Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox
February 15, 2015
GUEST: Sarah Blum
TOPIC: Military Sexual Trauma
ABOUT SARAH:
Sarah L. Blum, ARNP is a decorated nurse Vietnam veteran who earned the
Army Commendation Medal serving as an operating room nurse at the 12th
Evacuation Hospital Cu Chi, Vietnam during the height of the fighting in
1967. Because Cu Chi sat on the edge of the Hobo Woods, where all the
fighting took place in 1967, her hospital handled mass casualties
regularly and their operating room became the largest user of fresh
blood in all of Vietnam
Back in the United States, Sarah received her brother soldiers of
Vietnam with their wounds and amputations, cared for them directly and
saw how their physical wounds did not heal when their heads and hearts
were deeply affected. She was awarded the Certificate of Achievement for
exemplary service as head nurse of the orthopedic ward at Madigan Army
Hospital in 1968, where she was also the assistant director of nursing
on evening and night shift in 1970.
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