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US Army Nurse Laura Hines Kern: “My most pivotal moment in Vietnam as a nurse was my first day. I just jumped off the helicopter and walked into the medical facility with my bags, looking for my supervisor. The chief nurse and one of the doctors quickly approached me and ordered me into the operating room.
"I had taken one step into the operating room, and they wheeled a soldier by me who was missing both of his legs; they were blown off. When you see the people before they’ve had surgery, it’s not a clean thing that you’re looking at. It’s a real mess. And I think one of his arms was also blown off.
"They had probably six IVs going into this guy and all hanging blood, and they had extra blood down below the stretcher on the gurney. At that moment, all of my senses were assaulted. There was the metallic smell of blood, the smell of burned flesh mixed with the smell of explosives that wafted in the air. I couldn’t take my eyes off those ragged and raw bloody stumps where his legs used to be. I don’t remember seeing even his face …"
- US Army Nurse Laura Kern