Resumen

ICHIKAWA, Hiromi. El papel de las familias en la protección de los soldados. CS [online]. 2009, n.3, pp.93-108. ISSN 2011-0324.  https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i3.427.

The protection of the family and the nation has always been the key discourse used to motivate people to go to war. However, this logic has been questioned and more families have been concerned with a possibility that their relatives may become war victims, in particular, as it is happened in the case with the wars in Vietnam and Iraq. Hence, the previous idea of the soldier as a hero that protects his family has being loosing the ground. There are families, which decided to join the efforts in order to protect the soldiers from the military decisions made by the State. This paper explores the initial positions that families had regarding the traditional heroic discourse and the reasons behind the current criticisms and opposition to the official rhetoric.

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