VietNamNet Bridge – American Navy nurse Susan Schnall was dismissed from service and sentenced to six months of hard labour for protesting against the American war in Vietnam in 1969. In March she visited Vietnam for a fifth time with other 22 American veterans. They took part in a commemoration of the My Lai Massacre and the opening of an exhibition called Waging Peace at the War Remnants Museum in HCM City to display for the first time the newspapers, photographs, posters and films circulated underground by the GI peace movement. Viet Nam News spoke with Schnal. Nurse for peace: American Susan Schnall at the exhibition in HCM City. How were you involved with the American war in Vietnam? From 1967 to 1969 I was a Navy nurse at Oak Knoll Hospital, which was built during World War II in Oakland, California, to care for Marines wounded in the Pacific. I had joined the service to alleviate suffering by caring for wounded troops from the war in Vietnam. It was at night … [Read more...] about US Navy nurse, jailed for protest, revisits VN