Please list any recommended reading.
Posted: 11 OCT 03: "Texas Women in World War II" by Cindy Weigand
Posted: 24 JUN 03:
Posted: 24 APR 03:
New published book titled: "Registered Nurse to Rear Admiral...A First for Navy Women". You may check it out on the publisher's website www.eakinpress.com or at Bookstogo.net
Posted: 17 DEC 02: WOMEN OF VALOR series - historical fiction
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Posted: 13 Feb 01:
LETTERS HOME – A NOVEL
Author: Katherine Chance
General Fiction ISBN: 0-595-14800-X
Trade Paperback 260 Pages
Publication Date: January 2001 Size: 6" X 9"
Price: $13.95
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This book is being reviewed for MilitaryWoman.org by 1SG(ret) Pauline F. Keehn. 1SG (ret) Keehn spent over 20 years in the U.S. Army. She attended basic training at Ft. McClellan, Alabama, which serves as the setting for this book. Since retirement, 1SG (ret) Keehn has returned to her first love – writing. She has written articles about women in the military for other websites such as Suite 101, Women in the Military Section. She has also written and published some of her poetry and currently has some short stories submitted to publishers for review. She is also in the final stages of finishing her own novella, The Man Across the Road. The 1SG (ret) hones her literary skills through her membership in several writing critique groups. In addition to writing, 1SG (ret) Keehn is also one of the Assistant Webmasters for MilitaryWoman.org in which she participates regularly in panel discussions, contributes to articles as an interviewee, and assists myriad students and researchers on a variety of research papers about women in the military.
Letters Home by Katherine Chance, although a work of fiction, is a must read for any person, whether male or female, who is considering joining the Armed Forces of the United States. This is the story of Jen Casey from Oregon, through letters to her mother, who has just arrived at Ft. McClellan, Alabama, thinking she is embarking on the adventure of a lifetime. What follows that hopeful beginning is an aspect of basic training that many who have served have difficulty in explaining to young (or older) people. This is what makes this book so unique from other books about service members memoirs. Katherine Chance addresses vividly not the physical side of training, but the mind games that are played on recruits throughout training.
Everyone who has ever watched a movie about the military know that physical training is tough, but few show the mental anguish that is in residence every day of your training. At each turn of the page you see people struggling with trying to understand the whys and wherefores of the tasks that they are being asked to perform. You can almost see, as the old Army standard "Dogface Soldier" says, how they tear her down to build her all over again.
Katherine pulls no punches in painting a very colorful picture of the make up of a typical platoon. Young women and men from that range from highly educated to having barely passed entrance exams, from well off families to having no alternative but to join, different races, city kids to small town kids. These are the people that make up the military forces and it is up to their Drill Sergeants to make them stop thinking as individuals and start working as a team. No easy job under the best of circumstances.
The descriptions of the Drill Sergeants point out that personalities can and do play a part in their treatment of recruits and how quickly they do establish likes and dislikes of personnel within the platoon. How easy it is to be targeted and how unlikely it is to ever come out from under being used as an example. How naivety of perceived indiscretions can make life a living hell in basic. Most interesting is how clearly she shows that in some cases not speaking up and reporting departures from regulations is due not to not knowing what is the right thing to do, but because of fear. A trap many young recruits fall for, therefore allowing unscrupulous drills to continue administering upon the young soldier unacceptable military behavior.
Although many of the incidents that happen in the book may not be typical to one platoon, it is very typical to a training cycle. An area that Ms. Chance addresses keenly is the tug of war that goes on between repetition and boredom versus periods of extreme stress and tiredness. Very typical of the Army – hurry up and wait. You will also find yourself chuckling over the almost innocent mindset of these young troopers when they think they are putting one over on their Drills, knowing in your mind full well that they are only deluding themselves.
Traveling through the book with PVT Casey we watch her change, but not necessarily to the attitude that the Army would care to see. As many who have gone before her, there are many questions that she still has that won’t be answered until she has been fully integrated into the mainstream of the Army. Even then, some never understand. That is what makes the military one of the toughest jobs you will ever have. She questions everything from traditions to why the rolling of the socks a certain way, just like every other recruit who has come down the pike. Although neither PVT Casey or you may get the answers now, this book shows the beginning of what basic is all about – learning to follow orders and discipline to bring a ragtag crew of diverse people together to function as one. Understanding of what happened to you during basic really doesn’t happen until you start applying what you have been taught.
