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War is hell—but on television, it can also be pretty funny, as proven by the history of classic TV military comedies. For ...
As Hmong Americans mark the 50th anniversary of their arrival in the U.S. this year, the role of Hmong women, who were ...
Tony Hughes, Sr., saw the military as an opportunity. Originally from Pigeon Roost, North Carolina, he volunteered to serve in Vietnam. “Well, there wasn’t much that was going on up there in them ...
Diane Carlson Evans, Vietnam War nurse and trailblazing advocate, received two awards Thursday at the Montana Military Museum celebrating her decades of service and fight for women veterans ...
The Wall That Heals contains the names of 58,281 military personnel who were killed in action during the Vietnam War or listed as missing. Of those killed in action, eight were nurses — seven ...
Capt. Harriet Winkler began her military service in 1943 as a U.S. Army nurse and went on to serve with distinction in World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam.
As part of our StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative, we hear from Army Major Carol Kirk. She deployed to Vietnam as an Army nurse in 1969 and remembers some of the men she cared for.
Carol Kirk has a long history of military service and sacrifice in her family. Father was a pilot in World War II. He was shot down and lost in the Pacific. Her uncle was killed in Korea. Carol ...