American women died in Vietnam, too
- Written by Barbara Will, Professor of English, Associate Dean of the Arts and Humanities, and Public Voices Fellow, Dartmouth College
There are more than 58,000 names on the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, D.C. Eight of them belong to women.Derek Key, CC BY-SAVisiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., it’s easy to overlook the names of eight women inscribed on the wall’s haunting slabs of black granite.
These eight are hidden figures,...