Sarah Blum's Nurse Vietnam Veteran Story on Veterans Day 2013

[@drkskyes]

This should have 10 million likes!

[@almontepaolilli4909]

God bless you for your service and your courage.

[@alanwilson4412]

I admire all you nurses for the service God Bless you all🇺🇸🇬🇧

[@sarahblum7033]

Thank you Alan, your support is appreciated.

[@alanwilson4412]

@@sarahblum7033 Nurses provide the backbone of the service in conflict. Coming from the UK people have forgotten the Vietnam War such a waste of life. Visited the memorial wall in a

[@alanwilson4412]

Visited memorial wall in Washington in 1986 very moving Take care🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@jerometuck1708]

I love you ladies , thank god you were there for all of wounded men , i dont think i would be here today if not your care . These ladies were devoted , and very caring . THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH for your service , god bless you all.

[@dalekundtz4603]

Thank you for your service and for all that the nurses did for us. You have no idea what it meant to us. I laughed at your stories, especially the shower. Mine happened when I got back to the world. It was on a Tuesday Morning and my mom had not told me about the storm siren tests. I am in the shower when the siren sounded. I cut the water and ran out the door into the backyard in only my birthday suit. Our neighbors wife was in her backyard and got an eye full of this 19 yo boy. I just stood there confused and she was kind enough to toss me a towel as she was hanging her laundry. Again, thank you for all you and the other nurses did for us.

[@niamhneevekinsella7951]

Thank you Sarah for your service, where would all the wounded be without you? And for comforting that young nurse who was obviously scared to death. Best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@sarahblum7033]

Thank you Niamh.

[@niamhneevekinsella7951]

Sarah Blum you are so welcome ❤️

[@rooftopcat1785]

RESPECT, HONOR, ADMIRATION, TO ALL THESE WOMAN WHO SERVED OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN VIET NAM, TO PRESENT. WELCOME BACK LADIES. AIRBORNE .ALL THE WAY..

[@elainecragel4647]

Sarah, and to all the nurses who served, thank you for your courage, compassion, and strength for your your sacrifice and service to our country. God Bless.

[@steveburke3923]

I am watching, laughing, crying, and more ..... watching a wonderful woman nurse literally taking me back to Feb. 8th, 1968 when I got on that 707 headed for "The World." Your stories were the best! You had me in the palm of your hand when you had to peek over the microphone! Thank-you, a 6'4" veteran from the 146th Aviation Co.

[@davidallen4552]

I can still smell the canvas and see the eyes of the Nurses. You are all Angles

[@williambartell6320]

My sister Barbara Williamson, was a surgical nurse there also. They saw too much death . Bless them for their courage and humanity.

[@michaelstratton6701]

Thank you Sara for helping our boys, God bless you

[@sarahblum7033]

I am now 80 and enjoying seeing so many wonderful responses to my story that still lives within me. I am hoping to get the stories all written in a book.

[@genecobb8856]

God Bless you for your service!🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@trainguy1017]

Would love to read that book when it's done! My oldest cousin was over there with the long range recon patrols during the tet offensive. Thank you for your service and for all the care you gave to so many.

[@sarahblum7033]

@@trainguy1017 The Book: Women Under Fire: Abuse in the Military was completed in 2012 and is available on www.woomenunderfire.net and Amazon. The new one PTSD and Healing is close to being done. Hope to have it out by end of 2021.

[@trainguy1017]

@@sarahblum7033 Will definitely look for them. My oldest cousin was with LRRP in Vietnam and I've been always trying to learn more of what went on during that time.

[@sarahblum7033]

@@trainguy1017 I met a guy at the Vietnam Memorial on the day of the dedication who was a LRRP. Look up the websites about Vietnam, there are many and ask if any of them knew your cousin.

[@priscillacrowell7070]

Thank you for sharing Ms Sarah Blum. Justice must prevail Don't give up the fight.

[@lorettabrail7806]

This is a most amazing woman! God Bless!!! Thank you for you service!

[@ronsbeerreviewstools4361]

I Salute her, this American Hero.

[@KMNavara]

Thank you for your service to our country!

[@drkskyes]

Cried all the way through this.

[@multitieredinvestor183]

Two NAM tours. 65-66, 69-70. Proud of that, but most proud of children and grands. One, a special needs teacher, the other, a newly NCLEX passed nurse. Cu-Chi was our rear area I was forward in Tay Ninh.

[@susiepittman601]

She's great.

[@tjrussomato4323]

amazing americans....been watching so many of these interviews, and the overwhelming theme is one of amazing valor.

[@junecollins1923]

So sorry I missed this. I was at the Tacoma VA hospital that day, handing out books. I am so impressed at how you express your feelings so brilliantly in your writing. I return to Seattle annually so maybe we will yet meet up.