I would like to see a follow up of this beginning with PVT Casey to see how she does evolve as a soldier.
To get further information on this book, go to www.lettershome.tv.
Posted: 11 Nov 00:
I want to tell women who write about their terrible treatment, PTSD, and other serious consequences of the culture we live in that they are not alone, the past is filled with largely silent women who have undergone gross injustices and mistreatment, but that there is, at least, some information out there about it. See my book, "Warriors Without Weapons: The Victimization of Military Women", by Donna Dean, and "Hornet's Nest" by Missy Cummings for example.
Posted: 23 Oct 00: "Our Home On the Hill"
Posted: 3 Aug 00: "Hornet's Nest"
Excerpt
from missycummings.com/book.htm: Book
Description:
"Not since Tailhook has the Navy seen a scandal of such sweeping proportions. Hornet’s Nest is the compelling and often shocking account of one of the Navy’s first female fighter pilots, Missy Cummings. The story follows Missy as she graduates from the U.S. Naval Academy and enters the Navy’s extremely demanding and dangerous jet pilot training. Missy’s recounting of her first tour in the Philippines seems surreal as she describes the sexually charged and predatory atmosphere condoned on U.S. foreign military installations."
"Missy is then selected to transition into the fighter combat squadrons in 1993 when the combat exclusion law is repealed. The Navy, and especially the fighter community, is not ready to accept women in the roles of warriors and fighter pilots. Her tour in fighters is marred by blatant discrimination and criminal acts of sabotage by both her peers and superiors. Because of her extremely hostile work environment, she eventually elects to resign from the Navy. Missy then concludes this real life drama with a critical analysis of the integration of women into combat pilot roles, and the future of women in combat aviation."
Posted: 15 Jun 00: "This Woman's Army: The Dynamics of Sex and Violence in the Military"
My book, "This Woman's Army: The Dynamics of Sex and Violence in the Military" is based on my experience as the first woman chaplain in a number of ground combat units. In this narrative, I portray the struggles men and women have under the present destructive personnel policies. As a chaplain, I witnessed much unnecessary suffering by women soldiers. I hope you will read this book, and decide to advocate for structural reforms of our present personnel assignment policies. You can obtain the book directly from Hellgate Press at 1(800) 228-2275, or you can go to the Hellgate Press website, or to Amazon.com to order your copy.
Marie E. deYoung
Director
Center for Women in Church and Society
Our Lady of the Lake University
San Antonio, Texas 78207
Posted: 26 Nov 99: "Voluntary Force," written by Ann Thompson
www.thompson-idea.com - Website of the novel . The following is from the website's information about the novel.
"Voluntary Force" is a novel about a young woman in uniform who has many admirers but few sympathizers.
At a time when the military gave women no respect, Ashton Sparks copes with her transformation to Army officer
and the demands of a military in the throes of transition. She joins the invasion of women into the military and soon
finds herself trapped in a system which won’t let her get out. She can’t defy the system and soon finds herself
transformed into something she isn’t. Ashton makes a lot of mistakes. Her only way out of this mistake is through
it. The problems that beset her are so deep that the best she can do is simply to deny them. Her stoic silence and
stamina suit her well for the rigors of military service. Her psychological transformation, saying no, proves
relentlessly elusive. Ashton is her own worst enemy. A compulsive flirt who sizzles with excessive energy, Ashton
struggles with bouts of boredom and loneliness and becomes the fun and adventure for her man of the moment. A
flower spider changing its color to match the flower, Ashton internalizes the best qualities of her men and always
walks away with more than she thinks she has given. Her affair with a classmate becomes her misadventure, her
Venus’ fly trap.
Voluntary Force probes the military mentality about sexual harassment, a continuing problem in a hierarchical
rank system which recognizes only power-generated relationships -- authority and coercion -- and must have zero
tolerance for sex-generated ones. Between the men and women in that system, however, this dichotomy in human
relationships is often ignored and sometimes abused, using methods ranging from persuasion to physical assault
and producing, despite resistance, a cooperative interaction between the two since disclosure is detrimental to both,
such that their combined action exerts a voluntary force -- a necessarily confusing notion of power -- and the title of
this novel. Voluntary Force is a novel about an effect that cannot be reasonably anticipated or controlled.
