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In 1968, Stephen H. Miller lost his life in Vietnam. His service to his country was recognized when his name was inscribed on a memorial in Washington, D.C., that recognizes those who gave their lives for their country in the line of duty. But Miller’s name is not on a wall of the Vietnam Memorial visited by millions every year. It is located on a wall in the lobby of the State Department seldom seen by visitors to the nation’s capital.
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See U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, “Building America’s Public Diplomacy Through a Reformed Structure and Additional Resources,” 2002. See also Kathy R. Fitzpatrick, “U.S. Public Diplomacy: Telling America’s Story,” Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. 70, No. 13 (May 1, 2004), pp. 412–417.
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The Smith—Mundt Act (CITE), e.g., passed in 1948 and still in effect today, prohibits the distribution of public diplomacy materials in the United States and limits access by the U.S. media to information targeted for dissemination outside American borders. See Kathy R. Fitzpatrick, Vital Speeches of the Day, May 1, 2004.
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Fitzpatrick, K., Kosic, T. (2005). The Missing Public in U.S. Public Diplomacy. In: Seib, P. (eds) Media and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403980335_5
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