The Nurses of Vietnam

Vietnam: The Nurses
Vietnam Poetry Suite, Vol. 2

by J. David Abbott

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Included in this suite of poems, the personal experiences of nurses serving in South Vietnam during the U.S.-Vietnamese War are described in chilling, graphic images. Issues that arose during the Vietnam era resonate with the universal theme of the futility of war.
Most historians agree that the "Tet Offensive" launched by the North Vietnamese in January, 1968, was the pivotal turning point of the American war in Vietnam. Vietnam: The Nurses offers an insight by those who lived this historical event at ground level.

"Now I Lay Me Down"
A young woman tells the story of how she is faced with a mortal decision when she meets an old friend from back home during the first terrible night of "Tet."

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"Cu Chi: Above and Below"
The American war in Vietnam was the first occasion in which the enemy was sometimes not easily identified or located in the dense jungle and extensive network of caves built by the communists insurgents. In this poem, a U.S. Army evacuation hospital is constructed unwittingly and literally over the enemy's hospital and weapons stash in the caves below. Two nurses, one American, one North Vietnamese, provide two of the voices in a glimpse into their juxtaposed experiences, exposing common ground in both women's lives (based on true stories from the Tet Offensive).

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Each poetry suite includes at least two poems and resource material.

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