Officer, Nurse, Woman The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War |
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Author:
| Vuic, Kara Dixon |
Series title: | War/Society/Culture Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8018-9391-9 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2010 |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $57.00 |
Book Description:
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'''I never got a chance to be a girl,' Kate O'Hare Palmer lamented, 34 years after her tour as an army nurse in Vietnam. Although proud of having served, she felt the war robbed her of her innocence and forced her to grow up too quickly. As depicted in a photograph taken late in her tour, long hours in the operating room exhausted her both ......
'''I never got a chance to be a girl,' Kate O'Hare Palmer lamented, 34 years after her tour as an army nurse in Vietnam. Although proud of having served, she felt the war robbed her of her innocence and forced her to grow up too quickly. As depicted in a photograph taken late in her tour, long hours in the operating room exhausted her both ......