Nurse Walsh, I just came across your 1998 VHP interview and I cannot adequately explain the chords it struck with me. I served as an Army combat infantryman from May 1967 to May 1968, I too had the opportunity to do a VHP interview organized by la ocal Congressman at the time named Jim Renacci in June 2018. I found the interview to be very cathartic for me to share what a day in the life was like for a grunt in the jungles of Vietnam. For 50 years no one wanted to hear about it. All your insights and memories of that time were spot on. So let me THANK YOU again for your service to our country. Tom Fatcheric 1BN-8INF-4DIV Bravo Co. 🌹

Connie, May God deeply bless you and keep you safe. I am a Viet Vet myself thru the USAF I do believe deep in my heart Viet Nam Conflict was not wnnable for America. I rarely sit and lesson to a interview about Viet Nam but you held my attenion very well. Again may God Bless you and God Bless America.

May God bless you. I was drafted in 1967 and served in Vietnam. I am now 60% disabled from Agent Orange and it will probably be the reason for my death. I would serve again if needed and actually volunteered for Desert Storm as an Army Reservist. The military was the reason I met my wife of 51 years, paid for my college and taught me my career. God has blessed me and my family. Some do not like the VA but my local office here in Arizona has treated my very well.

Thank you for your service for this great country. Without the nurses, many of us would not be here today.

Thank you for all you have done........We loved our Navy Corpsman.....they saved many Marines lives....We lost almost 1,000 Corpsman in Vietnam.......They were brave young men.....

What an articulate lady. She certainly explained her service well.

Absolute angels these nurses are. A blessing for injured soldiers. God bless her.

What a lovely gracious honest and very becoming lady. A pleasure to listen to. Colin John Aussie.

thanks for taking care of us.,your service is not forgotten. I spent 6 months at Balboa Naval Hospital as a patient on the neuro surgical ward., I wouldn't be here today able to write this without you! Semper Fi.

I love hearing these stories of the Women of the Vietnam War . Thank you for your Service. God Bless you.

Thank you for sharing your story and your life.... Thank you for your service.....

May 1, 2024 I saw your interview online. My time with the FMF was October 1966 to November 1967 and the naval hospital duty (24 months) was at Naval Hospital , Bremerton, Washington. Your interview was an emotional event as I haven’t been on a Navy Hospital ward since 1968; you started memories that are often daily.

This was an exceptional interview that touched my heart and mind. Thank you Connie. THANK YOU!

Very heartfelt - very honest. I appreciate her candor - it's what makes her great and her story so important. During wartime, like any other time, we make decisions, some good - some not so good. She's a beautiful lady with a rich story. This all happened before my time. My dad would never talk about Vietnam. Kudos to Lt. Nippert-Walsh.

A Wonderfull Lady, Thank you for your service

Thank you Connie, I know this was a big part of your life and you told it well and you are so right about so many things. Thank you again for telling your story.

Thanks for the great insight. I knew a boy who was my older sisters age that was a Corpsman. Sadly he was killed in the war in January 1968. He was a role model that I always looked up to. Your story helps me because I think of him quite often of his extreme sacrifice. Thankyou for your story and your loyal service.

Thank you Connie for your honest story. You give an important perspective of those who served during the Vietnam War but did not suffer the wounds, both physical and mental that those who went to fight. You could have avoided service, but like many today feel a patriotic duty to serve. Unfortunately, we place too much trust in our elected leadership to make the right decisions. Your honesty and continuing belief in our country is admirable.

Connie, I just worked out that you are the same age as me. About 77 now 2023. Our returned servicemen from Vietnam had paint and other things thrown on them when parading thru the streets. It was so shameful for these conscripted young men to have to put their lives on the line and suffer this. Colin John.

I was cared for by Navy nurses, corpsman and doctors ( They SAVED my life ) and as an Air Force dependent and then on active duty in the Navy...As a dependent I had surgery at the Chelsea Navy Hospital at the age of 8-years old in 1967. At the time there was a lot of wounded and maimed service personnel in the hospital. The Urology ward and Orthopedic ward were in close proximity. I saw a lot of things that little boys shouldn't have seen, and are still images in my mind. My father was a career USAF officer, and was in Vietnam and was injured. It was a difficult time in my life, but the good memories are of the nurses and corpsman that took care of me...And, also my surgeon LCDR Ragsdale, USNR (MC).

AN EXCELLENT INTERVIEW...My Late wife told me 6 months before she died, that she always wanted to be a military nurse..>Gosh, How I wish I had known, because we would have enlisted through the "buddy system" - for Vietnam... I chose the Virginia State Police as a career, and later as a Pastor also...

Enjoyed your story very much. I hope 2021 finds you well.

God bless this patriot.

Thank you for your service

I'm a disabled Vietnam Vet and I was wounded on December 14, 1969. I'm from Massachusetts, born and bred.

