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100			_aHalbfinger, David M.,
245		0	_aMilitary Mirrors a Working-Class America. _cDavid M. Halbfinger and Steven A. Holmes.
260			_bNew York Times, _c2003.
440			_aSIRS Enduring Issues 2004. _nArticle 10, _pEnvironment, _x1522-3205;
500			_aArticles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004.
500			_aOriginally Published: Military Mirrors a Working-Class America, March 30, 2003; pp. A1+.
520			_a"They left small towns and inner cities, looking for a way out and up, or fled the anonymity of the suburbs, hoping to find themselves. They joined the all-volunteer military, gaining a free education or a marketable skill or just the discipline they knew they would need to get through life. As the United States engages in its first major land war in a decade, the soldiers, sailors, pilots and others who are risking, and now giving, their lives in Iraq represent a slice of a broad swath of American society--but by no means all of it. Of the 28 servicemen killed who have been identified so far, 20 were white, 5 black, 3 Hispanic--proportions that nearly mirror those of the military as a whole. But just one was from a well-to-do family, and with the exception of a Naval academy alumnus, just one had graduated from an elite college or university." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article presents the demographic makeup of the United States military.
599			_aRecords created from non-MARC resource.
650			_aDemographic surveys
650			_aDraft
650			_aMilitary service _xVoluntary
650			_aPluralism (Social sciences)
650			_aRecruiting and enlistment
650			_aSocial classes
651			_aUnited States _xArmed Forces _xMinorities
650			_aVietnamese War (1957-1975)
710			_aProQuest Information and Learning Company _tSIRS Enduring Issues 2004, _pEnvironment. _x1522-3205;
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