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Elizabeth M. Norman

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Elizabeth M. Norman, R.N., Ph.D., is a professor at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She is the author of Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam, and co-author with Michael Norman of Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath, which made The New York Times list of top ten nonfiction books in 2009 and was named a 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist. Her awards include an official commendation for Military Nursing Research from the U.S. Department of the Army. She and her co-author are working on a no-fiction book about Bellevue Hospital Center in New York to be published by Henry Holt/ Macmillan.

Veteran's Day

WOMEN IN UNIFORM
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Elizabeth M. Norman

Air Force Brigadier General Wilma L. Vaught, retired now, 83 years old and the head of Women in Military Service for America Foundation Memorial, spent twenty-eight years in uniform and became one of the most decorated women in military service. When she joined the military, it was a rigid hierarchy dominated and ruled by men.
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“IN OBVIOUS WAYS the work of war is easy, “kill or be killed.” Survival, however, is another matter, much more difficult, for it requires an endurance, a cunning and a strength of will that fighting does not.”
Elizabeth M. Norman, We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese

“Teaching and office work held little appeal—the former meant taking care of someone else’s children, the latter someone else’s man—so they entered the only other profession open to them, nursing. After”
Elizabeth M. Norman, We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese

“On Thursday, March 26, as the assault continued and as his troops wasted away, General MacArthur, safely in Australia, received the Congressional Medal of Honor from the U.S. minister there. General Wainwright, learning of the news, radioed his congratulations from Corregidor, even as the bombs were falling on top of him. He also reported on the desperate state of his supplies.”
Elizabeth M. Norman, We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese

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