It’s been more than 40 years since the Vietnam War ended. But for the combat nurses who served there, the details remain as sharp in their minds as the needles they used to help patients heal. Like ...

Credit: Jim Noelker Credit: Jim Noelker Auclair, who served as an army nurse during the Vietnam War, is currently much in demand by local book groups whose members have read and enjoyed Kristan ...

A group of veterans we don’t often hear from are the nurses who aided wounded soldiers during that time. Recently, Nexstar’s Marielena Balouris spoke to three Vietnam War nurses to discuss ...

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 ...

Of the more than 58,000 Americans who died in the Vietnam War, eight were female Army nurses like her. She received an Army Commendation Medal and a unit citation. Young served in the Army from ...

WASHINGTON — Edie Meeks, a former Army nurse, is one of 10,000 women who served in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. When Diane Carlson Evans, her former tentmate, asked her to join a campaign for ...

Peggy Akers of Portland feels a responsibility to share 'what war does.' Photos of Peggy Akers as a nurse during the Vietnam War, her blonde hair in ponytails, flash across the screen in her ...

The Women.” (St. Martin’s Press) The idea to write about nurses in combat zones in the Vietnam War came easy, novelist Kristin Hannah says. The writing? Not so much. “The Vietnam War was ...