CLEVELAND — Minutes before 6 a.m., Army nurse Martha Green woke with a jolt to a thunderous explosion half a mile away. It was the steamy morning of June 8, 1969, and she was in her bed at Chu Lai base at the height of the Vietnam War. Among the roughly 11,000 American women stationed in Vietnam, Lane was the only one killed by hostile fire during the decadeslong war. "Most nurses had just graduated nursing school," said Rosalie Smith, a Chu Lai nurse. When Lane arrived in Vietnam in April 1969, she found the work and camaraderie she was looking for.

Source: The China Post May 28, 2017 17:03 UTC