Courageous Women of the Vietnam War
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“Two Americans a Day”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 112.
“I had never seen”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 114.
“twisted metal” … “cold chill”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 115–116.
“saturation point” … “were among”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 130.
“The care of”: Aries Matheos, “Around Annapolis: 1st Navy Nurse Corps Officer to Volunteer for Vietnam Honored by DAR,” Capital (MD) Gazette, October 31, 2014, www.capitalgazette.com/neighborhoods/ph-ac-cc-around-annapolis-1031-20141031-story.html.
Excerpts from Bobbi Hovis, Station Hospital Saigon: A Navy Nurse in Vietnam, 1963–1964 (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1992) used by permission of Naval Institute Press.
PART III: 1965–1968
exceeds 100 million: www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM.
“there was no more”: Frank Kusch, Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004), 43.
“an honorable end”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HBON-ZIyUE.
KAY WILHELMY BAUER
“Kay, just a minute”: Kay Bauer, “Catherine (Kay) M. Bauer,” in Vietnam War Nurses: Personal Accounts of 18 Americans, ed. Patricia Rushton (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013), 11.
“I think so” … “There’s a &%$+”: Bauer, “Catherine,” 11.
“I was so surprised”: Bauer, “Catherine,” 19.
“Wait a minute”: Bauer, “Catherine,” 19.
“Are you LCDR Bauer?”: Kay Bauer, e-mail correspondence with author, February 14, 2016.
“‘Wrong House’ idea”: Kay Bauer personal papers (article title and date unknown).
“We have just unveiled”: Diane Carlson Evans, Vietnam Women’s Memorial unveiling speech, November 11, 1993.
“overwhelmed by the number”: Kay Bauer, interview with author, December 2, 2016.
“The VAMC at that time”: Bauer interview, December 2, 2016.
JURATE KAZICKAS
“Everything we have done”: Jurate Kazickas, “These Hills Called Khe Sanh,” in War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam, Tad Bartimus et al. (New York: Random House, 2002), 124.
“raging fires that”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 123.
“crazy, terrifying”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 126.
“Something was planted”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 126.
“elephant”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 128.
“Hardcore!”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 130.
“Watching them kidding”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 128.
“What’s a woman like you”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 124.
“You mean you came” … “My country was taken”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 125.
“journalistic fraternity” … “What the hell”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 133.
“War, for all its”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 135–136.
“Don’t worry, man” … “The moment was”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 140.
“terrifying visions” … “Without the companionship”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 142.
“American soldiers were”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 136.
“What are they”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 143.
“the unmistakable”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 144.
“subliminal pull” … “I seemed inexorably”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 149.
“Getting wounded”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 150.
“passionate about” … “memories with a vengeance”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 151.
“one frantic night” … “We thought you”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 151–152.
Excerpts from Jurate Kazickas, “These Hills Called Khe Sanh,” in War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam, Tad Bartimus et al. (New York: Random House, 2002) used by permission of International Creative Management, Inc.
IRIS MARY ROSER
“I walked off”: Iris Mary Roser, Ba Rose: My Years in Vietnam, 1968–1971 (Sydney: Pan Books, 1991), 9.
“Don’t you know” … “But unlike them”: Roser, Ba Rose, 12.
“Unfortunately, you have”: Roser, Ba Rose, 14.
“through the village”: Roser, Ba Rose, 23.
“Go! Go!”: Roser, Ba Rose, 24.
“Their gratitude for”: Roser, Ba Rose, 33.
“to appease their gods”: Roser, Ba Rose, 34.
“Hello, Mrs. Water Buffalo”: Roser, Ba Rose, 35.
“expecting a burst”: Roser, Ba Rose, 47.
“Charlie” … “a dark head”: Roser, Ba Rose, 62.
“Ong Krah, he is coming!”: Roser, Ba Rose, 64.
“I wondered”: Roser, Ba Rose, 65.
“How stupid can you”: Roser, Ba Rose, 66.
became “Ba [Mrs.] Rose”: Ba Rose, 94.
