This soldier has has PTSD and wants to bring closure for himself by locating this special nurse who gave him the will to live.

Any assistance in locating this nurse, or pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

When we got there in Dec. 1971, every building in the area was totally deserted. Totally intact, but no Americans within 100 miles, except a hand full of us American Advisors. All hell broke lose on March 30, 1972, when the NVA surprised us, and the World, by coming across the DMZ only 2-3 miles away. We held out for 2 days, and got orders to escape and evade to the coast...but thank God the choppers came at the last minute and saved us.

For the few months we were there, we enjoyed everything you left behind. We surrounded the small compound with wire/bunkers/watch towers, etc...and sweated blood everything night waiting for an attack. When we found out the choppers were coming to take us out, Col. Metcalf gave the order to destroy everything we could. We had been under constant artillery fire for two days and took several hits, so there was not much to destroy. We mainly use thermite gernades to burn everything down. We put sand in the tanks of the generators and turned them on high and ran like hell.

I remember using my M16 to shoot up the Officer/EM combined Club....bottles were flying every where. The mess hall had taken a direct hit and food was every where.I just remember the syrup...it was everywhere and we where cleaning our boots off when the choppers came in. What a heck of way to leave your beautiful hospital.

We lost two advisors, one came in by chopper from Camp Evans. We placed him in the operating room...but we did not have any medics and he died from his wounds. Two weeks later, I went with a small team and walk thru the compound to check things out and look for any bodies of Americans. The entire place had been sacked by the NVA Army looking for loot. To make sure they got nothing of value, our higher headquarters had a B52 bombing raid over the entire base a week later.

I have belonged to a Vietnam Veterans Group (Called Freedom Birds) here in Id.Falls since 1984, I am a past President of the group. Even though this group was made up of all ex- military men, they asked me to join because of my affliation with Vietnam and the soldiers.

We just published a 300+ page book honoring the Idaho's 45,000 Vietnam Veterans who served and the state 251 causalities.

We have been told by our U.S. State Sentor that our book is the nation's first comprehensive, statewide account of the veterans'stories from Vietnam. I worked on this book since 1990 and am honored to have been able to pay tribute to these brave men. Name of this book is "Reasons to Remember".