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American daughter gone to war : on the front lines with an army nurse in Vietnam
Format:
Book
Title:
American daughter gone to war : on the front lines with an army nurse in Vietnam
ISBN:
9780688111885
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : W. Morrow, ©1992.
Physical Description:
352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
Introduction: One December day, 1966 : Saigon, Vietnam -- May-October 196 5: Fort Dix, New Jersey -- November 1965-August 1966 : Camp Zama, Japan -- September-October 1966 : the Third Field Hospital, Saigon -- November 1966 : seeds of distrust -- December 1966 : war zone holidays -- January 1967 : hard roads to travel -- February 1967 : intensive care and recovery room -- March 1967 : scorched suns -- April 1967 : where no birds sing -- May 1967 : my soul for a soldier's life -- June 1967 : emergency room and triage -- July 1967 : the Twenty-Fourth Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh -- August 1967 : the thousand-yard stare -- September 1967 : the home stretch -- September 19-October 19, 1967 : my freedom bird home -- October 20, 1967-March 8, 1968 : Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri -- March 1968-June 1983 : from sea to shining sea -- July 1983-October 1984 : spirits of the past -- Veterans Day weekend, 1984 : Washington, D.C. -- December 1984-April 1985 : back in San Francisco -- May 7 weekend, 1985 : the Canyon of Heroes, Manhattan -- March 1991 : after the homecoming parade.
Summary:
Winnie Smith was an idealistic twenty-one-year-old first lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps in 1965, the year that North Vietnam bombed the U.S. base in Pleiku and our involvement in the war became official. Filled with romantic notions about being a combat nurse, Winnie requested assignment in an intensive care unit in Saigon, where casualties were brought by helicopter just minutes from the battlefield. There she became one of the courageous corps of American women who witnessed the drama and horror of combat firsthand. American Daughter Gone to War is her powerful, poignant story, a narrative of one woman's struggle to survive the bloodbath she confronted on the ward, and the trauma that filled her life afterward.
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