About 7,000 U.S. women served overseas as nurses during the Vietnam War. These veterans are working to ensure their ...
Veterans and observers participated in the event, which included the Pledge of Allegiance, a history of Veterans Day, the ...
Kristin Hannah's new best-selling historical novel, "The Women," is shining an overdue spotlight on Vietnam War nurses. Two ...
Diana Poole never planned to go to Vietnam. As a young woman in 1966, she barely knew anything about the United States’ war in the country, as she did not read the newspaper, nor did she own a ...
Sally Merten’s experience during the Vietnam War was worlds apart from the antiwar movement. As a registered nurse in the U.S. Air Force, she cared for wounded soldiers in California and military ...
The "Sacred Twenty" were the trailblazing first women to serve in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps, setting a profound precedent in ...
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, there were over 12,000 women acting as nurses within the military. Most of them ...
Most of the nation’s veterans are indeed men, in part because of barriers to women in the military that took far too long to fall. Without diminishing the contributions of male veterans, let us this ...
Abortion access has long been difficult for women in the military, but the end of Roe v. Wade has made it even tougher. Some ...
But how many readers were aware of the story of the 63 African American nurses stationed at the 168th Station Military Hospital in Appleton – the first African American nurses from the US Nursing ...
It’s been almost 50 years since the Vietnam War ended. But for the field nurses like Mary Stolze who served there, the ...
The total is already double 2018, when only four women with military experience were among the 535 voting ... How veterans ...