Voluntary Force is a novel written for the silent women in uniform, the thousands of ordinary service women who
struggled for acceptance in the military. This novel gives women in the military, yesterday's and today's, a fictional
heroine who not only comes to terms with the idea of military duty and endures the pain and confusion of coping
with the reality of military duty, but who also shares their sense pride and honor, their sense of harassment by the
military and scorn by society, their inadequacy and shame as lovers and wives, and their estrangement from their
children.
Posted 14 Jul 99:
HER WAR STORY Twentieth-Century Women Write about War, Edited by Sayre P. Sheldon
Sayre P. Sheldon chose the twentieth century for this collection of women's war writing because women's roles in war have changed dramatically in this century. The twentieth century has redefined the meaning of combat and expanded the territory of war to include women in larger numbers than ever before.
Sheldon's selections cover World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War, as well as the periods between wars. Women writers anthologized here include Anna Akhmatova, Vera Brittain, Gwendolyn Brooks, Willa Cather, Colette, Martha Gellhorn, H.D., Etty Hillesum, Käthe Kollwitz, Doris Lessing, Amy Lowell, Katherine Mansfield, Mary McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Dorothy Parker, Mary Lee Settle, Gertrude Stein, Huong Tram, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, and Mitsuye Yamada.
Sayre P. Sheldon teaches at Boston University. The founding president of Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND), she continues to serve as a national board member to the organization under its current name, Women's Action for New Directions.
383 pp.
cloth / ISBN 0-8093-2245-5 / $55.00
paper / ISBN 0-8093-2246-3 / $24.95
Available through Southern Illinois University Press and bookstores everywhere.
THE WORLD WARS THROUGH THE FEMALE GAZE, Jean Gallagher
For several women writers and photographers during the two world wars-Edith Wharton, Mildred Aldrich, Martha Gellhorn, Lee Miller, H.D., and Gertrude Stein-the construction of the female subject as an observer of combat became a vital concern. Their explorations of vision took place against the backdrop of a larger shift in western culture's understanding of what "seeing" meant in common practice and philosophical discourse alike. The role of visuality in their lives was massively transformed not only by the rigid gender roles of war, but by the introduction of new combat practices and technologies such as aerial surveillance, trench warfare, and civilian bombardment as well.
In The World Wars through the Female Gaze, Jean Gallagher maps one portion of the historicized, gendered territory of what Nancy K. Miller calls the "gaze in representation." Expanding the notion of the gaze in critical discourse, Gallagher situates a number of visual acts within specific historic contexts to reconstruct the wartime female subject. She looks at both the female observer's physical act of seeing-and the refusal to see-for example, a battlefield, a wounded soldier, a torture victim, a national flag, a fashion model, a bombed city, or a wartime hallucination.
The book begins with two instances of wartime propaganda written by American women in France in 1915. Both Edith Wharton's Fighting France and Mildred Aldrich's A Hilltop on the Marne offer a complex and often contradictory sense of a woman writer's struggles with authority, resistance, and killing. In the process, Gallagher teases out the role of specular vision and the impossibility of "directly" seeing the war. Gallagher then turns to literary and visual texts produced by two female journalists between 1940 and 1945. Martha Gellhorn's 1940 novel A Stricken Field exhibits a range of gendered seeing positions within and in opposition to the visual ideologies of fascism during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. Lee Miller's war correspondence and photography for Vogue show how Miller constructed herself and her predominantly female American audience as antifascist observers of war by working with and against some of the conventions of surrealist fashion photography. Gallagher concludes by focusing on the experimental autobiographical prose of H.D. and Gertrude Stein to explore the functions of vision on two World War II "homefronts"-London during the Blitz and Vichy France. Interdisciplinary in focus, this book brings together visual (twenty-two illustrations) and literary texts, "high" and "popular" expressive forms, and well-known and lesser-known figures and texts.
Jean Gallagher is assistant professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of Polytechnic University in New York City.
