
Walter Weick
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Walter Weick
@WalterWeick
Vietnam 🇻🇳 Vet..River Rat , USN SUBMARINER SS/ SSN ,SHELLBACK,Retired EM...ABSOLUTELY NO Dms



🙏🇺🇸🙏 Rockets slammed into the hospital while surgeons operated. A young Army nurse refused to leave the wounded behind. Janet Sullivan Bandell arrived in 1968 at the 95th Evacuation Hospital near Da Nang during the Vietnam War. She was a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Nurse Corps. The hospital was a fragile fortress. Tents. Sandbags. Helicopters landing every hour with wounded soldiers. Inside those tents, chaos never stopped. Day and night helicopters brought men torn apart by mines, bullets, and explosions. The operating tables rarely cooled. Bandell moved quickly through the wards. Checking pulses. Stopping bleeding. Holding frightened soldiers steady while surgeons worked. Then came the rocket attacks. Explosions shook the hospital compound. Sirens screamed across the base. Sometimes the staff had to drop to the ground while rockets exploded nearby. But the wounded could not wait. Bandell stayed. She kept working under dim lights and lanterns, helping doctors operate while debris and dust filled the air. One night a young soldier looked up at her after a devastating injury. His voice trembled. "Ma'am... am I going to make it?" Bandell squeezed his shoulder. "We're in this together." The quiet courage of nurses like her saved thousands of lives during the war. Yet history often remembers the battles and the generals. Not the nurses standing beside operating tables while rockets fell outside 🙏🇺🇸🙏





















