Veterans Appreciation Month 2025: Celebrating Diversity in the Force
Welcome to Truxal Library's exhibit in honor of Veterans Appreciation Month! This year's exhibit highlights diversity in the US Military, a rich topic with many facets to explore. This exhibit includes a library exhibit on the second floor of the library in addition to this virtual collection of books, ebooks, and videos.
Background
For overviews on military culture and the experiences of diverse populations, the following reference articles from the library's Gale eBooks database is a great place to start:
- Atuel, H. R., & Hollander, A. (2019). Racial and ethnic minority service members.. In E. L. Weiss & C. A. Castro (Eds.), American military life in the 21st century: Social, cultural, and economic issues and trends (Vol. 1, pp. 41-53). ABC-CLIO.
- Jackson, G., King, E., & Simmons, C. A. (2019). Women in the military. In E. L. Weiss & C. A. Castro (Eds.), American military life in the 21st century: Social, cultural, and economic issues and trends (Vol. 1, pp. 26-40). ABC-CLIO.
- McNamara, K. A., & Goldbach, J. T. (2019). Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender service members.. In E. L. Weiss & C. A. Castro (Eds.), American military life in the 21st century: Social, cultural, and economic issues and trends (Vol. 1, pp. 54-63). ABC-CLIO.
Books
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8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story, from immigrant to the Medal of Honor
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Call Number: DS371.43 .G76 A3 2017ISBN: 9781501165887Publication Date: 2017-11-07 -
Always faithful : a story of the war in Afghanistan, the fall of Kabul, and the unshakable bond between a Marine and an interpreter
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Call Number: DS371.413 .S38 2022ISBN: 9780063260610Publication Date: 2022-08-09 -
An American dreamer : life in a divided country
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Call Number: U53 .C86 F56 2024ISBN: 9780593597064Publication Date: 2024-02-13 -
Ask & tell : gay and lesbian veterans speak out
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Call Number: UB418 .G38 E77 2007ISBN: 9780807831151Publication Date: 2007-05-14 -
Beyond combat : women and gender in the Vietnam War era
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Call Number: DS559.8 .W6 S78 2011ISBN: 9780521762755Publication Date: 2011-09-26 -
Beyond Rosie : a documentary history of women and World War II
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Call Number: D810 .W7 B49 2015ISBN: 9781557286703Publication Date: 2015-03-31 -
Beyond the call : three women on the front lines in Afghanistan
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Call Number: DS371.413 .R58 2018ISBN: 9780306903076Publication Date: 2018-11-06 -
Black Americans in defense of our nation
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Call Number: UB418.A47 B54 1985 -
The Black officer corps : a history of Black military advancement from integration through Vietnam
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Call Number: UB418 .A47 H36 2013ISBN: 9780415531894Publication Date: 2012-10-17 -
Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History
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Call Number: DS559.5 .B56 1984ISBN: 9780345311979Publication Date: 1985-07-12 -
Born on the Fourth of July
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Call Number: DS559.5 .K68 2016ISBN: 9781617754692Publication Date: 2016-07-04 -
Brothers in Valor : battlefield stories of the 89 African Americans awarded the Medal of Honor
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Call Number: E185.63 .J44 2019ISBN: 9781493031740Publication Date: 2018-10-26 -
The call to serve : the life of an American President, George Herbert Walker Bush
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Call Number: E882 .M42 2024ISBN: 9780593729458Publication Date: 2024-05-28 -
Camouflage isn't only for combat : gender, sexuality and women in the military
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Call Number: UB418 .W65 H47 1998ISBN: 9780814735473Publication Date: 1998-08-01 -
Charlie Mike : a true story of heroes who brought their mission home
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Call Number: UB363 .K66 2015ISBN: 9781451677300Publication Date: 2015-10-20 -
Code girls : the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II
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Call Number: D810 .C88 M86 2017ISBN: 9780316352536Publication Date: 2017-10-10 -
Every day is a gift : a memoir
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Call Number: E840.8 .D83 A3 2021ISBN: 9781538718506Publication Date: 2021-03-30 -
Fighting for America : Black soldiers-- the unsung heroes of World War II
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Call Number: D810 .B53 M65 2006ISBN: 9780345459619Publication Date: 2005-12-27 -
Formation : a woman's memoir of stepping out of line
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Call Number: UB418 .W65 D67 2019ISBN: 9781538731512Publication Date: 2019-06-04 -
For the boys : the war story of a combat nurse in Patton's Third Army
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Call Number: D807 .U6 D38ISBN: 9781636241586Publication Date: 2023-09-30 -
The girls who stepped out of line : untold stories of the women who changed the course of World War II
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Call Number: D810 .W7 E34 2021ISBN: 9781728230924Publication Date: 2021-08-03 -
Guys Like Me: Five Wars, Five Veterans for Peace.