[@jeffcollins9995]

You are the real deal Sarah.

[@larrybelken7568]

God Bless you and all that worked with you!

[@Tetleyb]

Semper Fi. Thank you for all you did.

[@damianscardamaglia7857]

Amazing woman ,Thank you

[@johnleonard8311]

Thank you for your service or our soldiers and country.

[@racerd9669]

Dear god how can we repay the ladies that served in Vietnam, we never really can. I remember my first time going into the bunker also, pitch dark and wondering where the snakes may be in the cool sand bags. Sara you are a true HERO, thank you will never be enough. God Bless you and all the wonderful women that served.

[@jbstonesfan]

G-d bless you and your fellow nurses.

[@glennbrymer4065]

God bless y'all. Army nurses Rock! Thank you ladies.

[@borisyelp5195]

What about navy nurses? They took care of the wounded too me.

[@drkskyes]

Where is this woman...I would love to hug her!!!!!

[@tomthumb4232]

I hope a lot of people gave hugs and thanks to these brave woman. they totally deserve our thanks

[@sarahblum7033]

Wish we could hug especially now in the era of Covid-19.

[@soldtobediers]

''There are none closer to the author of pain & sacrifice Himself... Than Those who perform it for the sake of others.'' -gilpin 31920 Former Paratrooper Sgt. William Gilpin 82nd Abn. Inf. '71---'74

[@sarahblum7033]

Thank you

[@ASoldiersWhisper2424]

Sarah's incredible story appears in www.VietnamAndBeyond.com Thank you for your service Sarah!

[@multitieredinvestor5246]

Arrived in Vietnam 1st tour Dec 1965. Arrived 2d tour Jul 69

[@shaunschipper3900]

Sarah thank you so much for your service and you are quite the articulate story teller. I am wondering if you still play ukulele? I love to play the uke.

[@sarahblum7033]

I actually do not play Use now I mostly play African Balaphone and African Drums. My youngest grand daughter now 16 plays the Ukulele and teaches it.

[@garycarter4297]

God Bless you sweet girl..

[@joebiernacki7346]

There isn't anything Army Nurses didn't see. 1967-68 was the height of the war meaning there was plenty of work for them. These heroic, professional ladies can't be thanked enough for their service, their raw emotions and their love toward their patients.

[@thelugoffgamecock792]

Joe Biernacki Amen Joe!!!

[@sarahblum7033]

Thanks Joe, It is the gift that goes on giving.

[@artistaloca4]

Blessings💖✊👍😎✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌🌻

[@howardfortyfive9676]

Well she's really got a lot of pluck. That and her sense of humor I'm sure helped her deal with her service when she was over there. She's still cute as a button at 73.

[@hesedken]

love u Sarah

[@tomtrostel2116]

91D (OR tech), 45th Surgical Hospital, Nay Ninh, RVN, 69-70

[@sarahblum7033]

Hi Tom, I was able to visit the 45th MUST unit while I was there.

[@multitieredinvestor183]

Next last day I was at battalion HQ in Cu-Chi when BN commander told me to accompany him to Nui Ba Dinh. I told him only if I could take the bunk I was chained to. I went with him and we went in a Loach. Every time before going there was in a two engine CH-47 Chinook.

[@sarahblum7033]

Thank you, I remember going to Nui Ba Dinh.

[@multitieredinvestor183]

@@sarahblum7033 I had soldiers up there. Visited them twice monthly. I was at Tay Ninh second tour 69-70. Youngest granddaughter just graduated #1 ABSN course of 11 months 8 days Uni of Houston. Wrote NCLEX - 75 questions. Will begin work Monday Houston Methodist.

[@borisyelp5195]

It's about time they give these women their due.

[@woodscw50]

Marine father our Nurses a marine in county our hills 1968

[@chrismoll6862]

Most Heroic

[@thorpestanford5359]

A fine lady

[@bobjackson4720]

Impressive lady

[@sarahblum7033]

Thank you Bob.

[@jamesolson807]

My older sister was a secretary/typist at the Pentagon during the Vietnam War. Of course, she was young, beautiful, and naive at 19. All the young soldiers who worked in her division wanted to take her on a date and she repelled their advances until this one young soldier came along and swept her off her feet. She worked there for two years, thinking she was adapted to her environment and having matured a bit after having been out of high school for two years, she went on a date with the guy. She didn't drink alcohol and he did. He drank to the point of becoming obnoxious and that is when she told him he needed to go home. He took her to her apartment, forced his way in, and raped her. She was deathly afraid for my father to find out and never told any member of the family what had happened to her. She just told me about the rape a few days ago. She is 76 years old and it was so painful to hear what had happened to her. I, too, experienced sexual abuse while I was a patient in a psychiatric hospital where I was being treated for heroin addiction. I was heavily medicated and sexually abused for weeks and weeks by an orderly on the night shift. I wrote a book about my life a few years back and detailed the assaults in my book. My sister was my editor and when she read about my experience, her's came rushing back. It so upset her that she went into counseling about it. All of her life she has been the kindest, most generous, and most caring human being I have ever known. How she came out as outstanding of a person as she is after what she was put through is nothing shy of a testimonial to how strong the human spirit is.

