EM 6: Why Do Veterans Organize? (1946)
By Dixon Wecter
(Published January 1946)
Contents
Why Do Human Beings Want to Be Joiners?
- The big initiation
- Seeing the elephant
- The spirit of reunions
- We have drunk from the same canteen
Will Organization Help You Become a Civilian?
- When the big parade is over
- Veterans and jobs
- Where do we go from here?
How Can Veterans’ Organizations Serve the Nation?
- Guardians of the faith
How Can Veterans’ Organizations Serve Themselves?
- Legal redress
- Modern times
- The Legion and the bonus
- Where are the majority?
What Will Today’s Veterans Do about Organizing?
- For officers only?
- Worse errors
- Axes to grind
- Give and take
- What can the veteran give?
- What is the leader’s role
- What type of discussion is most effective?
- Questions for discussion
Primary source documents from 1944–46