'Nurses often suffered a more severe emotional mauling than soldiers who had respites from combat.” Read our latest FromTheVault:
From the June 1984 issue ofThe Stars and Stripes Office, not far from the United States Capitol, was a sweat house of camaraderie on a rainy night in November 1982. Finally, a long decade after Vietnam veterans came home, there was a national reunion. The media, from across the country and around the world, recorded a week of tears and laughter among former comrades in arms; men in fatigues and ponytails mingling with those in three-piece suits.
“About three or four days later, I walked into this long Quonset hut and I saw this stretcher and a white sheet. All I could see under the sheet was this little bump. I walked close enough—to see the red hair. He wouldA little bump under a white sheet. She was plagued by a terrible, impotent rage and helplessness many nurses felt in a war that had so perfected is medevac operations that the bloodiest no longer died on the field of battle.
McGoran interjected: “The doctors were drafted. Didn’t want to be there. We volunteered.” Why? “I was single, there was a war and American boys were in it, and they needed American nurses.” So little is known about the nurses of Vietnam that there are not even accurate statistics on how many were there. Official guesstimates ranged anywhere from 7,500 to 55,000. So, it is not surprising that as vets, they often feel invisible.
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