A True American Woman. Feminine, Gracefull, High Morals, Loving CareGiver, Patriotic with a Steel BackBone.

I know I'm late to the party, But as a 67 thru 71 Vietnam Combat vet, this lady brought tears to my eyes. Bless this lady and all the angles like her. Thank You...

This is one hell of a lady! True respect for her. Give her the due she deserves.

No bronze/silver star for her excellent work during her tour other then a commendation medal, sad to see these women have not been awarded more for their excellent service.

This Captain is a force of nature and living history of our great country. Thank you for your service!

One of the best Vietnam interviews I’ve seen. She is a very articulate woman. Thank you for your service!

Joe Galloway, highlighting a strong, intelligent, articulate, brave woman, with shoulders 12 ft. across and a iron spine. You are such an inspiration to people who appreciate your dedication to life, our troops, and your profession. God bless you, Al, Joe, our troopers, and all of the women who served our proud nation. Mr. and Mrs. Tibbs, Fitchburg Massachusetts.

I was inspired by the Vietnam nurses growing up in the sixties so much so I became a nurse, I recently retired 35 years of service thank you for your dedicated service.

So good to see Donna again after all these years. She and my wife served at the 3rd Field Hospital in 1969. I was at Ft Bragg at the time and after her tour in Vietnam, my wife joined me. Who do we discover at Ft Bragg but Donna and her husband, Al. We all hung out together until I went to Vietnam, and my wife, Pat, elected to join me for her second tour.

May we always have good people like you to look over our men and women , god bless you all .

Donna, I wish I could have been at the airport when you came home from Vietnam. I would have welcomed you and thanked you for everything you did for “the boys.”

As an RN, daughter of a WW2 B17 pilot and later career B52 pilot and mother of a son who served as a combat medic who received the Bronze Star for Valor, I have immense respect for our military. Thank you for your service and sacrifice. God bless you and your husband.

Thank you to CPT Rowe and all the nurses, doctors and medical enlisted who served in RVN. I was an OR tech at 45th Surg, Tay Ninh, June 69 - June 70. Retired after 23 years in the Army as an E8.

Donna was a friend of mine in Cobb County GA. She is an amazing patriot. She's also a damn good real estate agent.

I'm the proud daughter of a Marine, and I'm a registered nurse. Ma'am, I would proudly serve in your ER any day! It is, after all, a nursing tradition as Florence Nightingale was a war nurse. You know the saying, God couldn't be everywhere, so he created nurses.

My father-in-law was an Army helicopter door gunner in a white helmet who still tells us in reverent tones about the angel on his Christmas tree being the black nurse who saved him. He never tells "stories" just how grateful and fortunate he was to be a universal donor. God bless America's warriors.

Thank you for your service. Also, thank God for the nurses, medics and doctors who did so much for those of us who needed you. Thank you also for all you have done since returning to the World.

I just love it when she mentioned about the strangely “quietness” of no VC activities when the South Korean or Australian marines were in her area of operation!

That was the best interview I have seen on KZfaq ever!!!!! As a Vietnam Vet it gave me an idea of what the nurses went thru in Vietnam. I spent two weeks shy of two years in Nam and was lucky to not ever been injured there and even though I was based next to a Marine hospital never once saw any of the nurses but I am sure they worked very hard. Thanks for all the hard work you are doing for us vets your truly an angel.

Joe Galloway is an excellent interviewer and this lady is awesome!!

Thank you for your service Ma'am, and for your husband's. I very much enjoyed this interview.

I went through 3rd. field hosp. at the time she was there don't remember things there wounded and not completely sharp before I was sent to Okinawa, Japan, Walter Reed, Valley Forge, Then home to Ohio and reasigned to push troops as a DI. at Fort Knox Basic training. I owe my life to those Nurses at 3rd. field Hosp. Now with AO. parkinsons I am glad I lived to see the nurses get their just dues and respect 199th Light Infantry Brigade ( Old Guard ) Thank you Mam .----- Joe Richmond Nam 68-69

Thank You Donna for your service! I was only 8 when you went to Vietnam, but I remember it vividly. My uncle Dan Sullivan was there in 64-65 and was severely injured. He lived but in a wheelchair and PTSD. It still brings tears to my eyes when I saw all of the people here in the US. I was and still am very proud of all of you and proud to be an american. Thank You again and sending blessings. PBader NJ

God Bless You And Your Husband & Family Abundantly Will Remember You In Prayers Till I Die Amen

You are such a gift to our country!

I served in Vietnam with the army in 1969 at age 20, and I'm also from Massachusetts, born and bred. I was severely wounded in December of '69 and spent 8 months in army hospitals. I would like to take this moment to thank you and all the other nurses who served our country proudly in Vietnam. If not for their great care I probably wouldn't be here now at age 74 typing this. THANK YOU!