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Call Number: U52 .M48 2019ISBN: 9781978802810Publication Date: 2018-12-17 -
Half American : the epic story of African Americans fighting World War II at home and abroad
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Call Number: D810 .B53 D45 2022ISBN: 9781984880390Publication Date: 2022-10-18 -
Integrating the US Military: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation since World War II
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ISBN: 9781421422480Publication Date: 2017-05-01 -
Invisible generals : rediscovering family legacy, and a quest to honor America's first Black generals
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Call Number: U53 .D38 M45 2023ISBN: 9781668005132Publication Date: 2023-11-07 -
Memwars : a story of survival
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Call Number: DS79.766 .R63 A3 2018ISBN: 9781941516355Publication Date: 2018-10-10 -
Nam : the Vietnam War in the words of the men and women who fought there
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Call Number: DS559.5 .B34 1981 -
Out of step : a memoir
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Call Number: HQ74.73 .M65 A3 2018ISBN: 9780814254820Publication Date: 2018-07-18 -
Sons and soldiers : the untold story of the Jews who escaped the Nazis and returned with the U.S. Army to fight Hitler
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Call Number: D810 .J4 H4235 2017ISBN: 9780062419095Publication Date: 2017-07-25 -
Taps for a Jim Crow army : letters from black soldiers in World War II
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Call Number: D810 .B53 M38 1983ISBN: 9780874360240Publication Date: 1983-01-01 -
Valiant women : the extraordinary American servicewomen who helped win World War II
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Call Number: D810 .W7 A56 2023ISBN: 9780063088337Publication Date: 2023-08-01 -
Voices of war : stories of service from the home front and the front lines
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Call Number: U52 .V55 2004ISBN: 9780792278382Publication Date: 2004-11-01 -
What the Taliban told me
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Call Number: DS371.413 .F75 2023ISBN: 9781668010693Publication Date: 2023-11-07 -
When the nation was in need : Blacks in the Women's Army Corps during World War II
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Call Number: D810 .B53 P88 2001ISBN: 9780810840171Publication Date: 1992-01-01 -
With honor and integrity : transgender troops in their own words
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Call Number: UB418 .T72 W58 2021ISBN: 9781479801039Publication Date: 2021-11-09 -
Women at war : Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflicts
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Call Number: U52 .W578 2011ISBN: 9781591149729Publication Date: 2011-08-30 -
Women in the Army policy review
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Call Number: UB418.W65 W65 1982 -
You are worth it : building a life worth fighting for
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Call Number: DS371.43 .C37 A3 2019ISBN: 9780062898548Publication Date: 2019-10-15 -
You don't belong here : how three women rewrote the story of war
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Call Number: DS559.46 .B53 2021ISBN: 9781541768208Publication Date: 2021-02-23
eBooks
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American Military Life in the 21st Century: Social, Cultural, and Economic Issues and Trends [2 Volumes]
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ISBN: 9781440855191Publication Date: 2018-11-16. ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2019] -
Ask and Tell: Ask and Tell : Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780807831151Publication Date: 2007-05-14
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Beyond combat : women and gender in the Vietnam War era
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Call Number: DS559.8 .W6 S78 2011ISBN: 9781139141666Publication Date: 2011-09-26
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Beyond Rosie : a documentary history of women and World War II
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781610755573Publication Date: 2015-03-31
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Black Faces of War: A Legacy of Honor From the American Revolution to Today
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780760339176Publication Date: 2011-01-22 -
The Black officer corps : a history of Black military advancement from integration through Vietnam
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781136176241Publication Date: 2012-10-17 -
Coming Out under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781469604596Publication Date: 2010-09-07 -
Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military, 1945–1980
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781469664422Publication Date: 2021-09-30 -
Hispanic Medal of Honor Recipients: American Heroes
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781648430329Publication Date: 2022-04-13 -
It's My Country Too: Women's Military Stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan
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Call Number: UB418 .W65 B448 2017ISBN: 9781612349367Publication Date: 2017-07-01 -
It's Our Military Too: Women and the U.S Military
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781439901472Publication Date: 2009-03-25 -
The Last Deployment: How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780299282141Publication Date: 2011-06-08 -
Lured by the American Dream: Filipino Servants in the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, 1952-1970
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780252086670Publication Date: 2022-10-25 -
Making the Immigrant Soldier: How Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender Intersect in the US Military
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780252054303Publication Date: 2023-04-18 -
