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Home before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam Paperback – July 12, 2001
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Lynda Van Devanter was the girl next door, the cheerleader who went to Catholic schools, enjoyed sports, and got along well with her four sisters and parents. After high school she attended nursing school and then did something that would shatter her secure world for the rest of her life: in 1969, she joined the army and was shipped to Vietnam. When she arrived in Vietnam her idealistic view of the war vanished quickly. She worked long and arduous hours in cramped, ill-equipped, understaffed operating rooms. She saw friends die. Witnessing a war close-up, operating on soldiers and civilians whose injuries were catastrophic, she found the very foundations of her thinking changing daily. After one traumatic year, she came home, a Vietnam veteran. Coming home was nearly as devastating as the time she spent in Asia. Nothing was the same ― including Lynda herself. Viewed by many as a murderer instead of a healer, she felt isolated and angry. The anger turned to depression; like many other Vietnam veterans she suffered from delayed stress syndrome. Working in hospitals brought back chilling scenes of hopelessly wounded soldiers. A marriage ended in divorce. The war that was fought physically halfway around the world had become a personal, internal battle. Home before Morning is the story of a woman whose courage, stamina, and personal history make this a compelling autobiography. It is also the saga of others who went to war to aid the wounded and came back wounded ― physically and emotionally ― themselves. And, it is the true story of one person's triumphs: her understanding of, and coming to terms with, her destiny.
"This incredible story, which plunges us immediately into the bloodiest aspects of the war, is also a suspenseful autobiography that will keep you chewing your fingernails to see if Van Devanter survives any of it at all. She proves herself a natural storyteller. . . . The most extraordinary part in this book is Van Devanter's plight after the war―her attempt to retrieve the love of her family, only to realize they don't want to see her slides, hear her stories; her assignment to menial duties at Walter Reed Army Hospital. . . . How Van Devanter survives all of this to become, incredibly, a stronger person for it is what makes her book so riveting."― San Francisco Chronicle "An awesome, painfully honest look at war through a woman's eyes. Her letters home and startling images of life in a combat zone―surgeons fighting to save a Vietnamese baby wounded in utero, the ever-present stench of napalm-charred flesh, a beloved priest's gentle humor and appalling death, the casual heroism of her colleagues, a Vietnamese 'Papa-san' trying to talk his dead child back to life, a haunting snapshot dropped by a dying soldier with no face―tell the story of a young American's rude initiation to the best and the worst of humanity."― Washington Post "Moving, powerful . . . a healing book."― Ms. Magazine "This book reads like a diary: unguarded, heartfelt. . . . [It] is both moving and valuable, for reminding us so vividly that war is indeed hell . . . and that its most tested heroes are the doctors and nurses who doggedly labor not just to save life, but also to keep their respect for it, even as their surviving patients are sent out, once more, unto the breach."― Harper's Magazine "In Vietnam, reality hit fast: Van Devanter's plane was fired on when it landed in Saigon; and after three days of adjustment, she was assigned to the 71st Evacuation Hospital, a 'MASH-type facility' near the Cambodian border. There, the casualties, . . . the personal danger, the fatigue, the heat, rain, and mud, the harassment of officers enforcing petty regulations, and above all the meaninglessness of American involvement rapidly put an end to Van Devanter's blind patriotism, her innocence, and her youth. . . . Van Devanter brings us face to face with the toll that undeclared war took on its combatants."― Kirkus Reviews "If you read only one work about Vietnam, make this the one. . . . This is the way it was, as seen through the eyes of an army second lieutenant when she was twenty-two. I believe her completely, because this reviewer remembers Vietnam the same way, when he was a nineteen-year-old Marine PFC."― Deseret Sentinel
Lynda Van Devanter served as the National Women's Director of the Vietnam Veterans of America. She counseled other Vietnam veterans and conducted seminars around the country. Coping with ill health since her tour of duty in Vietnam, she died in November 2002 at age fifty-five.
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University of Massachusetts Press; Reprint edition (July 12, 2001) Language
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336 pages ISBN-10
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1.14 pounds Dimensions
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6.02 x 0.98 x 9.02 inches
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When my oldest daughter was in nursing school, she had to read this book. She passed it on to me because the Viet Nam war was my generation, although I was never in the military. I vividly recall reading it in bed, only being able to read maybe ten pages at a time because of what she describes. I sometimes cried. That time, circa 2000, was also after I spent time some years sharing a house with a man who was there and returned with PTSD, although neither of us understood this so many years ago. I have a good friend, half my age, who is getting a Masters in Social Work. He will be interning at a VA hospital in a couple of weeks, he's also in the AF Reserves. We were having coffee last week and I mentioned this book, saying it should be required reading for anyone dealing with patients in the VA system. I found my eyes getting wet recalling what I read almost 20 years ago! The author not only lived the horrors that she did, but she was instrumental in getting the VA to recognize that the nurses, too, were susceptible to PTSD. Stan, my man. You died too young. I love you. I'd love to have a conversation with the author.
