Military Veteran Dialogues on Belonging Doug McGetchin is a Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University where he specializes in the history of connections between Modern Germany and South Asia, doing research and teaching classes about modern Germany, modern Europe, ancient and modern South Asia, world history, and the Second World War. He is the author of Indology, Indomania, Orientalism: Ancient India’s Rebirth in Modern Germany (2009) and a co-editor of Gendered Encounters between Germany and Asia (2017). He received a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar Research Award in 2013-2014 to conduct research in Kolkata (Calcutta) India on his currently book project “The Boycott or the Bullet: Debates over Nonviolence in Indo-Western Anti-Imperialist Struggles,” featuring interconnections between Europe, India, and the United States. He is the Associate Director for the Jupiter campus of FAU’s Peace, Justice, and Human Rights (PJHR) initiative and served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Reagan era. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx