The author served as an Army Nurse in Vietnam at the 22nd Surgical Hospital at Phu Bai, the 27th Surgical at Chu Lai, and the 12th Evac at Cu Chi between 1969 and 1970. The 22nd was an inflatable MUST - Mobile Units Self Transporting. The 27th and the 12th were semimobile hopsitals, metal and concrete quonset huts. The author's experiences at the 22nd Surg sound rough; the hospital was small and often filled with casualties. Her experiences at the 27th sound a bit easier, by that time the U.S. military was Vietnamizing the war and most of the casualties were Vietnamese, and the medical staff had time to spend on white sandy beaches near the coast. Commanders insisted on nurses saluting and wearing proper uniforms. The author met her husband, an Army colonel in Vietnam, and the two returned to the U.S. to marry. They did not spend much time discussing the war, says the author, because each knew exactly what the other had gone through and there was no need to diseact shared experiences. Sounds as if neither experienced mental trauma from that time, although the author at least is now resolutley against war as a solution to international problems. The stories, says the author, are fictional, and she uses fictional names. The inspiration for them, however, came from her experiences in Vietnam.