway">Manpower & Morale after Tet is co-sponsored by KU’s Center for Military, War, and Society Studies and the US Army Center of Military History.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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