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The Girl in the Picture: The Kim Phúc Story, the Photograph and the Vietnam War, by Denise Chong, is a 1999 biographical and historical book tracing the life story of Phúc. Chong's historical coverage emphasizes the life, especially the school and family life, of Phúc from before the attack, through convalescence, and into the present time.
A Viet Cong guerilla A Vietnamese woman weeps over the body of her husband, one of the Vietnamese Army casualties South Korean Tiger Division nurses, September 1968. Women in the Vietnam War were active in a large variety of roles, making significant impacts on the War and with the War having significant impacts on them.
The reunification of North and South Vietnam after the Vietnam War, in 1976, also allowed women to take on leadership roles in politics. [58] One author said that Vietnam during the 1980s was "a place where, after exhausting work and furious struggle, women can be confident that they travel the path which will some day arrive at their liberation."
Trịnh Thị Ngọ ([ṯɕïŋ˧ˀ˨ʔ tʰi˧ˀ˨ʔ ŋɔ˧ˀ˨ʔ]; 1931 – 30 September 2016), also known as Thu Hương and Hanoi Hannah, was a Vietnamese radio personality best known for her work during the Vietnam War, when she made English-language broadcasts for North Vietnam directed at United States troops.
also: Countries: Vietnam: People: Women also: People : By gender : Women : By nationality : Vietnamese This category exists only as a container for other categories of Vietnamese women .
Former first lady Michelle Obama spoke to students at a school in Vietnam while promoting education for girls to help reach their full potential.
Donald Goldstein, a retired Air Force colonel and a co-author of a prominent Vietnam War photojournalism book, The Vietnam War: The Stories and The Photographs, says of Burst of Joy, "After years of fighting a war we couldn't win, a war that tore us apart, it was finally over, and the country could start healing." [5]
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