Minnesota's Women Vietnam Veterans Oral History Project: Interview with Ann Benson Rudolph

Titles: Minnesota's Women Vietnam Veterans Oral History Project: Interview with Ann Benson Rudolph (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Ann Benson Rudolph was born in Illinois and attended St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. She studied nursing and later enlisted in the U.S. Army. She served in Vietnam as a nurse and, upon return to the United States, became involved in groups such as the Veterans Administration (VA) and a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) group. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Childhood; college; becoming a nurse; joining the U.S. Army Nurse Corps; training at Fort Sam Houston; working at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.; meeting and marrying her college sweetheart; getting orders to go to Vietnam; family's reaction to her Vietnam orders; gender issues in the military; interaction with male colleagues in the military; nursing as a female-dominated profession; arrival in Vietnam and working at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital unit; culture and people of Vietnam; working in the psychiatric ward; hospital conditions; differences between evacuation hospitals and field hospitals; bonding with patients; emotional implications of war; being a symbol for the Army Nurse Corps; being naive before Vietnam; memorable experiences in Vietnam; being unaware of the political situation; corresponding with husband and parents; going back home; the Vietnam Women's Memorial; involvement in the VA; discharge; post-traumatic stress disorder; war and the media; current war in Iraq; advice for soldiers; what it means to be an American citizen.

Dates

• 05/26/2005 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Heikkila, Kim
• interviewee: Rudolph, Ann Benson

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 113
• Accession Number: AV2007.38.10

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Minnesota's Women Vietnam Veterans Oral History Project' <OH 113>

Quantity: 3 hours sound cassette 59 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 180 minutes length

Subjects

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