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Beth Parks and Colonel Mary Cady, interviewed by Devida Kellogg
No full textBeth Parks and Lieutenant Colonel Mary Cady, interviewed by Devida Kellogg, August 25, 2002. Parks and Cady, on the Veterans Panel, speak of their experiences in the military during the Vietnam War era; reasons for enlisting in the military; society’s reactions to the Vietnam War; propaganda, including “The Green Beret” by Robert Moore and “The Ballad of the Green Beret” by Staff Sergeant Barry Saddler; Beth’s experiences in a MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital); Beth’s participation in constructing an evacuation hospital; MK’s education and participation in the Army at the University of Kansas; the College Army Nurse and WAC Student Officer Programs; MK’s training at Fort McClellan, Alabama, and Fort Ben Harrison, Indiana; MK’s employment at Fort Riley, Kansas, and Fort Devens, Massachusetts; MK’s enlistment in the Army Reserves; MK’s retirement in April of 1990; their experiences as women in the military; sexism in the military; the G.I. Bill; Mr. Branneth, a Canadian Vietnam Veteran; opinions on women in combat; and education at the University of Maine. Text: no transcript. Recording: mfc_na3085_c2129_01 (C 2129). Time: 00:47:08. Photographs: p14552-p14557. Restrictions: None.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf144/1000/thumbnail.jp
Beth Parks, interviewed by Sarah Kneeland, Part 1
No full textBeth Parks, interviewed by Sarah Kneeland, February 16 and 23, 2005, Corea, Maine. Parks talks her experiences in the Vietnam War and how she dealt with it afterwards: reasons for becoming a nurse; training at D.C. General Hospital; volunteering as an officer in the Army Nurse Corps (ANC); Viet Cong tunnels underlying the base camp at Cu Chi; attacks against their camp; operating rooms in the MASH and evacuation hospitals; it was the peak of her career; army vs. civilian nursing; attending the reunion; Annie Cunningham, Glenna Goodacre and Diane Carlson Evans; her film “A Chunk of My Soul”; coping with memories; leaving nursing; the Iraq War and public opinion; James Davis Nelson’s oil painting of the 12th EVAC Hospital operating room. Also included: summary and index of interviews 1 and 2; articles: “A Chunk of My Soul” and “A Vietnam Nurse’s Thanksgiving,” 12th Evac, Cu Chi, RVN; 5 photos. Text: 29 pp. transcript, index, summary, and index, two articles. Time: 00:55:07. Photographs: p14552-p14557. Restrictions: None.
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Beth Parks, interviewed by Sarah Kneeland, Part 2
No full textBeth Parks, interviewed by Sarah Kneeland, February 16 and 23, 2005, Corea, Maine. Parks talks her experiences in the Vietnam War and how she dealt with it afterwards: reasons for becoming a nurse; training at D.C. General Hospital; volunteering as an officer in the Army Nurse Corps (ANC); Viet Cong tunnels underlying the base camp at Cu Chi; attacks against their camp; operating rooms in the MASH and evacuation hospitals; it was the peak of her career; army vs. civilian nursing; attending the reunion; Annie Cunningham, Glenna Goodacre and Diane Carlson Evans; her film “A Chunk of My Soul”; coping with memories; leaving nursing; the Iraq War and public opinion; James Davis Nelson’s oil painting of the 12th EVAC Hospital operating room. Also included: summary and index of interviews 1 and 2; articles: “A Chunk of My Soul” and “A Vietnam Nurse’s Thanksgiving,” 12th Evac, Cu Chi, RVN; 5 photos. Text: 29 pp. transcript, index, summary, and index, two articles. Time: 00:55:07. Photographs: p14552-p14557. Restrictions: None.
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Beth Parks, interviewed by Laura Tucker, Part 1
No full textBeth Parks, interviewed by Laura Tucker on June 11, 1999. Parks speaks about her early life, education, and marriage; becoming an “obligated volunteer” in 1966 for 24-months; the mistake of believing the Army recruiter’s promises; being trained for medical field service at Fort Sam Houston; going to Vietnam early in the war; mistakenly believing her husband was stationed near the DMZ, then learning he was in Thailand; asking to serve a unit near the action; receiving her duty assignment at the Third Field Hospital in Saigon before being moved to the 7th Surgical Hospital (a MASH unit) in the Mekong Delta, and her permanent duty assignment with the 12th Evac.; feeling disoriented in Tan Son Nhut; using a Vietnamese rest room for the first time. She explains a typical day as an operating room nurse with the 7th Surg; operating on canvas litters supported by sawhorses; sometimes working up to 72-hours straight on their feet without food. Parks describes what it was like working in a mass casualty setting and recalls patients she operated on; how a “hooch” was constructed; bartering for bamboo and matting to create privacy curtains between bunks; the male to female ratio and how soldiers who wanted to impress the women allowed the nurses to drive tanks and fly airplanes. She explains the tactics used by the 7th’s chief nurse to secure supplies from other units; going on R&R; discovering the unit’s own supplies were being diverted to the Asian black market; couples using the bunkers at the 12th Evac. to have sex; nurses who were dating doctors finding privacy for sex in an operating room closet; how morale was high at the start of the war when the medical unit lacked military structure and operations were ‘fly by the seat of [your] pants’ and declined as the military-imposed structure and discipline in the form of behavioral and procedural changes. She speaks about working with Vietnamese nationals, not knowing who was with the Viet Cong and who was civilian, and concerns about nationals aligned with the VC creating or using the tunnels and trap doors that ran under the camp to lay booby traps using grenades; poisoning toothpaste, food, or drink; stealing medical supplies; and having a Vietnamese woman steal a ring from the pocket of the fatigues hanging in her hooch. Parks tells of being apolitical at the time of the war and still not understanding the point of the war; believing that Americans were in Vietnam to protect the wealth of capitalists; leadership ensuring the camp was unnaturally clean when dignitaries visited; witnessing Charlton Heston interact with the wounded; going to the open-air market; contracting dysentery; the prevalence of parasites in Vietnamese children who were treated; the handling of bodies and amputated limbs; coming under mortar attack; an adjunct who tripped on the duck board when running for the bunker during an attack receiving a scratch and putting himself in for a Purple Heart; talk of the Tet offensive and wanting out before it happened. She tells of her flight home and the poor treatment received in San Francisco; being turned away from the Top of the Mark and having to find a public bathroom to change out of their uniforms to avoid being shunned and denied service; spending three years in Germany; using her GI Bill to go to college at Wake Forest, then UMaine Orono. Text: 43 pp. transcript. Time: 01:28:40.
