illed in the conflict, so no additional monument was needed” (Evans 90). Finally, after a hard fought battle, a monument was created for the nursed that were in Vietnam. Although the nurses were given little credit fir saving many lives they still served bravely in any crisis.The bravery of the nurses is unquestioned. The nurses would hold a man’s hand as he died or smile at a man who was cut beyond recognition. These nurses would stand by a soldier and tell him that he would be all right, knowing that he would never walk again (Smith 173). This does show bravery because the nurses never gave into the stress of their job. Or in another case, a nurse was cutting through a bandage and lifted it off the patient’s face only to discover that his eyeball came out with it. She still worked on the solider and tried to calm his tears (Smith 173). There were soldiers that ran at the first signs of battle or vomited at the sight of blood, yet these nurses pushed on to the next patient no matter how mutilated he was. There was another time when a nurse said, “A casualty was waiting to die and I must still care for him” (Van Devanter 173). The nurses also has to swallow their pride and learn many new life-saving techniques. The nurses were bold enough to admit to not knowing everything. The nurses also had to work without sufficient equipment to repair an injured soldier (soldier 118). The nurses also Little 4had to work through fatigue, regardless of how tired they were. Many times they worked twenty-two hour shifts, constantly seeing blood and wounds (Evans 90). There should not be any credit taken away from the soldiers fighting the war because they were definitely brave, but the nurses did not have any weapons to defend themselves against the enemy. The nurses had to keep working on patients even when rockets were exploding around them. The women may not have lost their lives during battle on the ...
