LINKS

As discussion facilitators, we need to listen. Please follow these links and listen to the experiences of those who served. Then use the links below to consider how ancient Greek drama examines betrayal, consequence, and loss as results of war.

A Conversation with the New Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2014-11-20/a_conversation_with_the_new_chairman_of_the_national_endowment_for_the_humanities

NPR: Remembering Michael Herr, Whose 'Dispatches' Brought the War in Vietnam Home

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/28/483776202/remembering-michael-herr-whose-dispatches-brought-the-war-in-vietnam-home

A Professional Stage Reading of Robert Fagle's Translation of the Iliad

http://www.almeida.co.uk/iliad-digital

Teaching with Primary Sources: The War Comes Home

https://centerx.gseis.ucla.edu/history-geography/professional-development/war-comes-home

NPR-Chicago Teens and Combat Veterans Join Forces to Combat Trauma

http://www.npr.org/2016/01/25/463875598/chicago-teens-and-combat-veterans-join-forces-in-urban-warriors-program

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience

http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/operation_homecoming_writing_the_wartime_experience

NPR's Fresh Air: In Redeployment, Former Marine Explores the Challenges of Coming Home

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/20/394280459/in-redeployment-former-marine-explores-the-challenges-of-coming-home

NPR – Fresh Air interview: Moral Injury as the Signature Wound of Contemporary Veterans

http://www.wnyc.org/story/moral-injury-is-the-signature-wound-of-todays-veterans/

PBS – America Reframed aired a documentary called “Debt of Honor”

http://www.pbs.org/veterans/stories-of-service/stream-tv/a-to-z/debt-of-honor/

NPR – Veterans and Other-than-Honorable-Discharges. Special series. Broadcast Dec. 8-13, 2013.

http://www.npr.org/series/250013036/veterans-and-other-than-honorable-discharges

WNYC Radio interview with veteran, returning-student at Vassar College

https://www.wnyc.org/radio/?utm_source=Vassar+Events+2013&utm_campaign=d918ba84fd-Vassar_Events_2_13_162_13_2012&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b0d0d5c15e-d918ba84fd-123001553#/ondemand/621101

NPR – interview about a production of Philoctetes made up of mostly Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, with a female Philoctetes

http://www.npr.org/2014/05/29/317127131/veterans-philoctetes-puts-modern-spin-on-ancient-greek-play

YouTube: interviews about the Theater of War program on the PBS Newshour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbfR9oz_rEY

Free, downloadable dramatic reading of Sophocles’s Philoctetes

https://librivox.org/philoctetes-by-sophocles/

War blog – Time Now: The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars in Art, Film and Literature

https://acolytesofwar.com

Online Glossary of Military Slang from the Vietnam War, Curated by the Univeristy of Virginia and Charlotte

http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Glossary/Sixties_Term_Gloss_A_C.html#Letter%20%27A%27

Religion & Ethics News Weekly, Interview with Jonthan Shay Speaking on Moral Wounds of War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJWZyZun27g

California Reads Grant - Cal Humanities

http://www.calhum.org/grants/california-reads-grant

Registry of Veterans Memorials-California

https://www.calvet.ca.gov/VetServices/Pages/Memorial-Registry.aspx

The Peculiar Language of Soldiers: What Military Language Says about Armies, and the Societies they Serve

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/05/military-jargon-idf/481092/

Redeployment by Phil Klay

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/05/military-jargon-idf/481092/

LINKS

As discussion facilitators, we need to listen. Please follow these links and listen to the experiences of those who served. Then use the links below to consider how ancient Greek drama examines betrayal, consequence, and loss as results of war.

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