“Who are the recipients” … “a link in”: Roser, Ba Rose, 95.
“When we entered”: Roser, Ba Rose, 103.
“She was afraid”: Roser, Ba Rose, 104.
“In sum, here is”: Roser, Ba Rose, 287.
Extracts from Iris Mary Roser, Ba Rose: My Years in Vietnam, 1968–1971 (Sydney: Pan Books, 1991) reprinted by permission of Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd. Copyright © Iris Mary Roser 1991.
PART IV: 1969–1970
eventually igniting a third World War: David F. Schmitz, Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War: The End of the American Century (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), 5.
accusations flowing as freely as the French wine: Richard Burks Verrone and Laura M. Calkins, Voices from Vietnam: Eye-Witness Accounts of the War, 1954–1975 (Exeter, UK: David & Charles, 2005), 269.
“the great silent majority” … “The defense of freedom”: “Silent Majority,” Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, www.nixonlibrary.gov/forkids/speechesforkids/silentmajority.php.
“for the purpose”: Schmitz, Nixon, 89.
“might be on”: “Richard M. Nixon: Address to the Nation About a New Initiative for Peace in Southeast Asia—October 7, 1970,” American Presidency Project, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=2708.
ANNE KOCH
“Ooh, blood!”: Anne Koch Voigt, e-mail correspondence with author, November 2, 2015.
“It was quite a shock!”: Voigt e-mail, November 14, 2015.
“I knew in my heart”: Voigt e-mail, November 14, 2015.
“I don’t know why” … “the fastest”: Voigt e-mail, November 14, 2015.
“A Poem for Anne Koch”: Anne Koch Voigt papers.
“We would smile”: Voigt e-mail, November 14, 2015.
“Cowboys and Indians” … “can happen in”: Voigt e-mail, November 14, 2015.
“I never forgot the care”: Anne Koch Voigt papers.
“There was nothing different”: Voigt e-mail, November 14, 2015.
“just-in-case blood”: Voigt e-mail, November 14, 2015.
“wide-eyed” … “I knew they were”: Voigt e-mail, November 14, 2015.
“Soon he became” … “shocked and upset”: Voigt e-mail, November 14, 2015.
“short-time calendar” … “I had the wrong”: Voigt e-mail, November 18, 2015.
“Class As” … “I haven’t done anything”: Voigt e-mail, November 18, 2015.
“You always knew”: Voigt e-mail, November 18, 2015.
“It may not have”: Voigt e-mail, November 18, 2015.
DANG THUY TRAM
“This year greater”: Dang Thuy Tram, Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram, trans. Andrew X. Pham (New York: Harmony Books, 2007), 79–80.
“Our responsibility is”: Dang, Last Night, 22.
“My clearest feeling”: Dang, Last Night, 55.
“I have a physician’s”: Dang, Last Night, 20.
“Greetings, Doctor!”: Dang, Last Night, 82.
“Oh, Bon” … “Hatred for”: Dang, Last Night, 83.
WAITING FOR YOU … “crimes committed”: Dang, Las
t Night, 99–100.
“free-fire zones”: Dang, Last Night, 103n97.
“It’s not yet 8:30” … “between ragged breaths”: Dang, Last Night, 112–113.
“the roar of planes”: Dang, Last Night, 119.
“the intensity of” … “a maelstrom”: Dang, Last Night, 120–121.
“Where each bomb” … “From a position”: Dang, Last Night, 135.
“eerily empty” … “If the enemy comes”: Dang, Last Night, 140–141.
“Perhaps I will meet”: Dang, Last Night, 146.
“soaking wet and shivering”: Dang, Last Night, 160.
“Death is close”: Dang, Last Night, 172.
“Trees downed in every”: Dang, Last Night, 215.
“Don’t burn this one”: Dang, Last Night, xvi.
“What agony!”: Dang, Last Night, 41.
“struggle for national salvation”: Charles E. Neu, ed., After Vietnam: Legacies of a Lost War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), 89.