Such a fantastic woman. Thank you for your service and your husband. Both of you have given of yourselves. God Bless!

THIS Captain should be awarded THE MEDAL OF HONOR !!

As a Vietnam era vet who lost a brother to that "crazy Asian war," it has been an unexpectedlly healing experience to watch this video, and listen to feelings and emotions that I've privately held within myself, forcefully articulated out loud! Suddenly, I find that I'm not alone, and that so much of what I truly believe is valid! My most orofound thanks to all concerned with this production, especially Donna and her husband! May God bless you both! AMEN!🙏🏻🇺🇸✝️

Donna thank you so much I loved listening about your experiences as an US Army nurse. It's people like you and your husband that make America great. My mother was also Army nurse and served during WW2 and was assigned to the 93rd Medical Evacuation Hospital. It was a triage hospital and the most forward hospital on the battle field. They were the first to receive the wounded before sending them off to the General Hospital in the rear area. My mother was a 1st Lieutenant and I remember the stories she would share of her experiences while she served in the 93rd Med Evac. Your story reminds me of the times my mom would talk to us about her experiences. Thank you again.

I had the honor of meeting CPT Rowe when she came and talked to my high school Vietnam War/World War II class at Newnan High School. She is an awesome human being. She told our class the Kathleen Story, and I will always remember the experience. I’m glad I was able to look her in the eye, shake her hand, and say thank you. What an incredible woman!

The story’s from the nurses who went to Vietnam are so incredible. I’m sorry you didn’t get the homecoming you all deserved.

That was an amazing interview! Always fascinating to hear the stories of what went on during that time. It is truly sickening how they were treated when they returned home.

Thank God for you and all the nurses that gave so much for the men.

I worked with Donna Rowe back in 2001, we were realtors with Coldwell Banker, she is a very nice person

What a treasure this woman is to our nation.

Thank you for doing this interview, it was truly amazing. I will watch multiple times. AGAIN, AMAZING!!!

Folks, you want an example for young women to emulate during this Women's Month...look no further than this powerhouse...Captain Donna Rowe...makes one proud to be an American!

It's because of you l was inspired 36years ago to be a nurse, l thank you for the blessings you gave, and you are be blessed my friend, lm now retired and living in the Ozarks ❤

Nurses are Awesome.......Gods Angels !!......Thank You from the bottom of my heart !!

You are an amazing woman! Thankful for your service! I also trained in a Sister of Mercy school, though a bachelor program. An excellent program!

God bless you Donna. My brother suffered from ptsd all his life , we didn’t know. He found out 6 month before his death from bladder cancer from agent orange

I’m an Aussie. Thank you for your service, ma’am. This is a great interview. Thanks also to Mr Galloway. I know who you are.

Donna Thanks for all you did for those brave young men. And for telling your story.

Thank you for your service , former Vietnam Vet

A spirited, together, articulate woman. Thank you for your service.

