Joann Puffer Kotcher
Autor de Donut Dolly: An American Red Cross Girl's War in Vietnam (North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series)
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Donut Dolly : an American Red Cross girl's war in… por Joann Puffer Kotcher
This is a personal view of the Vietnam war, recorded in a journal kept during her tour, day by day as she experienced it. She was one of the first women officially allowed in the combat zone as a civilian noncombatant. Initially a pacifist,she is transformed into a combat veteran, faced with life or death decisions. She served in Vietnam from May 1966 until May 1967. Section titles are : Arrival and An Khe, Dong Ba Thin, Di An, Bien Hoa and the Voyage Home. Hard back, 361 pages
I wanted to read this book after hearing the author on public radio.
Donut Dolly was the nick name of the American Red Cross girls. Something I had never heard of before. The American Red Cross had sent young women (who had to be college educated and unmarried and under 25) to the war front to make the men feel more at home. In Korea they handed out donuts hence where the name came from.
In Vietnam donuts would melt in the hot sun, so it was more just kool-aid and being able to see a pretty american girl. The world has changed so much in the near 60 years since Vietnam that I still have a hard time fathoming.
I kept expecting her boyfriend to die since she kept talking about how much danger she was in and the last name on the authors page wasn't the same as Bob's, the ending was a bit of a surprise still.
She left Flint a Christian pacifist, she came home a right-wing reactionary warhawk (my words not hers)
The book was fine. A general memoir of her every day adventures in the war. I didn't feel like I had any more understanding of their role than I did during her interview on the radio. I wouldn't really recommend it unless you have a particular interest in knowing all of the Vietnam War.… (más)
Donut Dolly was the nick name of the American Red Cross girls. Something I had never heard of before. The American Red Cross had sent young women (who had to be college educated and unmarried and under 25) to the war front to make the men feel more at home. In Korea they handed out donuts hence where the name came from.
In Vietnam donuts would melt in the hot sun, so it was more just kool-aid and being able to see a pretty american girl. The world has changed so much in the near 60 years since Vietnam that I still have a hard time fathoming.
I kept expecting her boyfriend to die since she kept talking about how much danger she was in and the last name on the authors page wasn't the same as Bob's, the ending was a bit of a surprise still.
She left Flint a Christian pacifist, she came home a right-wing reactionary warhawk (my words not hers)
The book was fine. A general memoir of her every day adventures in the war. I didn't feel like I had any more understanding of their role than I did during her interview on the radio. I wouldn't really recommend it unless you have a particular interest in knowing all of the Vietnam War.… (más)
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