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Quotes By Famous People: Women Who Served In Vietnam

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Haven Marquez
7th Grade English
Mrs.King
January 20, 2015

Women who Served in Vietnam
“Mankind must put an end to war or, war will put an end to mankind” ~ John F Kennedy Famous Quotes. Quotes by Famous People. Quotation Of . COM." Famous Quotes. Quotes by Famous People. Quotations Of . COM.
Many people wonder what life was like for these women. What did the women do, what was life like for them, what effects did war have on these women, after reading this essay people may stop wondering. Women played many important roles in the war, what were some of the things they did? Just about 7,500 women served on active military duty in Vietnam. As said by Elwood-Akers. Women served in vietnam many staff assignments, in hospitals, crewed on medical …show more content…

Women suffered many of the same effects as men. They have suffered emotional, physical and mental effects that they will carry for the rest of their lives. Women missed their family a lot, most women were hoping for evacuation , so they could go home to see their family. In this article it says in the article written by, Hart Roxine C.Some woman mental effects from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a disease brought on by acute combat experience. As it says in leitenberg, Milton, and Richard Dean Burns article. Women had physical effects, like when women were bombed with agent orange, and if/when they had kids their kids would have birth defects too. When bomb with agent orange, it caused serious health issues including, tumors rashes, psychological symptoms and cancer-among returning U.S servicemen and families as well as well as among the vietnamese population.AS said in Veterans and Agent orange …show more content…

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Hart, Roxine C. Women in Combat. Patrick AFB, FL: Institute, 1991. Print.
Khan, Sayeed Hasan. The Vietnam Conflict. Lahore: All-Pakistan Youth Movement, 1967. Print.
Leitenberg, Milton, and Richard Dean Burns. The Vietnam Conflict; Its Geographical Dimensions, Political Traumas, & Military Developments. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1973. Print.
Leitenberg, Milton, and Richard Dean Burns. The Vietnam Conflict; Its Geographical Dimensions, Political Traumas, & Military Developments. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1973. Print.
Veterans and Agent Orange: Health Effects of Herbicides Used in Vietnam. Washington, D.C.: National Academy, 1994.

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