Lynda van devanter biography of barack
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NamNews, 1-02, Pages 13-15, 5 Dec 1987
By: Lynda M. Van Devanter
When I read about President Carter's call to renew registration of the draft, this is what I see: It is 3 a.m. in Pleiku, South Vietnam. The fighting in the central highlands fryst vatten heavy, and I am called out of my sleep to the operating room. I have been sleeping on the floor under my cot, having been awakened an hour earlier bygd a rocket attack, as on most other nights. Even in my groggy state, the gruff words on the phone, "Casualties! Get down here, on the double!," are enough to send my adrenaline flowing, and I'm alert by the time inom get to the OR. inom change quickly to scrub cloths, and report to the head nurse for my assignment.
"There's a bad one in the neuro," she says, "and I need you to pump blood in there." The neuro room is one that inom don't particularly like to work in, since head wounds are usually so messy, but, even knowing that I am unprepared for the sight that awaits me.
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BY Joan Furey
On Veterans Day weekend 2018, as inom joined hundreds of other women Vietnam veterans in Washington, D.C., to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the dedication of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial, one thought was foremost in my mind: I wish Lynda was here. At the reception that VVA’s Women Veterans Committee hosted on Friday night, I was honored to be asked to read a poem from Visions of War: Dreams of Peace, the anthology of poetry by women who served in Vietnam. Lynda and I co-edited the book, which was published in 1992. I preceded my remarks bygd saying: “I’m here today because of one person: Lynda Van Devanter.” In fact, many of us in the room that night would probably have said the same thing.
Many were there because of the personal courage Lynda demonstrated by writing and publishing Home Before Morning, her critically acclaimed memoir about her life before, during, and after her service as an Army nurse in Vietnam. The fi
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Honoring Army Nurse Lynda Van Devanter
The prominent Nov. 25 obituary on U.S. Army nurse Lynda Van Devanter is not only a tribute to a brave lady but also a reminder of the terrible mental and spiritual wounds suffered by the war combatants that prevent them from ever living a normal life again. She was especially honored by the Vietnam Veterans of America for telling that story. Now, America is rushing into another ruinous foreign war with no mention of the inevitable human consequences to ourselves and those we have demonized as the “enemy.”
We can honor Van Devanter’s memory by doing all we can to stop America’s warlords from sending young men and women to Iraq to be similarly destroyed in mind, if not body, to establish empire and U.S. world domination. That is how President Bush can truly support our troops and promote the security of our country and our neighbors as well. It’s the patriotic thing to do.
Patrick F. Flynn
Yorba Linda