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A total of nearly 9,000 women served as nurses in the Vietnam War. Their average age was 23, and most had just graduated from nursing school when they volunteered. Eight of them died in the war. Panelist Mary Stolz, an Iron Mountain, Michigan resident, kept wounded men from bleeding out. Panelist Denny Schoville was one such critically wounded casualty. The helicopter pilot, with a Distinguished Flying Cross, two Silver Stars, and a Bronze Star, was shot in the temple and left calf and still managed to land his bullet-riddled chopper. A nurse kept him from bleeding out and stabilized him so that he could be flown to a fully equipped Army hospital in Japan. Panelist Peter Dodge trained as an Army medic and volunteered for Vietnam but was sent to Thailand to provide public health services. As a result of Peter's and fellow MEDCAPS work, Vietnam was only the second U.S. war in which fewer men died of disease than in battle. The panel is moderated by Lawrence Dolph, who served on Night Ambush Patrol for the 9th Infantry Division and later as a U.S. Army News correspondent.