Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 03, 2014

May you be remembered well, Ms. Lane.

..wait ..Sharon Lane was the only military woman killed by enemy fire on June 8th,1969,or the only military woman killed during the war??…

They have a nursing school named in her honor at Aultman Hospital, in Canton Ohio, with a life-size bronze statue of her in the commons area outside. She was a classmate from Canton South. RIP, and a salute, Ms. Lane.

“…the only female member of the U.S. military killed by enemy fire during the Vietnam war…” Many other military women members of “the other side” were killed. A half dozen or so female members of the U.S. military died during the war but not as a result of enemy fire,

And for what exactly?

@WilliamShortWell, as a Viet vet (USMC, ’68-"69) I believe it was essentially to make the wealthy and powerful evermore so. And the same with Iraq and A-stan. And I mean no disrespect to vets and their families, only to the wealthy and powerful.

Wars are rarely on behalf of the people who are doing the actual fighting.

1st Lt Lane RIP. You survived in country for only a month and 9 days when a Soviet made rocket slammed into the hospital ward in which you were working. You definitely earned your medals.

She was from N. Industry Ohio by Canton.

Just about any poison can be medicinal in the right quantity.

That war (and yes, I was there) was not all about making people rich. Times were different then. Many of us believed that we were there to help a nation stay free.