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Mom and M1: An Khe, 1969
Submitted by BorisDaBastid on Sun, 11/01/2009 - 11:55am.
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My mother in Vietnam, 1969. Her hospital was on alert for one reason or another, and she decided to have a picture taken with a soldier's M1 carbine. As a nurse, she of course didn't have her own personal weapon. View full size.
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God Bless Her
Submitted by Kilroy on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 2:46pm.
and all Vietnam vets who won all the battles fighting the good fight.
We were so young
Submitted by DoninVa on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 11:46pm.
This photo of your mother is powerful. It penetrates 40 years of life and memories and what might have been. Your mom was a year or two older than me in 1969, after all, she graduated nursing school, but we had the look of babies.
Did this all really happen?
Did we really go to that place?
And now when I buy shirts
I find little tags telling me
Made in Vietnam
and sometimes I cry.
A brave gal
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 12:03am.
Yhere were plenty of women that served in Vietnam, in capacities such as this nurse. They put themselves in danger too, some of them were killed over there.
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