Thank ALL of the nurses and surgeons who busted ass trying to save us. I was an 11-B infantrymen with the 2/502st infantry, 101st Airborne Division (ambl) Camp Eagle M.R. 1, near the border with North Vietnam and khesan (?) I did two tours back to back because to be honest with you I had nowhere to go once I came back to the states , I lived where I worked when I got drafted and after I was drafted the little gas station closed . My parents were both severe alcoholics so that was out of the question . I went in when I was 19, and I was told I would be released after two years active duty. We had a lot of contact in our region plus we had lam son 719 , I was attached to the 48th assault helicopter company, The “Blue Stars” and we worked out of Dong Ha. Most of the time in Vietnam I was in the bush but when lam son 719 came I got a break And rode in a slick as a door gunner. We had a hell of a time with the South Vietnamese trying to take on the hardened NVA we had to go up on the Laotian border and do medevacs and body grabs to take back to the ARVN field hospital at Dong Ha , that’s been 50 years ago and I can still smell the dead bodies of our guys and the ARVN’S that we loaded into our ship and headed back to dong Ha . The American KIA were picked up at the Arvin hospital by some other company and they were taken to I believe the fifty-eight hospital where they have a KIA reception point. The blue ⭐️ stars caught hell! Some of our guys went up into Cambodia although I don’t think they were supposed to talk about it because the ARVN’S had pushed up into Cambodia and had their asses handed to them at that point. For the first time in my life I saw a blue and silver UH one giving refueled at the temporary refueling pad at dong Ha, A lot of ships had all kinds of stuff written on cartoons whatever but this one was solid silver and blue and I thought this is really unusual that they would do this. Someone told me that is Air America the CIA. I was too young and stupid to even have any idea what the CIA was but I remember they came into a slot next to us and I got out to refuel and somebody was bringing ice chest full of water and cleaning all of the blood from the deck of that ship! After all that was over and I went back to Camp Eagle to resume pounding the ground over and over and over. We were going up to a fire based on a chinook we loaded from Camp Eagle and the Chinook caught fire just as he was leaving the ground I don’t know if you realize but we could see it from the back engine and we were yelling at the crew chief who had a radio communication with the pilot. I looked out the window and I saw that we had cleared the perimeter and that’s when we went down and we went down hard because it knocked my memory out that’s all I remember until I woke up in camp zuma, Japan 🇯🇵. I had second and third-degree burns over 40% of my body. A lot of the really bad burns I could not feel but the other ones around my ass and private area was unbearable and they kept putting me in the tank a water like a whirlpool and the reason they did that is to get the remnants of my clothes and whatever was embedded in my flesh to break loose. Whoever is reading this please take my advice don’t screw around with anything you can get burned with. Don’t use gasoline for anything except putting it in your car. The same thing with lighting a barbecue out side! Sometimes people leave their gas on or they turn the gas on first and it explodes and burn to their face I met so many people that that’s happened to . I had some really nice nurses in Japan and they let me call them by their first name even though they were commissioned officer and I always feel strange about doing that but I built up a rapport with them because so often I was ready to fight or do something crazy due to the pain and they wouldn’t give me enough pain medicine ever! But the nurses would come and rub this silver nitrate all over me. I got medical evacuation in A C-141 flying hospital, The sweetest nurses who ld ever want to meet! and they were always right there near me even though I was unable to sleep they were always checking on me and talking to me and I really have-had nothing to say, because I had nowhere to go no one to go to I’ve never felt sorry about it it’s just the way my life was back then , I more than made up for it by being married for 33 years and having three kids. I ended up at the same hospital where I was born brooks Army Medical Center in San Antonio. My father was a career Air Force officer and we were living in San Antonio because he was stationed at the Air Force Base there when Korea broke out. The day my mother gave birth to me there my father was in Korea. I had several surgeries and everywhere that wasn’t burned they took off and transferred it .

Hello again Donna…..you triaged me at the 3rd Field after our Dustoff went down prior to Villa 5….we had flown to Dong Tam to pick up a wounded scout dog…. I hope you’re doing well

Miss Donna You are a Great Officer and Nurse!!! God Bless You and Your Husband for Your Work in Vietnam!!!

My brother was 101st Airborn Vietnam veteran severely wounded by friendly fire they said but the Army wouldn’t tell us where he was when wounded. After leaving a field hospital in Vietnam he was flown to Japan then after many weeks there to the Georgia and after a few weeks there off they sent his to Fort Ord, Ca to finish out his time. US Army 1964-1968 still has nightmares, PTSD, and many many health problems caused by agent orange. 100% disabled

My friend LTC. Diane Corcoran was a nurse in Vietnam. She just passed away on March 5th 2023. God bless her and all the nurses. As a disabled veteran, I appreciate them to no end. This is a most amazing interview! Real history. 1st person accounts. USArmy 69/71

The only time I ever ended up in an Evac Hospital was for a minor malady. It was comforting to we soldiers to know that we would receive great care if we ever needed it. May God bless you!

Best interview ever with a Vietnam Vet! Thank you so much for this living part of history.

What a wonderful woman. Thank you for your service and I would be grateful if you were ever my nurse. God Bless you.

Wow!! What a lady!!

An amazing and strong lady.

The Sisters of Mercy would be proud, as should you be. Thank You for your skilled and dedicated service. Inspiring interview, such a rich history to be preserved.

Donna , thank you for your service & for all you did & do . The lives you saved & helped save the aid & comfort you gave to our G.I 's will never be forgotten . Another very special lady . ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Thank You for Your Service, Army Vet Donna Rowe and Your Husband !

Bless you Lady and THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND COMPASSION!

I am not a Vietnam veteran I was to young but we watched it on tv every night you lady's truly were the angels of your generation thank you for your service God bless you 🙏

Can’t in words thank this woman enough . She is an absolute treasure and a American hero 🙌🏼🙏🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸

Outstanding interview and interaction.

What a wonderful women. She served her country. Dedicated to treating our troops. A nurse for all time. 🤜🤜🤜🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷

Salt of the earth patriot veteran right there............ She is Golden!

This woman is beautiful. I became an LPN back in the early 70’s and wanted to go to Viet Nam, unfortunately didn’t as I wasn’t an RN (yet) and things were beginning to change and the government was beginning to draw back personal going over. As a nurse in the states I gravitated to critical care. I got to do things back then that only RN’s do now. I loved that time in my career. I so admire those that went. I had teachers in my RN program that were X military nurses. They were THE BEST!. Thank you for your service I LOVE that she still remembers names of individuals she worked with.

