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20 Aug 67
Dear Daryl,
…Several times a week we visit the hospital. We see fellows with their arms and legs blown off, their heads smashed in and pieced together, eyes lost and hearts completely broken. The biggest gift we can give them is a human female hand and some cheerful words. Like "Hi, how are you doing?" We’re not in the business of giving sympathy. We have to treat them as if nothing is wrong at all. Absolutely nothing…
Jeanne
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Jeanne B. Christie, who hails from Madison, Wisconsin, served as a "Donut Dollie" with the American Red Cross from January 1967-February 1968, based in Danang. Since 1982, she has been active in Vietnam awareness groups, lately focusing on the issues facing women who served in a wide variety of roles in Vietnam. She is currently a professor at Western Connecticut State University. She teaches leadership development and is a decorative painter. Her children grown and gone, she and her husband live in Connecticut. Accounts of her time in Vietnam appear in A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of Twenty-six American Women Who Served in Vietnam, by Keith Walker (Presidio, 1985), and In the Combat Zone: An Oral History of American Women in Vietnam, by Kathryn Marshall (Little, Brown and Company, 1987).
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