1.5 million … 60,000: Karen Gottschang Turner with Phan Thanh Hao, Even the Women Must Fight (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998), 20.
Excerpts from Dang Thuy Tram, Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram, trans. Andrew X. Pham (New York: Harmony Books, 2007), translation copyright © 2007 by Andrew X. Pham, used by permission of Harmony Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. All rights reserved.
LYNDA VAN DEVANTER
“Those guys” … “I think you’re both”: Lynda Van Devanter with Christopher Morgan, Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam (New York: Beaufort Books, 1983), 49.
“Essentially, we were deciding”: Van Devanter, Home, 68.
“jerking wildly”: Van Devanter, Home, 76.
“Men, we just came” … “But if there”: Van Devanter, Home, 77.
“Coiled barbed wire” … “supposedly unending”: Van Devanter, Home, 78.
“There were only fifteen”: Van Devanter, Home, 82.
“A blur of wounded” … “slow period”: Van Devanter, Home, 85.
“the war was”: Van Devanter, Home, 87.
“Attention all personnel”: Van Devanter, Home, 90.
“How do you know”: Van Devanter, Home, 91.
“The moans and screams”: Van Devanter, Home, 96.
“You’re a good help”: Van Devanter, Home, 104.
“trying to sound” … “Nobody does”: Van Devanter, Home, 105.
“At 4:16 a.m.”: Van Devanter, Home, 113.
“Let the old glory mongers”: Van Devanter, Home, 131.
“as a warning”: Van Devanter, Home, 132.
“in Vietnam to save”: Van Devanter, Home, 134.
“It would be a lot easier”: Van Devanter, Home, 139.
“Holding the hand” … “If you can’t feel”: Van Devanter, Home, 144.
“They were all with me”: Van Devanter, Home, 173.
“freedom flight” … “As the jet”: Van Devanter, Home, 207.
“We’re going past the airport” … “that naïve”: Van Devanter, Home, 211.
“less gruesome” … “I had learned”: Van Devanter, Home, 221.
“Lynda’s book”: “Vietnam Veterans of America Mourns the Loss of Lynda Van Devanter,” Leatherneck.com, www.leatherneck.com/forums/showthread.php?2495-Vietnam-Veterans-Of-America-Mourns-The-Loss-Of-Lynda-Van-Devanter&s=e0131ddd162ce635538f29d7c0e9b3be.
Excerpts from Lynda Van Devanter with Christopher Morgan, Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam (New York: Beaufort Books, 1983) used by permission of the Buckley family.
PART V: 1971–1975
“morally wrong”: Christian G. Appy, Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides (New York: Penguin Books, 2004), 393.
“search-and-avoid”: Brian Flora, Vietnam veteran, interview with author, January 6, 2017.
“Why did you let us win?”: Tom Bissell, The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam (New York: Pantheon, 2007), 91.
“repeatedly and in massive”: “Gerald R. Ford: The President’s News Conference—April 3, 1975,” American Presidency Project, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=4812.
“Yes, we defeated”: Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: A History—the First Complete Account of Vietnam at War (New York: Viking, 1983), 9.
“I didn’t want to be measured”: Chad Stewart, “Former POW, Ambassador, Shares His Unique Perspective on Vietnam,” On Patrol, summer 2014, http://usoonpatrol.org/archives/2014/08/13/former-pow-ambassador-shares-h.
KATE WEBB
“It was simply”: Kate Webb, “Highpockets,” in War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam, Tad Bartimus et al. (New York: Random House, 2002), 61.
“seriously hungry”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 62.
“function and write”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 64.
“political clamor”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 70.
“dragging war” … “the tiny phosphorous”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 69.
“engulfed in chaos”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 71.
“No”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 72.
“fire burst from all sides”: Kate Webb, On the Other Side: 23 Days with the Viet Cong (New York: Quadrangle Books, 1972), 9.
“April 8”: Webb, Other Side, 13.
“Nha bao” … “Nuoc”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 73–74.
“That the others”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 74.
“I tasted it” … “compulsive documenting”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 74.
“slipped like shadows”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 76.