Managing Sex in the U. S. Military
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781496230867Publication Date: 2022-05-01 -
Muslim Americans in the Military: Centuries of Service
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780253027214Publication Date: 2016-10-17 -
Officially Gay: The Political Construction Of Sexuality
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781439903995Publication Date: 2010-06-04 -
One Woman's Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WAC
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780890966945Publication Date: 1995-10-01 -
The Power of Diversity in the Armed Forces
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780228011101Publication Date: 2022-08-15 -
Race and Gender at War: Writing American Military History
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780817395292Publication Date: 2024-10-01 -
The Racial Integration of the American Armed Forces: Cold War Necessity, Presidential Leadership, and Southern Resistance
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780700635290Publication Date: 2023-02-15 -
Service above Self: Women Veterans in American Politics
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780700633234Publication Date: 2022-07-10 -
Service in a Time of Suspicion: Experiences of Muslims Serving in the U.S. Military Post-9/11
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781609385361Publication Date: 2017-01-01 -
Tactical Inclusion: Difference and Vulnerability in U.S. Military Advertising
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780252056581Publication Date: 2024-04-09 -
Taking Flight: The Nadine Ramsey Story
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780700629817Publication Date: 2020-09-03 -
Taps for a Jim Crow Army: Letters from Black Soldiers in World War II
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780813108223Publication Date: 1993-08-10 -
Tell: Love, Defiance, and the Military Trial at the Tipping Point for Gay Rights
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781512601114Publication Date: 2017-10-03 -
True to My God and Country: How Jewish Americans Fought in World War II
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780253068286Publication Date: 2024-02-06 -
The U. S. Military and Civil Rights since World War II
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781440842054Publication Date: 2019-09-26 -
Voices from the Vietnam War Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780813139654Publication Date: 2020-07-07 -
War! What Is It Good For? Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military From World War II to Iraq
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780807835029Publication Date: 2012-01-15 -
War Flower: My Life after Iraq
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781640121836Publication Date: 2019-03-01 -
Warring over Valor: How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780813597577Publication Date: 2018-10-15 -
Women and Gender Perspectives in the Military
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781626166257Publication Date: 2019-02-01
Videos
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After Action (2023)"Hosted by Air Force combat veteran Stacy Pearsall, "After Action" reveals the experiences of 21 diverse veterans from across the country. Conversations about life before, during and after action provide a deeper appreciation for those who’ve served." PBS Series.
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Honor Bound (1996)During the Second World War, while America was fighting the Japanese, a unit of second generation Japanese-Americans was fighting bravely on the European front. These sons of Japanese immigrants proved their courage and loyalty on the fiercest battlefields, as they fought to overcome the stigma of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. 1 hour 19 minutes.
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Ultimate Sacrifices: Capt. Jennifer Moreno (2022)"After a stellar high school career as a leader in the JROTC program at San Diego High School and finishing nursing school at the University of San Francisco, Jennifer Moreno joined the Army. She pursued her dream, becoming an elite member of an all-female Cultural Support Team and served in Afghanistan with U.S. Rangers. She was killed in action while running to the aid of a fallen Ranger. Her story is told by her battle buddy, mentor, and sister that have to live with her sacrifice."
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An Untold Triumph (2007)During World War II, 7,000 Filipino Americans volunteered their services to the U.S. Army and helped liberate their homeland from Japanese occupation. Director Noel M. Izon captures their stories through the voices of the veterans themselves – only half of whom are still alive today – and delivers touching personal accounts of the men’s contributions and sacrifices during the war. 57 minutes.
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Women in the Military (2022)"This series tells the story of the heroic accomplishments of women in the U.S. military. Subjects include a Civil War spy, the first woman to earn the rank of Admiral, life as a Sailor onboard a deployed ship, the effort to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell” which discriminated against gays and lesbians in the military, and the Congressional effort to address sexual assault in the military." El Dorado film series.
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You Don't Know Jack: A Montford Point Marine (2023)"In this compelling short film, we follow the life of a Montford Point Marine as he reflects on his experiences and the challenges he faced as an African American in the Marine Corps. Set against the backdrop of racial segregation and the horrors of war, the film delves into the Marine's journey from the initial days of training to witnessing the devastating aftermath of the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
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