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It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. Now we continue our WNYC

Centennial series, 100 Years of 100 Things. It's thing number 89, 100 years of women in the military,

including your oral histories, stories of women in your family who served anytime from World War I, let's say,

until now. Who wants to tell any story of a woman in your family who served in any branch of the

military as far back as you want to go? Even before World War I, if there were any, let's try for

some generations ago stories first. Let's say World War I through

Vietnam, the first 50 years of the 100, and we'll open it up for more recent ones later.

212-433, WNYC, 212, 433-9692. Of course, we're doing this as we have a new defense secretary who famously said,

we need moms, just not in the military. And we're doing this today on the actual 50th anniversary

of the end of the Vietnam War. That was April 30th, 1975. So your women in the Vietnam era military story is very much invited.

Who wants to tell a story about your service as a woman during Vietnam or that of anyone

you know or knew about what you did or what they did, about barriers or opportunities or

sexual harassment or anything else in your experience then? 212-3333, WNYC, 212, 433-9-6-9-2.

Here's a clip from that era to start us off.

This is from a video that was made in 2020

by the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration, or the video was a

commemoration. And this is retired Navy Lieutenant Commander Bobby Hovis.

I was the first Navy nurse to volunteer for Vietnam and the First Navy Flight nurse to volunteer for Korea.

Winston Churchill said one time,

there is nothing so exhilarating in life than to be shot at and missed.

And that's what happened to me.

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