208 pp. / 22 b&w illus. / cloth / ISBN 0-8093-2208-0 / $34.95
Available through Southern Illinois University Press and bookstores everywhere.
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Southern Illinois University Press
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Posted 8 Jul 99: "Women at War: Gender Issues of Americans in Combat" by Rosemarie Skaine
I recently published a book with McFarland Publishers, N.C. (1999), "Women at War: Gender Issues of Americans in Combat." The publisher describes the book this way: "As long as there have been wars, there have been women soldiers. Women have fought openly and also in disguise. Their achievements have variously been hailed, ignored, and deliberately concealed. In the United States, their tenacious commitment to service has too often been insufficiently rewarded from their own government.
"As the nature of combat changes, law and policy must change to place women in official combat roles. Such factors as physical ability, emotional readiness for combat, family relationships, and unit cohesion must be considered in a new light.
"The author examines these factors and more in this revealing history and analysis of the female warrior role from ancient Greece to the post-Persian Gulf Era."
Visit either amazon.com or Barnes&Noble web site for more information.
Rosemarie Skaine
Author's Castle
P.O. Box 1044
Cedar Falls, IA
Voice: 319-266-8163
FAX: 319-266-1406
Cellular: 319-290-0467
http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/4459/index.html
Posted 23 Jun 99: "We Band of Angels," by Elizabeth Norman
I recently published a book about one group of remarkable nurses who served their country in World War II--We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese (NY: Random House).
As a young girl, I remember touching my mother's navy blue Coast Guard uniform and wondering what it was like to be a woman in the military during World War II. I combined this curiosity with a professional interest in battlefield nursing--I am a registered nurse--and began an eight year journey interviewing twenty women who are part of the largest group of female POWs in the history of our country. To complete their story, I visited archives and spoke with their husbands, children, relatives, other POWs, and veterans from the battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines in 1942. Although more than fifty years has passed since their wartime ordeals, the women's memories and emotions are strong and vivid. I wrote We Band of Angels using the nurses' own voices to tell their experiences in the jungles, underground tunnels, POW camps, and return to freedom. With no military preparation, these women stayed at their jobs and performed their responsibilities as well as any soldier in battle. They were--and are today--loyal, disciplined, and proud of their accomplishments. I hope you enjoy this story about one group of women made remarkable by history and ennobled by suffering and love.
The book has received many wonderful reviews and is a recommended history book on the USA Today summer reading list. It is available at independent book stores, Barnes and Noble, Borders, and on the internet through amazon.com and other internet book stores.
Please visit my website http://www.webandofangels.com for my information.
Thank you, Elizabeth Norman
Posted 24 May 99:
Noonie Fortin is working on a new book about women who served our country. It will be stories about women from all branches of service regardless of their rank or when they served. All too often books are only written about the women who achieved well-known status during war time and quite often they are officers. Noonie feels it is time for the other women who served to speak up and share their stories. She is already amazed with the completed questionnaires she has received and the things some of the women have experienced during their time in the military. Noonie has already begun the process of searching for a company to publish this work. It is not too late--if you would like the opportunity to be included in her next book please contact her at 1000 S Woodlawn St, Apt 807, Wichita, KS 67218-3645, by phone at (316) 682-6662, or by email at NFortin@aol.com.
This is a special notice for all Veterans and their loved ones as well as civilians. Please read the entire note.
Potpourri Of War
Labors of Love Remembered
Do you know how many American women died during our wars? Do you
know what POW/MIA issues are really about? Do you know what
Rolling Thunder is? Do you know what a Gold Star Mother is? Do
you really know what happened at Kent State? Questions asked by
high school and college audiences, Veterans groups, community
organizations, and writers groups are also included. The answers
to these and many other questions can be found in Noonie Fortin's
new book, Potpourri Of War. These are just a few of the subjects
discussed in this amazing book.
The tragedy of war is not gender specific! Neither is this book, although much of its focus is on the roles of women. Here is a potpourri of personal experiences and reminiscences--some stunning, others fond, several profound. It is about unsung and uncommon heroes. A heartfelt tribute to those who have served, it tells of labors of love in war's worst places.
