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Nurses Win Purple Hearts in Viet Nam Scene
Lt. Barbara J. Wooster, a U S Navy nurse from Maryland, and two others were awarded the Purple Heart in Saigon after a Christmas Eve hotel bombing. Her brother Roger House, reporting from Baltimore, shared letters describing the attack, housebound life, and courage amid danger in Viet Nam.
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