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MOVIE TIMES D3 ANN LANDERS 4D4 COMICS D4-5 SECTION THURSDAY November 11, 1993 i 11 11 1 i i Li 11 VA Kwconds -tV I 7 Same Fe, N.M., and the idea of Diane Carlson Evans, an Army nurse who was stationed in Vietnam in 1968-69. Sucher Greeley, who lives in Piscataway, will be there in Washington. So will Linda Caldwell of North Plainfield. This week, thousands of Vietnam women veterans will gather in Washington for the dedication of the Vietnam Women's Memorial today. The bronze sculpture depicts three women and a wounded soldier.

It is the work of sculptor Glenna Goodacre of By PETER GENOVESE Home News IWter The nurses aboard the hos-' pital ship Sanctuary, which shuttled between the DMZ 1 and Da Nang during the Vietnam War, had their own words for the various operations they witnessed. One was called a "horrible-ec-tomy." "A lot (of limbs and organs) were shattered, destroyed," Cas-sie Sucher Greeley recalled. "What couldn't be saved was removed." She remembered one GI; his name was Bobby Davis. He was a short, muscular blond-haired kid, "one of those sweet boys," she said, "who didn't want to hurt anybody's feelings." When Bobby was admitted to her unit aboard the Sanctuary in 1968, he was hurt bad, with amputated limbs; massive chest and abdominal injuries, "tubes running everywhere." His condition would improve and then worsen. Finally, he was stable enough to be Medivac-ed out.

The day before he was to leave, he said goodbye to all his friends aboard the ship. That night, his condition worsened. He asked Sucher Greeley, then a 26-year-old nurse, to release him. He knew he wasn't going to make it, and he didn't want to die at sea. "He wanted to die on land," she said.

"For him, to die on a ship was to drown." She signed the papers so he could leave on the Medivac flight early the next morning. "Five o'clock I let him go," she said. "Eight o'clock, he died in Da Nang." 'A lot of daughters' The story of the 1 1,000 women who served in Vietnam as nurses, doctors and physical therapists, in military intelligence and other roles is filled with chap On this Veterans Day, America pays tribute "You don't remember names," Caldwell said. "You remember faces, places." She was an Army nurse in Vietnam. One of the faces in April 1968 was a young soldier whose company was nearly wiped out in a firefight.

"I picked up my leg that was blown off and crawled back up the hill," Jim Bacz-kowski once recalled. He was taken to the 67th Evacuation Hospital in Qui Nhon. His only good memory of the time, he said, was the blond-haired, blue-eyed nurse who gave him the encouragement to live. Twenty-five years later, he would go on "Unsolved Mysteries" and ask that anyone knowing of Capt. Linda Sharp's whereabouts to contact him because he had never had the chance to thank her.

Caldwell Capt. Linda Sharp happened to be watching a preview of the show. ment to live. Twenty-five years later, he I h-4. lA to its women.

ft? 1 1 Their eventual reunion, she said, was the culmination of her nursing career. To Baczkowski, it meant something more. nureing career. To VA .1 "I'm all right," he said, cry ing. "We fought a few battles but I have won the war." Caldwell served from Tfe TV Thanksg ters like these, most sad, but some happy ones, too.

wyg "People talk a lot about sons is. being there," said Casey Wolferse of Fairfield, one of those 1 1 ,000. "There were a lot of daughters there, too." iving Day 1967 to Harbor Day, 1968. She 'VW yf PageD2 The Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington, left, will be dedicated today. Two veterans, Judy Jenkins Gaudino, top, and Linda Sharp Caldwell of North Plainfield, both shown here in war snapshots, will be on hand for the dedication.

TV looks at JFK death on 30th anniversary By SCOTT WILLIAMS The Associated Press Still, the album does feature some deliciously catchy Lemonheads hooks and the vague, slightly surreal lyrics for which the band is known. Dando's best lyrics are the ones written from a woman's perspec- tive. "It's About Time," written from the perspective of Juliana Hatfield, Dando's pal and sometimes bandmate, captures the slow-boil anger and sadness so common in Hatfield's own work. "I'll Do it Anyway," written for Belinda Carlisle (who sings backup on the song), has that giggly Go-Go's feel to it. "Being Around," a song that Dando describes as "a children's song, sort of about ambiguity," is just that a sweet, sing-song track worthy of a guest role on "Sesame Street." "Come On, Feel The Lemonheads" is nowhere near as good as the Boston-based band's seamless breakthrough album, "It's A Shame About Ray," which featured track after track of pure pop delights.

Their latest collection contains several throw-away tracks. Instead of including not one, but two versions of a banal get-stohed song why didn't The Lemonheads include a well-known cover song or two? Evan Dando told The Home News last year it bothers him that listeners often remember his band's covers rather than their originals. But with a track record that includes wonderful takes on "Luka," "Different Drum" and "Frank Mills" (not to mention "Mrs. why tamper with success? "Favorite is a sad little acoustic break-up song. "Down About It" is one of the few tracks where The Lemonheads let their hair down and rock out it's actually a cover of a song by Dando's writing partner Tom Morgan's band Smudge.

Another energetic track is "Dawn Can't Decide," fast becoming my favorite on the disc, as much for its rapid-fire lyrics as for it's edgy popness. The current Lemonheads line-up is Dando on guitar, vocals and piano; David Ryan, drums; and Nic Dalton, bass. One hint: let the CD run until the very end. The band sticks in at least three musical Sgt. Pepper-like segments not mentioned on the album.

Kelly-Jane Cotter TV unified a country in mourning and burned its images into our national psyche. Television since has lost that power to unify, and one in five Americans alive today was not yet born when Kennedy was killed. Even those who lived those strange, uncertain days may yet have forgotten. For them all, next week, television will attempt to do what it still docs best: Television will remember. See JFK, pageD2 ALBUM Patients helps Lemonheads latest "Come On, Feel The Lemon-heads," The Lemonheads, Atlantic Unlike previous efforts by The Lemonheads, this album requires a few spins before it wins your affections.

But be patient, it will. Even the wimpy first single, "Into Your Arms," is beginning to grow on me now. NEW YORK The assassination of President John F. Kennedy was a defining moment for the United States, for generations of Americans and for television, which came of age in those sad days 30 years gone by. Where were you? Watching television.

And watching television transcend itself during those four bleak, blank days of shock, horror and grief..