In the final week of Women’s History Month, we honor the women of the Vietnam War. Our Museum Educator, Samantha Brooks, shares the story of Lynda Van Devanter, a nurse who served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. Lynda was assigned to the 71st Evacuation Hospital in Pleiku province, Vietnam. She worked long, grueling, twelve-hour shifts in a poorly equipped and tightly packed hospital. Each day, she treated soldiers with horrifying wounds while listening to the sounds of explosions and s

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