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She Wore Two Wristwatches
I remember going to see the Chief Army Psychiatrist in Vietnam and I went to see her because I thought she could tell me things about the mental health of the troops. We had half a million men and women there, mostly men, but she was a woman. She was a full colonel. She was African American and she was all colonel. She was also a little quirky. She wore two wristwatches. One that told her the time in Saigon, the other told her the time back in Denver where she lived because she said she wanted to keep touch with reality. She had two piles of papers in her office, one was Stars and Stripes, the army paper, and the other was the Denver post.
I don’t know whether she ever made general but it was time for me to leave and I needed to be escorted out because it was a secure area in the military headquarters. She called out with a parade ground voice “Troop!” and this soldier came in saying “Yes Ma’am!” No doubt who was in charge.
Object Description
| Profile of | Michael Parks |
| Title | A Life Apart from Vietnam |
| Profile bio | The Wrong War |
| Profiler bio | Michael Parks is a journalist originally from Detroit, Michigan, whose work as a foreign correspondent took him to Saigon, Moscow, Johannesburg, Beijing, and Hong Kong. He received a Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in 1987 for his coverage of South Africa. He worked as the editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years and helped launch the “Reading by 9” program to help children read at grade level. Parks has been a member of the USC community since 2000 and was director of the Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism from 2002 until 2008. He was appointed interim director at Annenberg in June of 2013. |
| Subject | Kaitlyn Mullin is a junior and a double major in Biological Sciences and Print and Digital Journalism. Renzhi Yu is a senior and a double major in Business Administration and Accounting. Sofia Shoffner is a sophomore and a double major in International Relations and Spanish. Jalen Cope-Fitzpatrick is a sophomore and an International Relations major. |
| Interviewee |
Vietnam Vietnam war news communism viet cong draft |
| Profiled by | Mullin, Kaitlyn; Yu, Renzhi; Schoffner, Sofia; Fitzpatrick, Jalen Cope |
| Profile date | 2014-04-12 |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Detroit; Saigon; Ho Chi Minh City; Hanoi; Moscow; Johannesburg; Beijing; Hong Kong |
| Geographic subject (county) | Wayne |
| Geographic subject (state) | Michigan; Kentucky |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA; Vietnam; Russia; South Africa; China; Korea, Laos |
| Coverage date | 1972 |
| Publisher (of the original version) | http://anotherwarmemorial.com/michael-parks/ |
| Type |
images video |
| Format | 1 image; 8 video files; 8 transcripts |
| Language | English |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Part of collection | An Other War Memorial -- Memories of the American War in Viet Nam |
| Filename | parksmichaels |
Description
| Profile of | Michael Parks |
| Title | She Wore Two Wristwatches |
| Format | 1 transcript, 1p. |
| Filename | parksmichaels-vid5_tr5.pdf |
| Full text | She Wore Two Wristwatches I remember going to see the Chief Army Psychiatrist in Vietnam and I went to see her because I thought she could tell me things about the mental health of the troops. We had half a million men and women there, mostly men, but she was a woman. She was a full colonel. She was African American and she was all colonel. She was also a little quirky. She wore two wristwatches. One that told her the time in Saigon, the other told her the time back in Denver where she lived because she said she wanted to keep touch with reality. She had two piles of papers in her office, one was Stars and Stripes, the army paper, and the other was the Denver post. I don’t know whether she ever made general but it was time for me to leave and I needed to be escorted out because it was a secure area in the military headquarters. She called out with a parade ground voice “Troop!” and this soldier came in saying “Yes Ma’am!” No doubt who was in charge. |
| Archival file | Volume6/parksmichaels-vid5_tr5.pdf |
