A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam“Records the memories of a war in the words of those women courageous enough to walk into hell.”—San Francisco Chronicle A decade after America pulled out of Vietnam, the seeds of the often heart- wrenching oral history, A Piece of My Heart, were sown when writer and filmmaker Keith Walker met a woman who had been an emergency room nurse in Cu Chi and Da Nang. She and 25 others recount the time they spent "in country" as part of 15,000 American women who volunteered or served as nurses and in the military. NOTE: This edition does not include photographs. “The emotional current never falters.”—The New York Times Book Review |
Contents
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Christine MeGinley Schneider Army Nurse | 35 |
jeanne Sam Bokina Christie American Red Cross | 58 |
Anne Simon Auger Army Nurse | 74 |
Bobbi jo Pettit Entertainer | 88 |
Sara McVicker Army Nurse 09 | 123 |
Sandra Collingwood International Voluntary | 170 |
Dot Weller American Friends Service Committee 85 | 185 |
jane Hodge Army Nurse | 218 |
Micki Voisard Civilian Airline Flight Attendant | 232 |
Allen Army WAC | 245 |
Charlotte Capozoli Miller Army Nurse | 261 |
Penni Evans American Red Cross | 272 |
Nicol Army Nurse | 283 |
Chris Noel Armed Forces Radio | 301 |
Lily Lee Adams Army Nurse | 313 |
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A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of 26 American Women who Served in Vietnam Keith Walker Limited preview - 1997 |
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