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Beth Parks, interviewed by Laura Tucker, Part 2
No full textBeth Parks, interviewed by Laura Tucker on June 11, 1999. Parks speaks about her early life, education, and marriage; becoming an “obligated volunteer” in 1966 for 24-months; the mistake of believing the Army recruiter’s promises; being trained for medical field service at Fort Sam Houston; going to Vietnam early in the war; mistakenly believing her husband was stationed near the DMZ, then learning he was in Thailand; asking to serve a unit near the action; receiving her duty assignment at the Third Field Hospital in Saigon before being moved to the 7th Surgical Hospital (a MASH unit) in the Mekong Delta, and her permanent duty assignment with the 12th Evac.; feeling disoriented in Tan Son Nhut; using a Vietnamese rest room for the first time. She explains a typical day as an operating room nurse with the 7th Surg; operating on canvas litters supported by sawhorses; sometimes working up to 72-hours straight on their feet without food. Parks describes what it was like working in a mass casualty setting and recalls patients she operated on; how a “hooch” was constructed; bartering for bamboo and matting to create privacy curtains between bunks; the male to female ratio and how soldiers who wanted to impress the women allowed the nurses to drive tanks and fly airplanes. She explains the tactics used by the 7th’s chief nurse to secure supplies from other units; going on R&R; discovering the unit’s own supplies were being diverted to the Asian black market; couples using the bunkers at the 12th Evac. to have sex; nurses who were dating doctors finding privacy for sex in an operating room closet; how morale was high at the start of the war when the medical unit lacked military structure and operations were ‘fly by the seat of [your] pants’ and declined as the military-imposed structure and discipline in the form of behavioral and procedural changes. She speaks about working with Vietnamese nationals, not knowing who was with the Viet Cong and who was civilian, and concerns about nationals aligned with the VC creating or using the tunnels and trap doors that ran under the camp to lay booby traps using grenades; poisoning toothpaste, food, or drink; stealing medical supplies; and having a Vietnamese woman steal a ring from the pocket of the fatigues hanging in her hooch. Parks tells of being apolitical at the time of the war and still not understanding the point of the war; believing that Americans were in Vietnam to protect the wealth of capitalists; leadership ensuring the camp was unnaturally clean when dignitaries visited; witnessing Charlton Heston interact with the wounded; going to the open-air market; contracting dysentery; the prevalence of parasites in Vietnamese children who were treated; the handling of bodies and amputated limbs; coming under mortar attack; an adjunct who tripped on the duck board when running for the bunker during an attack receiving a scratch and putting himself in for a Purple Heart; talk of the Tet offensive and wanting out before it happened. She tells of her flight home and the poor treatment received in San Francisco; being turned away from the Top of the Mark and having to find a public bathroom to change out of their uniforms to avoid being shunned and denied service; spending three years in Germany; using her GI Bill to go to college at Wake Forest, then UMaine Orono. Text: 43 pp. transcript. Time: 01:28:40.
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Parks, Beth
No full textBeth Parks - Cooperative Extension Service.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/univ_photos/3364/thumbnail.jp
Vietnam Women\u27s Memorial, Washington, D.C.
No full textColor photograph detailing two figures from the Vietnam Women\u27s Memorial by sculptor Glenna Goodacre. The photograph captures the look of concern and empathy on the face of a nurse cradling the body of a wounded male soldier who eyes are covered with a bandage. A spray of red, white, and yellow roses is laid on the soldier\u27s chest. The Vietnam Women\u27s Memorial was dedicated on Veteran\u27s Day, 1993. The bronze is a tribute to the 265,000 women who served during the Vietnam era. Lettering in the lower right corner reads: La VN Rose. Beth Parks. 2003. Back matter: Beth Parks photo, 2003.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/nafoh_gallery/1293/thumbnail.jp
James Davis Nelson, Sharon (Mrs. James D.) Nelson, and Richard C. Harder
No full textColor photograph of James Davis Nelson, Sharon (Mrs. James D.) Nelson, and Richard C. Harder posing with J.D. Nelson’s original oil painting entitled: 12th Evac, Cu Chi, RVN, 1966-1970. The image was taken by Beth Parks, 2004. The painting depicts the 12th Evacuation Hospital operating room with a wounded Vietnam soldier laying on the operating table surrounded by the surgical team and was commissioned by Richard C. Harder, MSC, then LTC, XO and CO of the 12th Evac. Beth Parks Photo, 2004.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/nafoh_gallery/1291/thumbnail.jp
VIRTUAL CHAPEL: Beth Guckenberger
No full textThis was a virtual chapel service.
Beth Guckenberger, Back2Back Ministries and author from Cincinnati, O
Beth Guckenberger
No full textBeth Guckenberger, Back2Back Ministries and author, Cincinnati, OH, shares stories about God’s provision and solutions for us in times of need
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