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That's the question Lynda Van Devanter asks over and over in the course of this memoir, the centerpiece of which is her year (June 1969 to June 1970) as a surgical nurse in Vietnam, principally at the 71st Evacuation Hospital, Pleiku. She went to Vietnam a relatively carefree, healthy twenty-two-year-old. She returned damaged on the inside, both psychologically and physically. She died in 2002 at age fifty-five from an autoimmune, collagen-vascular disorder caused by exposure to toxic chemicals in Vietnam. Yet one more casualty of America's adventure in Vietnam. And for what? Outside the personal realm of family and friends, Van Devanter had three notable accomplishments in her life about which she could be proud. The first consists of her work as an extremely dedicated nurse, both in Vietnam (where in addition to American soldiers her patients also included Vietnamese soldiers and citizens) and back home in the U.S. over a two-decade nursing career. For some of those patients she was the person most responsible for saving their life. Her second notable achievement was as National Women's Director of the Vietnam Veterans of America, where she was instrumental in raising recognition of the contributions of women Vietnam veterans and in securing benefits for them. Third, there is HOME BEFORE MORNING, which deserves a place in any collection of Vietnam memoirs, especially because it is from a relatively unknown and unappreciated perspective. Van Devanter went to war as a gung-ho believer in the United States and its war in Vietnam. Disillusionment came gradually, but it had enveloped her midway through her year in-country. It was due largely to repeated encounters with devastating, gruesome wounds, some of which are horrifically detailed in the book. The hardest to deal with were the crispy critters - those charred by napalm, surely one of humankind's most insidious inventions. One can easily understand a surgeon muttering, after operating non-stop amidst blood and moans and screams for forty-eight hours, "I'd like to have Richard Nixon here for one week." Compounding the surreal hellishness of Van Devanter's year in Nam was the bureaucratic ineptitude, stupidity, and callousness so pervasive in the U.S. military. HOME BEFORE MORNING was first published in 1983, qualifying it, to quote another reviewer, as "the grandmother of female Viet Nam accounts". This 2001 edition from the University of Massachusetts Press includes an eight-page afterword by Van Devanter, written shortly before she died. The book is very easy to read, although the writing is somewhat slick and conventional, often using rather stock formulations (e.g., "I'd be lying if I said there aren't still difficult times"). Much of the dialogue obviously was reconstructed or re-imagined, and there are internal indications that some of the events themselves may to some extent have been fabricated. I see that several other reviews or the comments to them claim that some of the incidents in the book are either exaggerated or happened to someone else. Still, I tend to believe that on the whole HOME BEFORE MORNING is a realistic portrayal of a surgical nurse in a field hospital in Vietnam, and as such it is worth reading.
Everyone needs to understand what war is and how the fight to survive such an experience is never really over.
I was a 1LT MAT team commander in Pleiku Province, almost exactly in the same time frame as Lynda. I lived and operated with the RF and PF forces, mostly Montagnards. I probably had time to get out of 'the field' only six to eight times, and would look Lynda up to visit by the pool, always leaving before dusk to return to my military location, whether it be my home compound of Le Trung or in a Montagnard village somewhere. She was a bright light in that year, and I always looked forward to seeing her, we seemed to have a lot in common. Though I knew the medical staff saw horrific things, I never knew what she was going through or what it later did to her. We had discussed getting together when we returned home, but I was hurt near the end of my tour and soon sent home, and her unit was moved somewhere to the coast, but as I was in the field, I never found out where. I wonder if our lives would have been drastically different if we had. She was a beautiful nurse, and I found her book educational to say the least, and of course, depressing, which should come as no surprise when you know what these fine people had to deal with. Thank you, Lynda. You are in my new book, PAWNS OF PLEIKU. May you rest in peace.
A must read for any Infantry veteran who served in Vietnam. These nurses went through "hell" on a daily basis. The Infantry soldier had his own hell, but these nurses had it "daily." Super great book.
I had owned this book previously and loaned it out, never to be seen again. Glad to repurchase and read again.
Well written, touching, helpful to understanding what happens and how it effects the military personnel of that day.
I loved this book. I cried and felt a lot of the pain that was expressed in its pages. I became a nurse because of the Vietnam war. I was too young to go and be a part of it. After reading this history of Lynda's time there I don't think I would have survived the trauma of seeing our soldiers being torn a part as was told in this compellingly story. I pray that with time and a changing of the hearts and minds of the American people the Vietnam veterans feel the love and support they deserved back then. I know because we didn't want the same thing to happen for desert Storm Etc, A lot of my friends made a special trip to yellow ribbon corner here at Ft. Hood Tx. We were determined to show the troops returning all the support the Vietnam veterans didn't get. So I would say we did learn to support our troops no matter how we felt about the conflict.
Great book the best in his genre. A must read
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Home before morning
Halfway through, fantastic so far. What the doctors and nurses had to go through was unbelievable. I goes to show war changes people and these people were changed forever, constantly surrounded by death and destruction for what cause?
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I was mesmerized by this book when it first came out and read it overnight. As an emergency room nurse in a treacherous location for horrific accidents, I found myself identifying with her absorbing decriptions what she dealt with and tried to survive. It is one of a handful of books that have reread and now that kindle has published it I can read it again without disturbing my hardcopy. It's about a nurse facing the Vietnam war and you need to read it.
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