“As our numbers”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 75.
“Do not be afraid”: Webb, Other Side, 47.
“Why were you down” … “Now I wish”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 76.
“Why were you with” … “too long”: Webb, Other Side, 49.
“An odd thing happened”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 75–76.
“the gray limbo” … “Hope, we had learned”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 78.
“liberated”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 79.
“Mad Hatter’s tea party” … “humane treatment”: Webb, Other Side, 141–142.
“stood alone in the dark”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 79.
“Kassat, kassat”: Webb, Other Side, 152.
“Miss Webb”: Webb, Other Side, 153.
“bizarre mixture”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 79.
“a field reporter” … “what was happening”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 84–85.
“There were suicides”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 85.
“fearless action reporter”: Douglas Martin, “Kate Webb, War Correspondent, Dies at 64,” New York Times, May 15, 2007.
Excerpts from Kate Webb, “Highpockets,” in War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam, Tad Bartimus et al. (New York: Random House, 2002) used by permission of International Creative Management, Inc.
JOAN BAEZ
“quit meddling around”: Joan Baez, And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir (New York: Summit Books, 1987), 117.
“a quiet revelation” … “disaster”: Baez, And a Voice, 119.
“Well, I imagine”: Baez, And a Voice, 121.
“filled with young men”: Baez, And a Voice, 123.
“Do not kill” … “Yes, it’s right”: Joan Baez, Daybreak (New York: Dial, 1966), 87.
“I will not bring myself”: Baez, Daybreak, 85.
“alert”: Baez, And a Voice, 201.
“look at Nixon’s peace”: Baez, And a Voice, 208.
“terrible” … “end real soon”: Baez, And a Voice, 212.
“What I mean is”: Baez, And a Voice, 213.
“My son, my son”: Baez, And a Voice, 218.
“Instead of bringing hope”: Joan Baez, “Open Letter to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,” New York Times, May 30, 1979, A14.
JOAN BAEZ GAVE COMFOR
T … “You know”: “Waydownsouth,” “Joan Baez Diffuses Right Wing Protest at Idaho Concert,” Daily Kos, August 12, 2009, www.dailykos.com/story/2009/08/12/765667/-Joan-Baez-diffuses-right-wing-protest-at-Idaho-concert.
TRACY WOOD
“When do I leave” … “If anything happened”: Tracy Wood, “Spies, Lovers, and Prisoners of War,” in War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam, ed. Tad Bartimus et al. (Random House, 2002), 224.
“Landry had just”: Wood, “Spies,” 225.
“You’re too feminine” … “Don’t become like”: Wood, “Spies,” 228.
“I couldn’t let this happen”: Wood, “Spies,” 228.
“You don’t want anything” … “Cowboys”: Wood, “Spies,” 229.
“Well, we can’t tell Arthur”: Wood, “Spies,” 230.
“We’re only reporters”: Wood, “Spies,” 227.
“Bribery was so commonplace”: Tracy Wood, “A War Correspondent Turned Lifelong Corruption Fighter,” Voice of Orange County, April 29, 2015, http://voiceofoc.org/2015/04/a-war-correspondent-turned-lifelong-corruption-fighter/.
“I lost all sensation”: Wood, “Spies,” 232.
“a massive hammering” … “His left hand”: Wood, “Spies,” 234.
“A cease-fire, internationally”: “Richard M. Nixon: Address to the Nation Announcing Conclusion of an Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam—January 23, 1973,” American Presidency Project, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=3808.
“something in their posture”: Wood, “Spies,” 244.
“nagged by” … “They had no identity”: Wood, “Spies,” 245.
“Is that really Walter Cronkite” … “the Most Trusted”: Wood, “Spies,” 246.
Excerpts from Tracy Wood, “Spies, Lovers, and Prisoners of War,” in War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam, Tad Bartimus et al. (Random House, 2002) used by permission of International Creative Management, Inc.
KIM PHUC
“You are Kim Phuc?”: Denise Chong, The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War (New York: Penguin Books, 2001), 190.