Events

(Cancelled) The REAL Women: Veterans of Vietnam

PAST EVENT

Saturday, December 14, 2024
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Delaware Military Museum
New Castle County
Program: The REAL Women: Veterans of Vietnam

This program will be rescheduled for 2025.

Inspired by Kristin Hannah’s best seller, The Women, a fictional account of Army nurse Frankie McGrath’s experiences in war-torn Vietnam, journalist Nancy E. Lynch reads and discusses actual correspondence she received from REAL Delaware women in Vietnam.

Delaware military nurses wrote to Ms. Lynch’s award-winning newspaper column, Nancy’s Vietnam Mailbag, a popular read from 1968 to 1972 in The Morning News, then a statewide paper. And a special civilian “Donut Dolly” visited her newspaper office in 1970 to share her experiences.

Ms. Lynch included these women’s letters, among the nearly 900 she received from Delaware troops in Vietnam, in her acclaimed book, Vietnam Mailbag, Voices From the War: 1968-1972. She has since gifted these war letters to Delaware Public Archives for their preservation.

Join Nancy for this lecture program!

Delaware Military Museum
First Regiment Rd
Conference Room
Wilmington DE 19352
302-751-5906

More Events in New Castle County


Sat
10
May
Oh Say Can You See... The Origin of the Star Spangled Banner
Delaware Military Museum
Sat
17
May
The Mason Dixon Line: An Enduring Boundary in American History
White Clay Creek State Park, Chambers House Nature Center
Wed
21
May
Rethinking Our Home Landscapes
Newark Senior Center