Perceptions of death and the Korean War

War in History

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 72-87

  Otsuka, Shuji ^a   Stearns, Peter N ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; DEATH; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; KOREA; LEGAL ASPECT; MILITARY MEDICINE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; SOLDIER; WAR;

DEATH; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; KOREA; KOREAN WAR; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NEWSPAPERS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 61149297169     PISSN: 09683445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096834459900600103     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. On euphemistic treatment that predominated in the Second World War, P. Fussell, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (New York, 1989).
2. on television, B. Cumings, War and Television (New York, 1992).
3. W. Bacchus, 'The Relationship between Combat and Peace Negotiations: Fighting While Talking in Korea', Orbis XVII (1973), pp. 845-74;
4. J. Halliday and B. Cumings, Korea: The Unknown War (New York, 1988), p. 159.
5. For general understanding of this 'frustration', A. Schlessinger, Jr, The Bitter Heritage: Vietnam and American Democracy (Boston, 1967), p. 65.
6. P. N. Stearns, American Cool: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style (New York, 1994), pp. 75-6, 148-64.
7. 'The Presence of Death', New Republic (May 1917), pp. 45-7;
8. 'The Unseemliness of Funerals', Literary Digest (Apr. 1917), p. 1170;
9. M. Weldman, 'America Conquers Death', American Mercury (Feb. 1927), pp. 216-27;
10. R. Dickerson, 'Sorrow Can Be Faced', Saturday Evening Post (July 1944), pp. 269-70;
11. L. Holman, 'The War Department Report', Ladies Home Journal (July 1944), p. 142;
12. S. Falis, 'When Children Confront Death', Parents' Magazine (Apr. 1942), p. 34.
13. J. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific (New York, 1987), p. 94;
14. see also J. L. Collins, War in Peacetime: The History and Lessons of Korea (Boston, 1969);
15. J. Matray, 'America's Reluctant Crusade: Truman's Commitment of Combat Troops in the Korean War', Historian XLII (1980);
16. J. C. Goulden, Korea: The Untold Story of the War (New York, 1982);
17. C. A. MacDonald, Korea: The War Before Vietnam (New York, 1957).
18. Weldman, 'America Conquers'; "The German Idea of Death', Living Age (Aug. 1915), pp. 523-9;
19. S. N. Cleghorn, 'Changing Thoughts of Death', Atlantic Monthly (Dec. 1923), p. 812. '
20. R. Thompson, Cry Korea (London, 1951), pp. 39, 42, 54.
21. Newsweek (27 Feb. 1950), p. 23; (24 July 1950), pp. 11-15;
22. (21 Aug. 1950), pp. 31-2;
23. (18 Sept. 1950), pp. 21-4;
24. (2 Oct. 1950), p. 25.
25. Op. cit. , (9 Oct. 1950), p. 25.
26. Time (3 July 1950), pp. 7-8, 14; (28 Aug. 1950), p. 24; (4 Sept. 1950), p. 27; (9 Oct. 1958), p. 6; (16 Oct. 1950), pp. 26-8;
27. (30 Oct. 1950), p. 36.
28. Newsweek (9 Oct. 1950), p. 24; (23 Oct. 1950), pp. 6-7, 23.
29. Op. cit. (18 Dec. 1950), p. 27; (22 Jan. 1951), p. 27; (5 Feb. 1951), pp. 28, 33; (30 Apr. 1951), p. 30.
30. Op. cit. (18 Dec. 1950), pp. 26-7;
31. (5 Feb. 1951), p. 32; (14 Mar. 1951), p. 24; (24 Nov. 1952), p. 30; (28 Jan. 1952), p. 30.
32. Time (1 Jan. 1951), p. 11; (5 Mar. 1951), p. 30; (9 Apr. 1951), p. 23.
33. (18 June 1951), pp. 25-6;
34. (14 Jan. 1952), p. 17.
35. U. S. News and World Report (15 Sept. 1950), p. 14; (20 Oct. 1950), pp. 14-15;
36. (14 May, 1951), pp. 20, 23; (11 May 1951), p. 21; (26 Oct. 1951), pp. 15, 22; (30 Nov. 1951), p. 102; (8 Feb. 1952), pp. 16, 34; (19 Sept. 1952), p. 39; (10 Oct. 1952), p. 108; (17 Oct. 1950), p. 18.
37. Saturday Evening Post (24 May 1952), pp. 38-9;
38. 'Atlantic Repartee', Atlantic Monthly (Nov. 1950), p. 25;
39. R. Montague, 'A Soldier's Thoughts on Memorial Day', New York Times Magazine (27 May 1951), pp. 13-14.
40. Life (17 July 1950), p. 46; (24 July 1950), pp. 21-2;
41. (31 July 1950), p. 37; (14 Aug. 1950), p. 22; (4 Sept. 1950), p. 36; (18 Sept. 1950), pp. 41-7;
42. (25 Oct. 1950), p. 11; (25 Dec. 1950), pp. 9-14;
43. (21 July 1951), p. 29; (11 Dec. 1951), pp. 32-43;
44. H. Moffit, 'The Situation in a Nutshell', Life (6 Jan. 1951).
45. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (9 and 26 Sept. 1950).
46. Halliday and Gumings, Korea, p. 159;
47. R. Ford, The Long War: American Policy and the Dimensions of the Korean Conflict, 1950-1953 (Ithaca, NY, 1989), pp. 100, 186-8, with useful polling data on public revulsion combined with recurrent interest in the bombing of Chinese bases, even in a nuclear strike, to get it all over with.
48. Op. cit.
49. US Dept of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-1954: The Geneva Conference (Washington, DC, 1961), pp. 44-9, 170, 328, 334-5.
50. A. Axelson, Restrained Response: American Novels of the Cold War and Korea, 1945-1962 (New York, 1990).
51. On the evolution of attitudes toward fear, toward growing dislike of facing fear and growing devaluation of the merits of training in courage, see P. N. Stearns and T. Haggerty, 'The Role of Fear: Transitions in American Emotional Standards for Children, 1850-1950', American Historical Review XCVI (1991), pp. 63-94- esp. pp. 92-3.
52. for application of the transition to military manuals. G. Wouters, 'On Status Competition and Emotion Management: The Study of Emotions as a New Field', Theory, Culture and Society IX (1992), pp. 229-52 discusses a recent iteration of this shift in assessing the strikingly open admissions of fear among American pilots during the Gulf War.