Kilshaw wrote that soldiers’ discussions about GWS were “a form of commentary” that used a “shared bodily language” to express “collective social angst” and “distress” within a “world of shared social meaning” that existed on “the fault lines of culture.” The “narratives of suspicion” offered by McVeigh and his COHORT, like those of thousands of other Gulf War veterans, are closely related to, and founded in, the same circumstances that have led many in the African-American community to believe that the government not only created AIDS but also administered it to the citizenry.
