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Girls Don'tInette MillerLabel: Texas A & M University PressDescription: The year is 1970; the war in Vietnam is five years from over. The women's movement is newly resurgent and feminists are summarily reviled as libbers. Inette Miller is one year out of college—a reporter for a small-town newspaper. Her boyfriend gets drafted and is issued orders to Vietnam. Within their few remaining days together Inette marries her US Army private determined to accompany him to war. There are obstacles. All wives of US military are prohibited in-country. With the aid of her newspaper's editor Miller finagles a one-month work visa and becomes a war reporter. Her newspaper cannot afford life insurance beyond that. After thirty days she is on her own. As one of the rare woman war correspondents in Vietnam and the only one also married to an Army soldier Miller's experience was pathbreaking.