Be glad you were not one of these poor guys!!!!!
This is part of a book review. The entire site story is linked
below.)
Like all good nurses everywhere, Van Devanter was expected to
comfort her patients, calm their fears, hold their hands, ease
their loneliness. That was no more than she expected of herself.
When she punched out of Vietnam in June of 1970, at the age of
twenty-three she had already seen dozens of grotesque and
extravagant varieties of death and mutilation. Even now, after all
these years, when she describes her experience, her voice projects
the need to speak with both care and efficiency; if she speaks too
callously or loudly, the fragile words might themselves tear apart
and bleed. "We had a whole squad that was brought in one day. They
had been hung up by their ankles. Their genitals had been cut off
and stuffed in their mouths. Not a pretty sight. Not the sort of
thing a young woman of twenty-one or twenty-two expects to see."
Wow, apparently some or all survived their castrations if they were
being treated and cared for by the nurses. Imagine waking up
surrounded by a group of female nurses all knowing your "babymaker" was cut
off !!!
Here is the link for the whole article.
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR06.3/kane.html
