Marching for Peace

Beginning in 1967, I was a Navy nurse at Oak Knoll Hospital, which was built during World War II in Oakland, California, to care for the Marines wounded in the Pacific. I had joined the service to alleviate suffering by caring for wounded troops from the war in Vietnam. By 1969, I was court-martialed for my actions against the war. I can still remember the nighttime screams of pain and fear at Oak Knoll. Badly injured young men would dream their nightmares of war, of dead and dying buddies rotting in the dense jungles of Vietnam. They would scream their