Thank you Connie for your interview Wonderful American Thank you for your service

Ms. Walsh as a former USAF Ssgt. from the same exact service period I must say how proud of you and all of the wonderful sons and daughters i believe you represent. How beautifully you put into words what i think and believe so deeply ,service to our country is what alows America to be so great what our founding fathers and every gereration there after have worked and sacrificed for. Harry (noah) fathers and mothers

At 32:43 her words "we were not allowed to wear our uniforms off base." I was told the same thing when I arrived at Sheppard ATB. Thanks for uploading this.

The interviewer won my respect by asking questions that didn't arise from ideology . . . all those conflicting versions of what that war was like and why it happened. Connie is an extremely likable person who got swept up in a very difficult series of events. It is a story worth hearing without any overlying agendas.

Thank you for sharing your story with us. And thank you for your service.

Welcome home and thank you so much for your service.👊🏻🇺🇸

God Bless You Abundantly Thank You For Your Service

Listening to this took me back in time. I was first stationed on a ship out of Newport RI about the same time Nurse Walsh was there, and later, our ship spent some in Portsmouth VA, also about the time this very nice lady was there. I could connect with everything she was talking about. Thank you for sharing.

A good interview with a fine Lady, she is clearly an all American woman,, but I wonder if she ever travelled, lived and seen other Countries 😊 Best wishes from Scotland and France 😊

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME IN UNIFORM OF OUR GREAT COUNTRY. WELCOME HOME !. MERRY CHRISTMAS 2020

Good for you young lady. My respects from a Navy Seabee 68-70. Thank you young lady.

As a Vietnam Vet (FMF Navy Corpsman) served Marine Recon Team out of Phu Bai, and Quang Tri combat bases. I certainly recall helping some young Marines to deal with the "Dear John" letter. It is nice to here her remorse for her deed. I was 23 while serving in-country, I was two years with infantry companies at Camp Lejeune before my deployment to the 3rd Mar. Div. In-country. I volunteered for Recon because I believed I was well trained for the role I was to play in this war drama. Semper Fidelis Fratres Aeterni HM2 Tobin South Dakota

Every Marine knows there to be no greater valor than to serve our country as a corpsman.

Beautiful interview, beautiful woman, person. I think she still has a lot of her Convent school upbringing.

Very sweet and beautiful lady! Love her patriotism! God bless!🇺🇸🙏❤

Never getting see anyone grow up is one of the sacrifices children of military parents endure. I saw this when I served. Although this is an old video Connie is a very beautiful looking lady!

Thank you for telling your story.

Memories. I grew up on Air Force bases. A different world. I have very fond memories.

Gedunk... OMG, haven't heard that word in ages...😍

''There are none closer to the author of pain & sacrifice Himself... Than Those who perform it for the sake & safety of others.'' -gilpin 31920 Former Paratrooper Sgt. William Gilpin 82nd Abn. Inf. '71---'74

Near wars end in 1945 our mother, an Ensign nurse in the US Navy created some kind of family dynasty leading to my sister becoming a nurse as has our daughter a currently serving RN.

💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 thank you FOR YOU'RE SERVICE LADY'S SOLDIERS ✌💟

Thoughtful, articulate, somewhat protected until commissioned. She remembered and shared some very personal stories. She may not have gone to Vietnam but she certainly lived Vietnam. I did think it interesting she didn’t maintain any contacts from the era. I don’t mean it in a disparaging manner, but meant as an observation, she seems a bit Pollyanna.

This beautiful woman is the consummate patriot and empath!

THANK YOU!2003-2004%2007-2008 Iraq...

beautiful person

Elegant angel!

Fascinating.

'Angles in White' Served as a Marine Grunt. Our FMF Ground Force Doc's were one of us! The 13 months spent humping jungles and rice paddies was the worst time of my life. Not because of my MOS as a rifleman and relationships with my brother Marines. But, the betrayal of the gov't with lies about why we were in Nam. After discharge in August 69 became active in Vietnam Vets against the War. Only one color 'Green' Semper Fi! G/2/5 An Hoa Quang Nam Province 68-69

Interviewers, you must ask what was a typical day like...

this woman just proves why F inism doesnt work. hilarious. thank you for your service ms walsh.

Totally irrelevant but I hope not disrespectful....I bet she was stunning back in the day

You gave up on a soldier karma got you

I didn't get a warm fuzzy feeling from this interview. Seems she is trying hard to portray herself as this naïve patriotic woman who never spoke of or thought much about the realities of war. I don't see how that was possible viewing the injuries and hearing the stories of returning vet patients. She suffered reverse discrimination from angry black vets and doesn't seem to know why. She kept her peace beads hidden under her uniform. I guess she knew what side her bread was buttered on. She thinks Ronald Reagan patriotism and Israeli type universal service is the answer. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, and smile.

I have no compassion for someone who writes a Dear John to someone serving in Vietnam. I have seen what a Dear John letter does to a military person in Vietnam. Shame on you.

As naive and innocent as Linda Lovelace.Played the field too much.Probably why her flatmates shunned her.But all credit for her service.

your on loan from Heaven.

Army brat Navy Junior Navy brat

Sounds like a Navy brat to me.

The interviewer is pretty awful.🙄

God Bless You Abundantly Thank You For Your Service