Angels in Vietnam: Women Who ServediUniverse, 2002 - 368 pagina's Cry, laugh, and share women’s Vietnam war experiences in their own words in this collection of stories, poems, and pictures of the Women Who Served. Over 11,000 women from America, New Zealand, and Australia went to Vietnam as nurses, American Red Cross workers, physical therapists, entertainers, librarians, and more.Ride along in a helicopter on a Christmas Day mission of the heart with Army pilots and American Red Cross Donut Dollies, in Vietnam, 1969. Meet Gary’s angel, a physical therapist who a wounded soldier found over three decades later to tell her, “thank you.” Take a trip back to the war with a woman when she finds her true love, a soldier fighting in Nam. Experience the war through a nurse’s eyes. Learn where the veterans are today. Read about the Australians and New Zealanders who served in Vietnam. Find out why male Vietnam veterans think the women who nursed, comforted, entertained, or just talked with them were Angels in Vietnam.Forward by David Hackworth, author of About Face and Steel My Soldiers’ Hearts.Jan Hornung is the author of This Is The Truth As Far As I Know, I Could Be Wrong and KISS the Sky: Helicopter Tales. www.geocities.com/vietnamfront |
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Dog Tags a drawing by Melody Hay | 1 |
Penni Evans | 9 |
Colonel Maggie | 17 |
Wives and Mothers and Daughters | 18 |
The Nurses | 31 |
The Morning After | 40 |
Judys Story | 47 |
Welcome | 57 |
Jim a painting by Julie Parker | 159 |
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder | 160 |
A Woman Looks Back At War | 173 |
The Healing Continues | 183 |
My Name is Karen | 196 |
Certificate of Achievement | 202 |
Seeking God | 203 |
Nightingale Mom | 212 |
Nam Nurses | 60 |
Chateau QuangTri | 68 |
Garys Angel | 73 |
From New Zealand | 88 |
Australian and New Zealand Nurses in Nam | 94 |
Donut Dollies | 100 |
VungTau | 116 |
Dauntless | 122 |
Once UponA Time | 124 |
Once Upon ATime | 129 |
To Say Goodbye | 132 |
Christmas in Vietnam | 140 |
Christmas in Vietnam | 156 |
FYI | 217 |
Love Stories and Poems | 225 |
Vietnam Light | 249 |
Jack and Kathy | 255 |
Return to Vietnam | 257 |
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial | 270 |
In Memory | 277 |
Welcome Home | 289 |
God Bless America | 299 |
About the Author | 307 |
Glossary | 317 |
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