In her important new book, Noonie Fortin tells of women who have served in or with our military forces in every war, conflict, or police action in this century. Most were military personnel, USO members, Red Cross workers, Hollywood stars, and relatives of Veterans. A spell-binding chapter is written by photo-journalist Susan Christiansen, well known in the Veterans' community.
"Perhaps this resource book should be required reading for all of our young people...You just want to savor the contents," writes Dr. Gil Woodside, Jr. in his Foreword.
Fortin, author of the widely-respected book Memories of Maggie, has another winner!
Potpourri Of War can be ordered directly from LangMarc Publishing, PO Box 33817, San Antonio, TX 78265-3817 or from the author. Please read on for Noonie's personal message to everyone.
Hi everybody:
I am a female Veteran, author, and speaker. I would like to invite you to visit my home page and learn more about me, what I do, and the books I've written. It's located at: "http://members.aol.com/NFORTIN/index.html" N FORTIN's Home Page
I am also a contributing writer to the Military Network web site. Check out my column called "The Sarge" located at: "http://www.military-network.com/">Military Network - Army,Navy,Marines,Air Forc...
I would like to give you a brief summary of both of my books and perhaps you would be interested in ordering them.
Potpourri Of War: Labors of Love Remembered was released in May. This book is about many topics including:
USO--Red Cross--Special Services
Women and men who served our country
American military women and men who died in Vietnam
American civilian women who died in Vietnam
Gold Star Mothers
Kent State killings
Advocates for the POW/MIA issues
History and geography
My mission to inform others of all these issues
The official kickoff for my new book took place the afternoon I spoke at a Vietnam Veterans Memorial groundbreaking in Seekonk, Massachusetts. I sold more copies of Potpourri Of War in one hour than two of the New York Times best sellers did in the lower Massachusetts/Providence, Rhode Island for the entire week prior to the groundbreaking. The same thing happened the following week when I appeared at the Special Forces Association Convention in Albuquerque.
Memories of Maggie: Martha Raye: A Legend Spanning Three Wars was released in February 1996. It is about her life and devotion to the Armed Forces. It has received rave reviews. General Westmoreland said it not only recorded her life but American History as well. Im very proud of it.
Requests for Potpourri Of War may be submitted to LangMarc Publishing, PO Box 33817, San Antonio, TX 78265-3817. Make your check or money order out to LangMarc Publishing. This book is $15.95 each, tax for Texas residents only, and a mailing charge of $1.74 each. You may also contact LangMarc at 1-800-864-1648 or by email at: Langmarc@flash.net. Memories of Maggie is also available from LangMarc. Again they charge $15.95 (plus tax for Texas residents) and postage.
ATTENTION: I charge $15.00 for either book with no tax or postage (unless book has to go overseas in which case there is an extra $3.00 fee). I autograph all books purchased direct from me. Checks for autographed books should be made out to me and mailed to 1000 S Woodlawn St, Apt 807, Wichita, KS 67218-3645.
I am also offering a Special Package Deal. If you would like both books, (that's one Memories of Maggie and one Potpourri Of War, a special discount is offered:
$25 for the set plus $3 postage
Have I got your attention yet? In addition to writing, I am also a speaker. I am available to address any group for a small fee which can be discussed privately. My TENTATIVE travel schedule can also be found on my web site, as well as the topics which I cover, the groups I've already addressed, and some of their comments following my presentations.
I can be reached by email at: NFortin@aol.com or by phone 9 am to 9 pm Central Time at 1-316-682-6662.
Noonie Fortin
Author and Speaker
I was in the first class with women (Class of '80) at USNA and have written of our experiences in a book entitled "First Class-Women Join the Ranks at the Naval Academy". It is being published by the Naval Institute Press and will be available mid March 1998 from the following sources:
1) Naval Institute Press at 1-800-233-8764
2) BarnesandNoble@aol.com
3) www.Amazon.com
4) order from your local bookstore after 15 March
It is 364 pages long and lists for $29.95
Following are the catalog copy and some reviews. Enjoy!
