Military Brat Cultural Identity and Awareness Movement
Conroy was a major supporter of the research and writing efforts of Journalist Mary Edwards Wertsch in her identification of the hidden subculture of American Military Brats, the children of career military families, who grow up moving constantly, deeply immersed in the military, and often personally affected by war (a subculture in which Conroy himself grew up).
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