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Cedar Rapids Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

17 Jul 1988

Page 7

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Cedar Rapids Gazette

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

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Jul 17, 1988

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7

First nurse killed by hostile fire in Vietnam honored locally

Memorials mark Sharon A Lane the first woman killed by enemy fire in Vietnam. At Chu Lai she died June 1969 after a rocket attack. posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Purple Heart and Vietnamese Gallantry Cross. Her nurse family remembers a modest, ordinary person.

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Mercy Ships Sail For Disaster Relief Across the Caribbean

Mercy Ships and the Good Samaritan dock in Alexandria to recruit crew and fundraise for missions. The Anastasis, carrying 350 to 400 crew, provides medical care from eye surgery to cleft lip repairs while operating a floating community with classrooms, a bank, a post office and a store.

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