Kathy Shore was 21 and unprepared for the wounds she'd care for at the 3rd Field Hospital. 'We saved a lot of lives,” the ...

On a Sunday morning 55 years ago in Chu Lai, Vietnam, retired Army Col. Elizabeth G. Gorman Jr. had just sent the nurses under her command off to church when a frantic call came over the radio. A ...

Elaine James was among the very few women who served in Vietnam, not as a nurse, but in military intelligence.

AUSTIN, Texas — Linda Knightstep was only 9 years old when she made a decision that would determine the path her life would take. “It was very clear to me that caring for others was what I wanted to ...

Carol Olson of Howland, left, places a candle in remembrance of one of the eight nurses who died in Vietnam while Johanne Bartholomew, also of Howland, leaves a white rose and places her hand on the ...

As a nurse in Vietnam, Cheryl Feala carried many things in her pockets. She had bandages, gauge, a writing pen, safety pins on a pair of scissors and a package of cigarettes and a lighter. Back in ...

Janet Speck has spent her career helping others, from treating soldiers in war zones to delivering babies in local hospitals.

During the Vietnam War, William Broyles Jr. was deployed as an infantry platoon commander in the Marine Corps and visited a Navy hospital there full of severely injured troops. Peering through a ...

Although Mark Conrad began collecting German war relics as a child in Cape Girardeau, Mo., it wasn’t until the year 2001 that his collection began to take on a life of its own. “When I was a kid my ...