A Piece of My Heart : The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam

“Records the memories of a war in the words of those women courageous enough to walk into hell.”— San Francisco Chronicle A decade after America pulled out of Vietnam, the seeds of the often heart- wrenching oral history, A Piece of My Heart , were sown when writer and filmmaker Keith Walker met a woman who had been an emergency room nurse in Cu Chi and Da Nang. She and 25 others recount the time they spent "in country" as part of 15,000 American women who volunteered or served as nurses and in the military. NOTE: This edition does not include photographs. “The emotional current never falters.”— The New York Times Book Review **“Records the memories of a war in the words of those women courageous enough to walk into hell.”—__San Francisco Chronicle__**A decade after America pulled out of Vietnam, the seeds of the often heart- wrenching oral history, , were sown when writer and filmmaker Keith Walker met a woman who had been an emergency room nurse in Cu Chi and Da Nang. She and 25 others recount the time they spent "in country" as part of 15,000 American women who volunteered or served as nurses and in the military.NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.**“The emotional current never falters.”—__The New York Times Book Review__** This is a wonderful book giving incredible personal insights from women who served in Viet Nam. They were nurses, Red Cross workers USO doughnut dollies and entertainers ,volunteers from catholic charities and the Friends international societies and women army corps members (who were truly pathfinders) and peace corps women. This a a must read for women serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and other war like areas of the world. Many struggled with post traumatic stress disorder and the difficulties of returning to an unwelcoming public. These are women who suffered the moral reprehension and turmoil that war brings.