[@Cab520]

The date rape was very common. The young women would be literally kicked out in shame. It was common they did not know where to go and would not go home because of the shame and stigma. Some actually married rapist and would be raped over and over until they got courage to leave some just disappeared. Some committed suicide. Some like this one never spoke of it. Back then young girls were innocent and naive as to the way the world was. Knew nothing. Then the men would refer to you in derogatory terms because you would not go out and stayed clear and only in safe places.

[@beveryveryquietiamhuntingr7009]

Rockin the white hair. Thanks for being real.

[@BeachsideHank]

I'm a Vietnam vet myself, and I just don't get it. Even to this day, in comment sections there exist a Neanderthal mentality amongst males that are totally dismissive of the capabilities and contributions that a woman can make in military service. Perhaps it is ignorance of history- recent history, such as the effectiveness of the female sniper of Russia, or the female combat pilot Lilya Litvyak, who became the world’s first female fighter ace, and is better known as the White Rose of Stalingrad. It took a grouped flight of German fighters to bring her down and end her life. Or what of "The Night Witches", again Russian female pilots flying obsolete biplanes in night raids against German forces, so effective were they that any gunner or pilot who shot one down would automatically be awarded the Knights Cross decoration- these women even flew without parachutes, trading the weight saved for one extra bomb. Maybe it was being 1 of 3 siblings raised by a single working mother that gave me a different perspective on just what a determined female can accomplish that fills me with rage when I read some of the most asinine remarks my fellow males make, but sadly yes, sexism is alive and rampant now in the military like never before, I lay the blame where it belongs: those at the top of the command that make the same policy mistakes over and over and over again: When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn? -Where Have All The Flowers Gone? The Kingston Trio · 1958

[@niamhneevekinsella7951]

BeachsideHank well said. After reading your comment I looked up The white rose of Stalingrad and found a book of her story on Amazon. Thank you and well done to your Mother for raising a child on her own. Well done to you also for your time in Vietnam and I hope you have a happy life now. Greetings and best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@sarahblum7033]

Hi BeachsideHank, Thank you for your comments especially about the negative males and the words to the song I often sing. "When will they ever learn."

[@BeachsideHank]

@@sarahblum7033 It is you who deserves the thanks from a generation whose peer group would have been fewer still but for your tenacity and skills in saving lives when it mattered most; you and your sisters in care are the ultimate heroes we admire, thank you always.

[@multitieredinvestor5246]

I was stationed in Tay Ninh, but my battalion was in Cu Chi. Last day of 2d tour I was at Bn Hq waiting to board freedom bird when battalion commander grabs me puts me on a loach and we go to Nui Ba Din mountain. Last place I wanted to go was on a single engine helicopter. For the past year all trips to the mountain had to be in a twin engine CH-47. My last day in Nam the Army changed the rules letting single engine choppers fly there.

[@almcallister6490]

I flew chinooks up there about once or twice a week...one of the most challenging places we went. We carried all the supplies and personnel there. I was there 68/69... and was there last year the mountain is a park now.

[@Hootyhoo-jq9vq]

Anyone got any Dramamine?

[@FoolishPrankster]

God Bless the Women in White (period)

[@ron5935]

wonderful story and nurse. Camera TERRIBLE. Worst on U Tube.

[@TheSeanocasey]

It was all good until the end. No commercials please. Stick to the topic. No place for hawking for the women in the military. Wrong place wrong time.

[@sarahblum7033]

I hear you. It was the first time I wrote a book and wanted to share the information. Perhaps wrong place wrong time and I had no other place to do it.

[@TheSeanocasey]

@@sarahblum7033 I'm a wounded Vietnam veteran 1968-1969 and maybe a little too sensitive. We didn't have female Nurses, Donut Dollies or USO entertainment where we were. And so I am always interested in hearing the nurses stories and the stories from the Donut Dollies. So I was a bit taken back by you ending. I get it though and I apologize. BTW I had the pleasure of meeting several female Vietnam veterans last 4th of July. They served as Nurses and Donut Dollie. I salute you.

[@williamlawson8511]

The Tunnels of Cu Ch

[@Djarvis2]

She lost me at the end when she played the victim card.

[@williamrooks3979]

It happens. Happens to men too especially since Obama. It's wrong and a stain on the honor of our services. Give her a break.