Re: VCR/DVR Alert - Vietnam Nurses with Dana Delany
Already planned to watch this one. Loved China Beach.
I worked with a Nam vet nurse, in fact she was a career army nurse and at 45 she entered private sector nursing. She was a competent nurse, detail orientated, good to patients and families. She hated charge, hated doctors, and hated to see death. She would not kill a fly, no joke. She was shook-up after a peds death once so badly, I just let her sit in the break room and cry. The next day she was back in harness. She would be the first to say war was lots of blood and pain but little glory. Also knew a nurse who was on Batan in WWII, in the Death March. She was a good nurse and very efficient. Always worked nights because she could not sleep at night for the nightmares. Her legs were scarred and she walked with a limp. She always wore white, was prim and neat in her dress uniform and polished shoes. I admired her courage, at the time there were several physicians on staff who were vets and they seems to naturally gravitate to one another. She worked her regular shift, went home and died of a massive MI. She never complained of chest pain or SOB that whole night.
You can bet your bottom dollar these ladies have seen more suffering and death than those of us who never served. They deserve the memorial in DC and all the honor we can give them.
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