Long Binh Jail was a prison for American soldiers on the outskirts of Saigon with notoriously harsh conditions. In 1968, a group of black inmates were fed up with their treatment and the war.

She was in the crowd when Bob Hope’s USO Christmas show came to Long Binh in 1967. Actor Charlton Heston visited patients there.

In 1970-71, I served as a captain in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps at the 24th Evacuation Hospital at Long Binh, Vietnam. Like Sr. Wilhelm, I was stunned by the tone of the advance piece about Marine ...