Doctor Marjorie Nelson: A Hoosier Quaker in Vietnam

The knock on the door of the American teacher’s home came a few days after 80,000 North Vietnamese Army forces and their Viet Cong allies struck South Vietnamese cities and U.S. installations during the Vietnamese Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday in an operation that became known as the Tet Offensive . The country’s ancient imperial capital, Hue, had been one of the major cities attacked. Marjorie…