Common Valor - #4 Bill Donoghue: You Will Kill My Family

#4 Bill Donoghue: You Will Kill My Family

01/21/19 • 13 min

Today's story was part of a veteran workshop celebration hosted at the Currier Museum of Art. Over three months veterans prepared their stories and then delivered them to a live audience.
Bill Donoghue became a hospital corpsman in 1967. He served, helping repair broken bodies in an ER at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital. In 1970, Bill ended up as part of a 'combined action squad' in the Republic of Vietnam.

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This story was part of a veteran workshop celebration hosted at the Currier Museum of Art. Over three months veterans prepared their stories and then delivered them to a live audience.

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