Nov 7, 2024
This month I decided to share a physical book I read while I was in Hawaii (I read 4 books that week lol) as I think it is very timely with Remembrance Day coming up.
The book follows a young girl in the 60’s and 70’s as she volunteers as an army nurse in Vietnam and the battles she faces when she returns home. It was heartbreaking to read about the horrific devastation she lived through during the war and equally sad to read about how she was vilified and spat on when she returned home or was told there weren‘t any women in Vietnam so she didn’t qualify for the Veterans assistance to deal with her PTSD. The struggles and shame she went through after sacrificing so much for her country are still happening for veterans today.
No matter what your feelings on war are, it is important to remember and support the men and women who sacrifice so much including sometimes their lives so that we have the freedoms we often take for granted.