For Kristin Hannah, writing a story about nurses who served during the Vietnam War is personal.
Kristin Hannah has taken readers to the depths of the Alaskan wilderness , World War II in France , the Dust Bowl and decades in two women's friendship , among others.
Kristin Hannah's upcoming novel "The Women" focuses on women who volunteered as nurses during the Vietnam War."I have wanted to write about this moment in time because I remember my friends' dads not only going off to war, but how they were treated when they came home, and what a difficult time that was," she says.
For the novel, she interviewed several former Vietnam nurses, as well as a dustoff pilot, who took the wounded from the fields and brought them to the hospital. Hannah says that much of the stories from Vietnam were clouded by the war's political connotations — but that"it's time that people understood what the women were doing."
The loud razzing, the laughter, the horseplay that had marked most of this flight from Honolulu to Saigon was gone. The air seemed heavier, harder to draw into her lungs, harder to expel in an exhalation. The new recruits—recognizable by their still-creased, new green fatigues—were restless. Unsettled. Frankie saw the way they looked at each other, their smiles bright and brittle. The other soldiers, those weary-looking men in their worn fatigues, men like Captain Bronson, sat almost too still.
Captain Bronson put his rough, gnarled hand on hers as she clutched the armrest. “It’ll be okay, Lieutenant.” When she exited the aircraft, heat enveloped her. And the smell. Good Lord, what was it? Jet fuel . . . smoke . . . fish . . . and honestly there was a stench of something like excrement. A headache started to pulse behind her eyes. She made her way down the stairs, where a lone soldier stood in the darkness, backlit by ambient light from a distant building. She could barely make out his face.She could only nod. Sweat crawled down her back.
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