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Volunteering A Piece Of My Heart In Theatre
When seeing A Piece Of My Heart in theatre, it was a lot different than reading it. There were many characters that had compelling reasons for volunteering to go to Vietnam war. There were four nurses Martha, Sissy, Whitney and Leeann who were all part of the red cross but one of the characters that stood out to me most and who had the best reason to go to Vietnam for the first time to volunteer was Martha. Martha was a strong powerful woman that had experience in nursing and whose family was in military, a person that has been around fighting all her life and is self-composed which is all pros when looking for who should volunteer to go to Vietnam war. Martha seemed like the best character to have good enough reasons to volunteer because
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