Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33322 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-08-18
• Formats: Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, Full Screen, Surround Sound, NTSC
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 45 minutes

Customer Reviews

A thought provoking tribute to nurses
I saw this dvd at a nursing convention and picked up one for myself and a friend of mine who has an interest in nursing during the Vietnam war. This dvd offers a thought provoking look into what the lives of nurses who served in Vietnam were really like. It is a story that the public did not hear about very much or wanted to acknowledge and is brought to life by real nurses who experienced it. As a nurse myself, I saw in these women all the attributes that a nurse should exhibit such as compassion, dedication, the healing power of touch and a kind word, and empathy. Like many of the soldiers that served, these nurses were in their late teens to early 20s when they went to serve and were not prepared for what they were going to experience in war. These experiences definitely impacted their lives and is something they can never forget and still haunts them today. Their story needed to be told and the recognition of these real life heroes is long overdue. Without these nurses, more lives would have been lost. I also found it fitting that they had Dana Delay narrating the documentary since she had portrayed a Vietnam era nurse in the TV Series "China Beach."

Touching
Very well done!! Worth every penny and provides insights not only into the nurses who served, but also anyone who served in that confusing time and place. The saying that "there are no unwounded soldiers in a war" is very much a reality.

Salute to Combat Nurses
As a surviving combat Marine Grunt of the Viet Nam war, I want to laud this movie, that shows the very real part American nurses in Viet Nam played to support, not the war, but the soldiers and Marines who were wounded and med-evaced to an aid station, a surgical unit, or hospital ship. This was officially the first time American women served in a combat area where they could also be wounded or killed. They served, they treated and they provided for the wounded and the dying - not an easy challenge for the most hardened combat vet. Women in combat, especially these very brave women in Viet Nam, deserve all the credit they receive and more. There are many veterans today who give credit to their survival, not to the doctors, but to the American nurses who took care of them.

Semper Fi, nurses. You deserve much more than you received from that war.