Yet after the war, there was far less support and community for nurses and little recognition from the public of what they went through overseas. On Veterans Day, nurses gather at the Vietnam Women's Memorial, which was built in 1993 after years of advocacy, to honor the service of the ...
Studies showed that veterans who served in the South during the war have increased rates of nerve, digestive, skin, and respiratory disorders, and well as higher rates of various cancers, including throat cancer, acute/chronic leukemia, Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, prostate ...
To children of Vietnam Veterans (COVV) such as Alexandra Kerry, their fathers embody not only the traumas of war but also its heroism, teaching them about freedom, peace, and the meaning of sacrifice. Alexandra considers her father a hero not just in the obvious ways that a woman might ...
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It does, it's helped me feel better. I didn't talk about it for years, then I started meeting other veterans who had been over there. You can't talk to somebody who's never seen it. They might appreciate the fact that they're listening to you, someone who actually went through it...
Vietnam: 50 Years Remembered: With Coby Batty. The Vietnam War documentary series chronicles America's involvement through veterans' personal stories, detailing battles, strategies, politics, and the social/political impact of the tragedy that tested the
The original Rambo movie wasn’t necessarily deep, but it did remind us that soldiers like Rambo carried hidden wounds of war; it also highlighted a societal suspicion, whether just or unjust, of military veterans. The sheriff in “First Blood” has no respect for Rambo as a military “hero...
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Although the history of Vietnam has been dominated by war for 30 years of the 20th century, the conflict escalated during the sixties. When we talk about the Vietnam War (which the Vietnamese refer to as the “American War”), we talk about the military intervention by the U.S. that...