Thursday March 5, 6:30 -- 8:30 pm:
Women Veterans:
Citizen-Soldiers in Changing Times
Hear women veterans who served in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan discuss their military experiences, and the expanding role of women in U.S. Armed Forces.
Featuring:
Joan Furey, author with Lynda Van Devanter of Visions of War, Dreams of Peace. Served as staff nurse at the 71st Evacuation Hospital in Pleiku from Jan 1969 to Jan 1970; worked at the Department of Veteran's Affairs for 30 years.
Capt. Esther S. Marcella, Commander of Long Island Recruiting Company, U.S. Army and Army Reserves; served in U.S., Kuwait, and Iraq.
Susan O'Neill: author of Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Vietnam. Served in Vietnam an an operating room nurse from 1969--1970.
Moderated by Meg McLean and Daria Sommers, filmmmakers behind the documentary Lioness aired on PBS).
Location: Rotunda Gallery, 33 Clinton Street, (near Tillary and Cadman Plaza West), Brooklyn Heights.
Train: 2,3,4,5,M,R to Court St/Boro Hall; A.C to High St.
Sponsor: Brooklyn Historical Society
Questions? Call 718-222-41111 x 233
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