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Frames Of Military Veterans In Letters To The Editor In Us Newspapers, Matthew Kleinsorge Jan 2016

Frames Of Military Veterans In Letters To The Editor In Us Newspapers, Matthew Kleinsorge

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This ethnographic content analysis of veterans in letters to the editor builds on the existing literature in two ways. First it examines the new time frame of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Second it deals with new data—letters to the Editor and Op-Eds. The new timeframe allows me to address the following questions. (1) What types of frames are currently associated with veterans after over eleven years of continuous combat? (2) Does the amount of sympathy in framings of veterans found by this research seem to differ from the amount of sympathy found in the framings of veterans in …