And If I Perish

Abstract

Authors’ affiliations: Dr Monahan is a retired psychologist who served in the Women’s Army Corps, 1961–1967, as a corpsman and psychiatric technician in the United States and Japan. Ms Neidel-Greenlee, now retired, was a Quality Management Analyst and former Assistant Chief of Nursing Service at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and served in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps on active duty 1962–1965 and reserve duty 1989–1991. They are the authors of All This Hell: U.S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese (2000) and (with Agnes Jensen Mangerich) Albanian Escape: The True Story of U.S. Army Nurses Behind Enemy Lines (1999). Corresponding author: Ms Neidel-Greenlee, P.O. Box 19114, Atlanta, GA 31119 ([email protected]). This article is being published simultaneously in the November/December 2004 issue of Nurse Educator. From AND IF I PERISH by Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee, copyright ©2003 by Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee. Adapted and reprinted with permission from Alfred A. Knopf and recently published in trade paperback by Anchor Books.