AUSTIN, Texas — Linda Knightstep was only 9 years old when she made a decision that would determine the path her life would take. “It was very clear to me that caring for others was what I wanted to ...

In 1968, Kathy Shore volunteered to serve as an Army nurse at a front-line hospital during the Vietnam War. Back then, she was freshly 21 years old — and wholly unprepared. Having just completed a ...

Diane Carlson Evans, Vietnam War nurse and trailblazing advocate, received two awards Thursday at the Montana Military Museum celebrating her decades of service and fight for women veterans' ...

On a Sunday morning 55 years ago in Chu Lai, Vietnam, retired Army Col. Elizabeth G. Gorman Jr. had just sent the nurses under her command off to church when a frantic call came over the radio. A ...

As the men and women who fought and died in service of their country are remembered on Memorial Day, several veterans and civilians who served in the Vietnam War spoke about the friends they lost in a ...

(KVEO) – A dedicated nurse who served in Vietnam and later in Texas, Janet Speck has spent her career helping others, from treating soldiers in war zones to delivering babies in local hospitals. Speck ...

Carol Olson of Howland, left, places a candle in remembrance of one of the eight nurses who died in Vietnam while Johanne Bartholomew, also of Howland, leaves a white rose and places her hand on the ...

During the Vietnam War, William Broyles Jr. was deployed as an infantry platoon commander in the Marine Corps and visited a Navy hospital there full of severely injured troops. Peering through a ...