
Angels of Vietnam
Clip: Season 4 Episode 1 | 2m 48sVideo has Closed Captions
Army Veterans share impactful stories of women who served as Army nurses during the Vietnam War.
Army veterans Dr. Sam Babu and Edie Meeks recount their experience serving as medical professionals in the Vietnam War. Dr. Sam Babu tells the story of Sharon Lane, the only nurse to die of enemy fire in Vietnam. Edie Meeks describes the emotional impact of working as a Army nurses.
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Angels of Vietnam
Clip: Season 4 Episode 1 | 2m 48sVideo has Closed Captions
Army veterans Dr. Sam Babu and Edie Meeks recount their experience serving as medical professionals in the Vietnam War. Dr. Sam Babu tells the story of Sharon Lane, the only nurse to die of enemy fire in Vietnam. Edie Meeks describes the emotional impact of working as a Army nurses.
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Babu> I want to tell you the story of Sharon Lane.
<Okay> She graduated from Aultman Nursing School in Canton, Ohio, and was accepted in the Army Nurse Corps.
And she was deployed at the 312th Evac hospital, which was in the northern part of South Vietnam.
Vietnam War was a guerilla war from the North Vietnamese point of view.
They shot at all kinds of things and occasionally at hospitals too.
So on the night of the 8th of June 1969, I was in bed and the siren went off.
So I grabbed my stuff and I ran into the bunker and I sat on the window.
And suddenly there was this huge sound of an explosion, and I could really feel the shaking of the ground.
And that actually was the grenade there, or bomb or whatever it was, that fell on 312th.
The bomb fell on 312th Evac and a nurse was killed.
That was Sharon Lane.
There are eight nurses who died in Vietnam, during the war was going on, who were deployed there.
She was the only one who died of enemy fire.
I just wanted to tell her story because... they are the angels of... they are the angels, the nurses who served there.
> I joined the Army Nurse Corps.
Then I went to Vietnam for a year.
I was at 3rd Field Hospital in Saigon, 71st Evac.
And then after that, I didn't want to ever see the army ever again.
I was so filled with anger and rage.
And I don't think I'd ever felt rage before, but it was just welled up in you when you would see these kids come in that the Army was not valuing them, that the government was not.
These are citizen soldiers.
These are not mercenaries that you've hired.
They're citizen soldiers and they've done what you've asked them to do and you haven't valued their bodies and who they are, cause every one of those kids was a person and had a family.
You know, in the normal emergency room, everything makes sense.
The fat guy has a heart attack, and the kid with no helmet on has a head injury and kid falling out of a tree broke his arm.
But over there you had perfectly healthy young men being blown up.
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