Vietnam War Questions (2)?

I am curious to know the answers to two questions.
1. Did many nurses in the Vietnam War die?
2. Did Privates or Corparals of war send letters home to families telling them that the soldier from that family died?

Please list any sources. I would like to check them out to make sure.

Eight nurses died, seven in helicopter crashes not caused by enemy action plus one in a mortar attack on Chu Lai. Their names are on the wall at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Check out the link.
The documentary is based on the forthcoming book The Fine Art of Nursing Care: Lessons in Healing from War and Art, by Margaret Carson, RN, PhD and Linda Finke, RN, PhD. The honor society will publish the book in spring 2007. Margaret Carson, lead author and honor society member, interviewed 172 nurses who served in Vietnam. She uncovered an immense reservoir of buried pain and post-traumatic stress disorder.

As far as the letters home to the families. They may have been typed by corporals, but I believe they had to be dictated and signed by the officer in charge.

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