Courageous Women of the Vietnam War by Kathryn J. Atwood

Author:Kathryn J. Atwood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2018-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

ANNE KOCH

“I Knew in My Heart That I Had to Go”

ANNE KOCH WAS RAISED BY two World War II veterans. Her father, George Koch, had been severely wounded while on a reconnaissance mission searching for Erwin Rommel, the commander of the German army in North Africa.

After receiving immediate care, George was sent back to the United States via transport ship and admitted to the Walter Reed army hospital in Washington, DC. There he fell in love with the head nurse on the chest surgery floor, a woman named Helen Adams. They were married on June 4, 1944.

George and Helen were determined to instill patriotism and an understanding of American history in their children. So the Koch family spent many summer vacations visiting sites of historic American battles—such as Lexington and Concord, in Massachusetts, and Valley Forge and Gettysburg, in Pennsylvania—as well as Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, in Philadelphia.

In middle school, Anne’s teachers often showed vocational films in class. One such film showed doctors at work. The girls in the class began screaming, “Ooh, blood!” Anne, however, found the film quite fascinating. In fact, from that moment on, she was determined to follow in her mother’s footsteps, and in 1966 she graduated from the Chester County Hospital School for Nursing.

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