Author served on Bataan and was evacuated from Corregidor by submarine. She weighed only 70 pounds after her ordeal on Bataan. Months after arriving back in the states she lost all her hair, her fingernails and townails. She then trained as a flight nurse and went back to the Southwest Pacific Theater to help fly out American POWs. She then married a former POW and became a military wife. On page 116 she tells an interesting story about being in the Army Reserves and being called up with a friend (also a young mother) when the Korean War started. When they had their physicals, the base doctor told them they could "wean their breast feeding babies in ten days," and still be ready to leave for Korea!!! They had to apply to be released, even though in theory they should have been automatically let go because they had children.