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Stacy Donnelly

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Army medic Stacy Donnelly recalls the interpreters she worked with in Iraq, as well as two people in her unit who were memorable to her. She remembers the humorous things, like the truck stuck in a ditch, and the not so humorous things, like the time she was near an IED blast. (6:40)

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She had no bad experiences related to being a woman at war in Iraq. Stacy Donnelly was lucky in that respect. She wrote home a lot but she had trouble communicating with her husband, who was also a combat medic serving there in a different unit. (4:13)

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Coming home was weird. It took Stacy Donnelly a few months to adjust to the fact that trash on the side of the road was not hiding an IED. She and her husband were both combat medics there and it took him a little longer to readjust. (3:35)

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Stacy Donnelly had left the Army and was home with her first child. Her husband, also a combat medic, was the lifer and he was still over in Iraq. They had scheduled a call and, when he didn't make it, she feared the worst. (4:48)

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"It's not for the weak-minded." Stacy Donnelly recalls what it was like going to war and the physical and mental toughness it requires. She got there just before Christmas and the Temptations Christmas album helped her make it through. (2:32)

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Stacy Donnelly met her future husband Justin when they were both in training as Army combat medics. Serving in Iraq with different units meant that their communications were limited. Then he deployed again and she waited at home with a newborn. (18:35)

Stan Hodsdon

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Air Corps Cadet Stan Hodsdon signed up for flight training but before it was completed, manpower needs in the European Theater caused the entire class of pilots to switch to other crew positions and ship out. (6:15)

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After a miserable Atlantic crossing with sick troops and British rice, Stan Hodsdon settled into a routine of rising at 0400 to fuel up B-17s for the day’s bombing missions. (4:15)

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First, they told Stan Hodsdon that his broken hand wasn’t broken. Then, they put a huge cast on it, which kept the B-17 ground crew member from doing his job. Then, they told him that he was in the infantry. (6:48)

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When Stan Hodsdon was reassigned to the infantry and put on the march in the push after Normandy, he never even knew what his unit was, his pay was messed up, and he went through the worst winter on record with no winter gear. Part 1 of 2. (7:47)