As a nurse, this makes me so proud!! I have ZERO idea of what these nurses went through, as I’ve never served and graduated in 2006, but I’ve known quite a few ex-military (mostly ARMY/Air Force) nurses who had served overseas and let me tell you, when I was a new ICU/trauma nurse after only been on the floor for about a year, they were the BEST! I would be freaking out (professionally, but freaking out big time inside😂) and they were always so calm! Nothing rattled them and they were great at educating and improvising. I’ve always been so lucky with all the machinery and other luxuries that stateside hospital nurses have seemingly always had in my lifetime, but hearing some of their stories over the years were so amazing. I truly love these stories and appreciate them so much! 🥹🇺🇸🫡

This video brought me back to my childhood and how much I respected the Vietnam Veterans. I went on to serve because of these brave American men and women. TY.

I’m British but I so enjoyed listen to this eloquent Lady talk about nam.

I say this with the unmost of respect, "Mrs. Rowe, you"re an absolute BADASS Ma'am! Thank you for your service during and after the war."

Thank You and your nurses, medics and doctors for all the lives you saved. USAF, Saigon, 1969/1970

Thank you such for your story and your service 💗 there isn't much on nursing through history or in the wars. I could listen to you all day.

The Viet Nam vets have fought hard and long for many of the programs and services those of us who have followed them in service. This generation sacrificed and served more than most of our nation will ever know. Thank you all and welcome home.

A most remarkable interview from one AMAZNG veteran! Thank you and your husband for service USA.This veteran salutes both of you .

My Army Nurse ancestors were a tough bunch. It is a wonderful legacy to have and to strive to live up to.

Welcome Home Nurse Rowe ❤

Welcome Home Donna Rowe

This lady is absolutely beautiful! Bless her!❤️

This is one of the wisest woman I have seen yet, Next to mom. ❤❤

What an eloquent patriot to explain the harsh realities of the Vietnam War, including the return to the "world." May you be greatly rewarded for your contributions and compassion for others, and for representing your generation so well!

Hello Donna. Our paths never crossed. I spent my tour in Pleiku in 1971-72 repairing radios in a repurposed ward of the 71st Evac. I was never in direct combat and never had a scratch that was worthy of a Purple Heart. I came home with no scars either physical or mental. I am not a hero but have been embarrassed when improperly called one by someone who mistakenly thought I deserved it simply because I spent 11 months in country. I never joined any sort of veteran support group since I was spared the horrors that you and your men experienced. I am writing you in recognition that you not only saved your men but you indirectly served me and thousands like me who were the support troops. You took care of the men who took care of us. Thank you and God bless you. SP5 Schmidt (BTW, Georgia and I share this account.)

God bless you🙏🏼. I can only imagine the horrors of your service. Thank you for being their to help our boys.

Just damn. Brave warrior.

Thank you so much for your care. I hope it wasn't too difficult to deal with internally.

Awesome sacrifice! Awesome lady!

A great American!!!!!!!

Love this. Welcome Home. Thank you doesn't say enough. I was stationed at NAS South Weymouth, MA when I was in the Navy and originally from Macon, GA. So honored to hear your story. I have seen the wall and women's memorial. An awesome peaceful area.

Best interview from a nurse did serve on Vietnam. Good bless you.

A wonderful lady. The guys who unfortunately ended in triage were in good hands. I’m a Brit but would still like to say thanks for your service - and to you too Joe.

Donna was our real estate broker when were transferred to Georgia in 1988. Very professional and very patient. We were fortunate to have her help us.

Wow what a Lady! Thank you for your service! Robert Delaney ATN2 VA155 1970-1971

Great interview. Worked across the street from 3rd Field Hosp.

A very delightful & well articulated, recollection of how it was.....back then.... I was there.... 68 Thank you for your service...

Wow She was destined to be a Nurse, A beautiful story.

I served two Vietnam tours, but am most proud of children and both granddaughters: one, a special needs teacher, the other, a new BSN RN! 1st tour I was a patient at 3d Field Hospital. While there, General Westmoreland came into our ward. That was 1966. My wife never wrote me about the protests in our country. After first tour, I was called a baby killer and I recall who called me that! I was talking to a couple Australian captains. I called the Diggers. One captain told me “enlisted men are diggers, not officers! I thought I had insulted then so I asked what Aussie officers were. Not hesitating a second, he said, “we’re a bunch of bloody basthaids”. I remained on active duty and also was living with other Army people.

This woman has a don't F with me vibe. You can tell she has seen stuff. I'm glad she did what she did and was able to make it back AND stick around without loosing herself.

What a fantastic interview! CPT Donna Rowe is fantastic and delightful lady!

What a wonderful interview. Thank you CPT Rowe and all who serve our country.

u r a solid nurse. and u did real good capt. thank u very much 4 what u r doing. sk1 usn ret. pardy jr.

What a fantastic woman. Love the story at the dinner table with her sister.