Sharon Hanley Disher (Dish5@aol.com)
Catalog Copy for "First Class": Although the gender barriers at VMI and the Citadel are only now being broken, more than twenty years ago, eighty-one young women entered the U.S. Naval Academy ending a 131-year all-male tradition. Finally, one of those trailblazing women has decided to speak out about their experiences. Based on contemporaneous journals, memorabilia, and interviews, she draws a dramatic and sometimes disturbing picture of their four-year effort to join the Navy's elite fraternity as a commissioned naval officer. From the punishing crucible of plebe summer 1976 to graduation, Sharon Disher focuses on two female members of the Class of 1980 with very different academy experiences. Teenagers faced with issues yet unlabeled in the 1970s - sexual harassment, eating disorders, date rape- they take separate routes in their search for ways to survive the mental and physical challenges of the regimen and the psychological isolation of being a woman in a man's world. The seamless narrative reads like fiction and is unflinchingly frank in its descriptions of prejudice and abuse that mostly went unreported and unpunished. Yet it is obvious that Disher has remained a loyal Navy supporter, and she offers a balanced account of life behind the academy's storied walls for that first group of women who cleared the way for future generations of female midshipmen. Intimate, humorous, even shocking, Disher is always entertaining as she gives the reader an unparalleled eyewitness perspective of her classmates' dizzying emotional gauntlet of confused gender roles, hazing, academic overload, illicit love affairs, and dashed dreams. Yet this is also a story of personal triumph over adversity, of young women and men facing heightened social and professional challenges in a closed, ritualistic society designed to prepare them for military life.
Jacket Biography: Sharon Disher served in the Navy Civil Engineer Corps after graduation in 1980, including a tour as officer in charge of a construction battalion (Seabee) unit-the second woman in the Navy ever to hold such a position. She resigned her commission ten years later and currently resides with her family in Yorktown, Virginia. This is her first book.
NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS
Toll-free telephone: (800) 233-8764
Fax: (410) 224-2406
Web address: www.usni.org
Reviews:
"First Class not only provides a graphic description of the experiences of the first women midshipmen at the Naval Academy, it is also a most entertaining and absorbing work that makes a valuable contribution to increased understanding of the challenges of integrating women into the military services."
-Vice Adm. William P. Lawrence, USN (Ret.)
USNA superintendent, 1978-1981
"Written by a woman actually in the first class of female midshipmen entering the Naval Academy in 1976, First Class chronicles a historical time with personal insight, reflection, and humor. Its greatest value is in helping us understand what everyday life can be like for a military woman in a sometimes hostile world."
-Capt. Rosemary Bryant Mariner, USN (Ret.) one of the first women designated as a naval aviator in 1974 and the first military woman to pilot tactical jet aircraft and command an aviation squadron:
"Reads like a good novel. . . . Those who still believe we are not all the same should read First Class. Those who believe we are all the same should read it, too."
-David Poyer, USNA Class of 1971 author of The Return of Philo T. McGiffin, The Circle, and Tomahawk:
"Lively, well researched, and amazingly good-humored. . . . Parts of this story are painful reading, but its prevailing theme is the irrepressible spirit of midshipmen-men and women both-determined to earn their commissions, go to sea, and serve their country."
-Jean Ebbert coauthor of Crossed Currents: Navy Women from World War I to Tailhook and USNA information officer, 1977-90
Linda Byrd Franke's "Ground Zero" is a wonderful book, full of useful information, and quite up-to-date on recent issues.
NOTE: Journalist Linda Bird Franke will be online August 1 at 1PM ET to chat about her book "Ground Zero: The Gender Wars In The Military," at http://www.barnesandnoble.com/live. "Ground Zero" is the first book to take an in-depth look into the controversial issue of sexual harassment and misconduct in the military. Franke examines how women in combat positions challenge traditional sex roles, societal values, and the "warrior" male culture. She also states that due to the general male mentality of the armed forces, the exclusion and harassment of women can never end.
American Women and World War II, by Doris Weatherford. Published by Facts On File, Inc., 1990, ISBN: 0-8160-2038-8: A scholarly, detailed examination. The book is divided into three parts: servicewomen, women in war work. and the homefront.
Philip Bigler's "Hostile fire - The Life and Death of First Lieutenant Sharon Lane" honest and heartbreaking account of the hostile fire death of a US Army nurse in Vietnam.
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