ABSTRACT
This chapter attends to the terms of inclusion and exclusion that shape the boundaries of military fraternity. In particular, it considers the gender and racial exclusions by which membership in the military fraternity is defined. It takes somewhat for granted women's exclusion from combat, but it evaluates more critically the ways in which the military fraternity, as a masculine preserve, is also exclusive in other terms, such that the optimal display of masculinity in warfare becomes the province of some groups of men and not others. Critics of military women contended that women's greatest contribution to the war effort could be made by staying at home. That Private Omiya was compelled to "prove" his Americanism through injuries sustained in combat while African Americans were denied opportunities to represent their loyalty visually to the American public suggests the very different terms in which the wartime politics of race affected Japanese-American and African-American men.
