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Title: A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam by Keith Walker ISBN: 0-89141-617-X Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: There's a special place in Heaven...
Comment: ... for all of the women who served in Vietnam. Read this book, plus the late Lynda Van Devanter's Home Before Morning and you'll see why.
While Lynda's book is a hauntingly graphic record of the triumphs and tragedies that the ANC nurses and Army surgeons experienced in Nam, A Piece Of My Heart gives the reader a very broad perspective of the contributions of women in many other areas.
The foreword to the book was written by the wonderful Martha Raye, whose unflinching commitment to the men and women who served in Nam led to her being a two-time Purple Heart recipient. That even an entertainer could be wounded twice in the line of duty speaks volumes about the risk level In Country.
Equally, Civilian Flight Attendant Micki Voisard almost met her end when her airliner almost collided with a B-52 that was maintaining radio silence during an airstrike.
Yet even though the Red Cross Donut Dollies, such as Penni Evans and "Sam" Bokina Christie and WACs such as Doris Allen all have compelling stories to relate, it is the experiences of the nurses that really stay with you, long after you have put the book down.
For most of her post-Nam life, former ANC nurse and author Lynda Van Devanter (Home Before Morning - available through Amazon.com) was haunted by the memory of a young soldier who had no face, and who eventually had to be left to die because of the extent of his injuries.
When you read the piece by Anne Simon Auger (91st Evac. - Chu Lai) you realize that injuries of that magnitude were not as uncommon as you might hope and pray. Anne also described a young soldier whose face had been shot away, leaving him blind and in her words, "a vegetable".
While my own view is that people in such terrible physical condition should be given enough morphine to shut down their breathing, or in the absence of that, on the battlefield, a mercy round from an M-16, I fully accept that however you have to deal with such shocking injuries, it will stay with you for the rest of your life.
Let us not forget that while the cowardly Stalinist flag burners were calling the returning troops "baby killers", thousands of true blue American women were risking their own lives to support the largely teenaged US soldiers in a war that increasingly made no sense to the people who were being asked to fight it.
These women were Vets. These women were heroes. These women were angels.
We must constantly seek ways to honour them. Their sacrifice must never be forgotten.
Rating: 5
Summary: READ IT!!!
Comment: I thought this book was very informative and well written. My heart goes out to all women that served during the Vietnam War. I was nice to here stories of every different types of women that served. If you are interest at all about women that served in the Vietnam war this would be a great book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good Times, Bad Times
Comment: These stories are so heart-wrenching I had to take a break while reading simply to keep from falling to pieces. These women are so amazing and strong - they're inspiring. I Loved this book and GREATLY recommend the play with the same title by Shirely Lauro that was based off of these stories. It's so unbelievable and so real it makes you feel for those 6 women more than you'd ever imagine!
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Title: Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam by Lynda Van Devanter ISBN: 1558492984 Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam (Studies in Health, Illness, & Caregiving) by Elizabeth Norman ISBN: 0812213173 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Shrapnel in the Heart: Letters and Remembrance from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Laura Palmer ISBN: 0394759885 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 November, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A World of Hurt: Between Innocence & Arrogance in Vietnam by Mary Reynolds Powell ISBN: 0966531957 Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Don't Mean Nothing : Short Stories of Vietnam by SUSAN KRAMER O'NEILL ISBN: 0345446089 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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