Waiting Wives
Subtitle: The Story of Schilling Manor, Home Front to the Vietnam War
Publisher: Atria
Published: May 3, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780743470773
Subjects: U.S. History - Vietnam Conflict (1965-1973); Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Sociology; Sociology Of Women; Women's Studies - General; Social Science; Biography / Autobiography; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States; Literary; Biography & Autobiography / General; Military - Vietnam War; Women; Military spouses; Schilling Manor (Kan.)
First sentence: By the time Kansas Congressman Bob Dole announced the closing of Schilling Air Force Base (SAFB) in November 1964, the U.S. military death toll in Vietnam hovered around four hundred.