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Lynda Van Devanter Buckley, an advocate for women veterans, died November 15, at her home in Herndon, Virginia, after a long illness. She was An Arlington native, she served in Vietnam in and as a surgical nurse with the 71st Evacuation Hospital in Pleiku, near the Cambodian border. Her acclaimed memoir, "Home Before Morning," was the first widely-published book by a female veteran on the Vietnam War.

It described her experience of the horrors of the war and was among the first to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD , from which she suffered. She wrote that she and other nurses and doctors took to drinking, drug use and sexual liaisons to find distraction.

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The book, co-authored by Christopher Morgan, was inspiration for the TV drama "China Beach," which ran from to I'm tired of going to sleep listening to outgoing and incoming rockets, mortars and artillery. I'm sick of facing, every day, a new bunch of children ripped to pieces," she wrote. After retiring in she continued to write articles, edit volumes of poetry, give speeches and conduct seminars.

Buckley suffered from systemic collagen vascular disease, which she attributed to wartime exposure to chemical agents and pesticides.