Van Devanter, a veteran and author, wrote Home Before Morning, a compelling memoir published in 1979, just ten years after she arrived in war-torn South Vietnam and a year after the National Health Center defined a new disease, commonly referred to as Post Traumatic Stress Disease (PTSD). This book was one of the few early female memoirs that spoke for the muted female veterans of Vietnam. She discusses in detail about her voluntary year of service and the years to follow her return from war. During Van Devanter’s assimilation period, the Vietnam War’s popularity plummeted and the intangible wound which she acquired only grew more difficult to confront. This memoir was published to raise awareness of the female Vietnam Veterans, although a miniscule group of approximately 11,000, they are one of importance, whose suffering should be
Van Devanter, a veteran and author, wrote Home Before Morning, a compelling memoir published in 1979, just ten years after she arrived in war-torn South Vietnam and a year after the National Health Center defined a new disease, commonly referred to as Post Traumatic Stress Disease (PTSD). This book was one of the few early female memoirs that spoke for the muted female veterans of Vietnam. She discusses in detail about her voluntary year of service and the years to follow her return from war. During Van Devanter’s assimilation period, the Vietnam War’s popularity plummeted and the intangible wound which she acquired only grew more difficult to confront. This memoir was published to raise awareness of the female Vietnam Veterans, although a miniscule group of approximately 11,000, they are one of importance, whose suffering should be