Document Type

Oral History

Beth Parks and Colonel Mary Cady, interviewed by Devida Kellogg

Interviewee name

Beth Parks
Mary Cady

Interviewer

Devida Kellogg

Interview date

8-25-2002

Time

00:47:08

Files

Streaming Media

Abstract

Beth Parks and Lieutenant Colonel Mary Cady, interviewed by Devida Kellogg, August 25, 2002. Parks and Cady, on the Veterans Panel, speak of their experiences in the military during the Vietnam War era; reasons for enlisting in the military; society’s reactions to the Vietnam War; propaganda, including “The Green Beret” by Robert Moore and “The Ballad of the Green Beret” by Staff Sergeant Barry Saddler; Beth’s experiences in a MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital); Beth’s participation in constructing an evacuation hospital; MK’s education and participation in the Army at the University of Kansas; the College Army Nurse and WAC Student Officer Programs; MK’s training at Fort McClellan, Alabama, and Fort Ben Harrison, Indiana; MK’s employment at Fort Riley, Kansas, and Fort Devens, Massachusetts; MK’s enlistment in the Army Reserves; MK’s retirement in April of 1990; their experiences as women in the military; sexism in the military; the G.I. Bill; Mr. Branneth, a Canadian Vietnam Veteran; opinions on women in combat; and education at the University of Maine. Text: no transcript. Recording: mfc_na3085_c2129_01 (C 2129). Time: 00:47:08. Photographs: p14552-p14557. Restrictions: None.

Disciplines

Military History | Oral History | United States History | Women's History

Home state/Territory

Maine

Gender

Female

Ethnicity

European-American

Comments

Interview collected as part of MF147 Nursing Collection project.

Branch of service

U.S. Army

Service entry

Enlisted

Wars & Conflicts

Vietnam War

Collection name

Women in the Military

Collection number

MF144

Item number

NA3085

Recommended Citation

Parks, Beth and Cady, Mary, "Beth Parks and Colonel Mary Cady, interviewed by Devida Kellogg" (2023). MF144 Women in the Military. 2.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf144/2

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