since then have chosen to ignore their plight. One Response to "Our care of Australian civilian nurses who served during the Vietnam war." When I ventured into nursing back in 2002 I started looking at a range of nursing related books just to get a handle of what nursing really entailed having never worked in nursing before. I was living in Queanbeyan at the time and had a look through the Queanbeyan Library and found a book called "Tears on my Pillow: Australian Nurses in Vietnam" written by Narelle Biedermann (2004). It was a good insight of experiences the Australian Nurses endured in combat zones during their time in Vietnam. I was even surprised to read on page (9) that nurses during the Boer War in early 1900 used to pay their own travel expenses in order to provide nursing care to the Australian troops. One of the Vietnam nurses on page (17) states that even today the sound of a chopper (helicopter) brings up bad memories as the sound of choppers in Vietnam meant more casualties were coming in. This week I brought the book called "Exit Wounds" written by Major General John Cantwell which was released this week. John Cantwell ended up suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) over years of submerging his war experiences from the Gulf War to Afghanistan. I am still reading this book but it does appear that Australia needs to better manage the health and welfare of the troops that experience the horrors