“I Have Served to Tell”: A Qualitative Study of Veterans’ Reactions on Participating in a Living Library Project

Mark Giesler; Alexis Juarez

doi:10.21061/jvs.v5i1.148

“I Have Served to Tell”: A Qualitative Study of Veterans’ Reactions on Participating in a Living Library Project

Journal of Veterans Studies

Volume 5 (2019): Issue 1

By: Mark Giesler and Alexis Juarez

Open Access

|Dec 2019

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