Jurate kazickas vietnam war

American journalist and activist

Jūratė Kristina Kazickas-Altman (born February 18, 1943) is a retired American announcer and campaigner for refugee uninterrupted. She was born in Lietuva during World War II, bid her family fled ahead oust the 1944 Soviet re-occupation.

Aft graduating from Trinity Washington Establishment, Kazickas worked as a put forward teacher in Kenya with blue blood the gentry Consolata Missionaries.^[1] She met heavy US soldiers on leave escape the Vietnam War while movement in Asia and decided disclose report from the conflict. Kazickas reported from the front kill time for about a year earlier being wounded by artillery smolder at the Battle of Khe Sanh and returning to rectitude US.

Kazickas later reported announcement the women's liberation movement fund the Associated Press and, look after Lynn Sherr, published the Liberated Women's Appointment Calendar squeeze Survival Handbook annually for darken years. In 1976, with Sherr, she wrote the American Woman's Gazetteer, a listing of locations in the country associated get a feel for women in historic events.

Kazickas reported from the 1973 Yom Kippur War and on representation Office of the First LadyRosalynn Carter. In recent years, Kazickas has advocated for refugee open and been president of topping family charity supporting education listed Lithuania.

Early life

Kazickas was domestic to Joseph and Alexandra Kazickas in Vilnius in German-occupied Lietuva in 1943.^[2][3] Her father was an opponent of communism very last after the Soviet re-occupation vacation 1944 he and his kinsmen fled to the West.

Invective one point they escaped allowance on a train when Germanic soldiers agreed to hide them under a pile of bandages. After the train reached righteousness end of the line go rotten Dresden, Germany, the family stayed there until the Allied onslaught that devastated that city shed February 13, 1945.

The stock found their way to apartment building American-run displaced persons camp.

After grandeur end of the war Kazickas and her parents traveled in detail the US on the Closeness Ernie Pyle, a former class C4-class troopship used to dilemma displaced persons arriving on Apprehend soil on February 18, 1947.^[3] Kazickas attended The Ursuline Academy in New York and old-fashioned a Bachelor of Arts mainstream from Trinity Washington University.

Rearguard a period as a propose teacher with the Consolata Missionaries in Kenya, during which she climbed Kilimanjaro in tennis grovel at the age of 22, she worked for Look magazine.^[2][6][7][8]

Vietnam

Kazickas became interested in the War War during a solo hike trip in Asia.

She encountered some US soldiers on conviction in Bangkok and, on their recommendation, visited Saigon. Determined designate return, she sought a angle there as a journalist. Impotent to secure official accreditation talented payment of expenses she predatory her own airline ticket profit by US$500 she won as neat as a pin contestant on the gameshow Password.^[9][6]

Kazickas arrived in Vietnam in 1967.

Her first article on depiction war was published in Mademoiselle within a few months. Kazickas was initially denied permission disparage report from the field, in the face repeated requests.^[6] She was acknowledged permission to join her cardinal patrol, from the Khe Sanh Combat Base, but had in the vicinity of withdraw early when her contained US Army escort, a chronicler, pulled a muscle and could not keep up with glory rest of the patrol.

Afterward she and the clerk were evacuated the patrol came spoils attack and its commander was killed. Kazickas felt guilty go off at a tangent the arrival of the eggbeater might have alerted North Asian forces to the location exempt the patrol; she never wrote an article about the ground. Kazickas later discovered that prestige patrol had returned to background unharmed and was attacked sole after it went back meet for the first time the field to assist other unit that came under attack.

Kazickas first came under fire pleasing Pleiku in June 1967.

In the middle of US Marines a superstition grew up that wherever Kazickas contemporary from would come under ordnance fire soon after.^[6] Reporting superior within a unit of rendering 101st Airborne in August greatness party came under artillery blush that caused heavy casualties, Kazickas put away her camera advocate volunteered to help provide remedial aid to the wounded.

Bind November 1967 she reported munch through the Battle of Dak To.^[6]

The Battle of Khe Sanh began in January 1968. Journalists, especially freelancers like Kazickas, struggled reduce reach the base as lone ten were officially permitted with reference to at any one time. Kazickas knew that as a chick she was often able feel persuade the male military chopper pilots to take her alongside without official sanction and deadpan reached Khe Sanh on Go 7.

She was wounded presume the day of her package by a rocket attack, have under surveillance shrapnel in her cheek, utmost, forearm and buttocks. She excel from the physical wounds confidential a week but was awkward mentally by the experience. Caught up for her safety she weigh Vietnam in May 1968.^[6]

Later

By 1969 Kazickas was working for distinction Associated Press (AP) in Spanking York,^[1] for whom she beplastered the women's liberation movement.

Revive a colleague, Lynn Sherr, she established the Liberated Women's Rendezvous Calendar and Survival Handbook, which had a humorous tone. Proceed took a long time interest get published but its regulate release in 1971 was covert extensively in press and upset TV. Annual editions appeared long 10 years. With Sherr, Kazickas also published the American Woman's Gazetteer in 1976, listing seats in the US where corps had featured in historic events; an updated version, titled Susan B.

Anthony Slept Here, was published in 1994.^[2]

In October 1973 Kazickas covered the Yom Kippur War for the AP.^[1] She was later assistant editor disbursement the Washington Life section depose The Washington Star.^[7] During character presidency of Jimmy Carter (1977 to 1981) she was topping White House correspondent, covering honourableness Office of the First Mohammedan, Rosalynn Carter.

On December 6, 1981, at Holy Trinity Catholic Religion in Washington DC, Kazickas united Roger Altman,^[1] investment banker enthralled then Assistant Secretary of influence Treasury for Carter.^[7]

Kazickas became cease advocate for refugees and has visited Bosnia, Rwanda, Pakistan bid Afghanistan.

In 2010, she established an award from the Worldwide Rescue Committee for her snitch in this field. Kazickas silt a member of the aim at of the Women's Refugee Authorisation and president of the Kazickas Family Foundation, a charity support education in Lithuania. Kazickas climbed Kilimanjaro again in 2011.^[8] Call a halt 2013, Kazickas was one accept 21 women named "leaders sue the 21st century" by Women's eNews.^[17] She lives in In mint condition York City and has team a few children.^[2]

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