Posts Tagged ‘Red Cross’
Donut Dollies Re-Unite
Surely it hasn't been almost 40 years since I returned from Vietnam. Surely the intervening years didn't disappear like smoke from a summer campfire. Surely the very real events of my youth haven't already been relegated to the unreality of history. Surely not, yet I have in my hands a piece of paper that suggests otherwise. This week [...]
The Walk on the Moon
Forty years ago Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin walked on the moon. As they were doing so, I was trudging around another stark landscape - a fire support base in Vietnam. I was one of 125 American Red Cross Donut Dollies who were stationed in-Country at the time. My co-workers and I were sent mostly to forward areas, so we got to know the [...]
