I finished The Women by Kristen Hannah a few days ago. It was so good!!!
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing stude…
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It's about the women who served as nurses in the Vietnam war, and how they were more or less invisible when they came back. They would see horrible injuries not only in the soldiers, but also local people who they also treated....nepalm burns, lost limbs, etc so they came back with PTSD, but there were no resources for the women. Men could go to the VA to get treatment, but women were told "There were no women in Vietnam" and when they said they were nurses, they were told the services were only for the men who had seen combat.
We already knew that the veterans who came back from Vietnam were treated poorly, but I had no idea that the nurses didn't even have access to the veteran resources that the men had access to. It was kind of heartbreaking. But it's also a beautiful story of friendship. I know it's a fictional work and the characters aren't real, but I can imagine it's representative of real people, because I would imagine that going through something like they did WOULD make them all very close. When you only have each other, you are experiencing the same trauma, and no one else understands what you went through, you would rely on eachother. So I guess it's both a happy and a sad book...there are some great characters, and some that you want to punch.
It's a heavy subject matter, but it's handled with a lot of humor, too, so it isn't nearly as heavy as The Nightengale was. That was a great book, but very dark and kind of depressing, and I needed some fluff after reading it. This one wasn't like that. It was more hopeful, I guess.
ray and obey? I've also watched Prisoner of the Prophet and I THINK it was called Prophet of Evil. There are several out there and I don't have access to most of them over here, but I've seen the ones I can. The more I see, the worse it gets. There are so many layers of that onion to peel back and it just gets more and more disturbing.
