Author Kristin Hannah will be present on her new novel “The Women”
From the Hornell Public Library,
Inspired by best-selling author Kristin Hannah’s hit historical novel, The Women, award-winning journalist Nancy E. Lynch presents The REAL Women, Veterans of Vietnam on Oct. 21 at 6 p.m. at the Hornell Public Library.
Lynch’s program is sponsored by the library at 64 Genesee St., Hornell, NY.
She will read selected war letters, all addressed to her, from REAL nurses and a REAL Donut Dolly on the frontlines. All correspondence–nearly 1,000 letters and hundreds of pictures–was published in her award-winning News Journal column, Nancy’s Vietnam Mailbag, from 1968 to 1972 in Wilmington, DE.
Contrary to public perception, about 10,000 REAL military women served in Vietnam. Not all were nurses. Barred from combat, they also worked in communications, intelligence, and administrative jobs.
Hundreds of REAL civilian women also volunteered for duty in Vietnam and served as Donut Dollies with the American Red Cross, and in various positions with the Army Special Services, USO, and as news correspondents.
“Women can be heroes” was a revelation to Hannah’s fictional nurse, Frankie McGrath, but a non-negotiable reality for the REAL women who served, and died, in Vietnam.
Lynch promised in her final News Journal column in December 1972 to publish all the war correspondence she’d received during those five years in a book to honor Vietnam veterans throughout the country.
She fulfilled her mission on Veterans Day 2008 with the release of her acclaimed Vietnam Mailbag, Voices From the War: 1968-1972, an Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal winner, available at $40 after her program.
Since 2009, Lynch, whose maternal grandparents lived on Canandaigua Lake where she always summered, has saluted Vietnam veterans in the Finger Lakes to increase awareness of their service and many sacrifices. She has written seven books, all non-fiction, and lives in Bethel, DE.
The Hornell Public Library is looking for serious applicants to apply for the following positions:
Library Aide- Part-Time Program Assistant
For a full job description, please visit our website at Hornell Public Library – Helping Our Community to Learn and Grow (https://hornellpubliclibrary.org/)
Applications can be found at the library’s front desk. Applications with resumes will be accepted until Friday, October 23rd.
