BOISE, Idaho — 44,000 Idahoans are Vietnam Veterans. On Monday, in honor of Veterans Day, we heard from four of them about their memories and experiences.

Though Elaine James' story is one shared by many Idaho veterans, it reminds us that not everyone who served in that war carried a rifle. James was among the very few women who served in Vietnam, not as a nurse, but in military intelligence.

It's a job that kept her close to the truth, and to the secrets she still carries with her today.

"I joined the Army to go to the laboratory technology program at Walter Reed, but I never got there," said James.

She never got there because she was meant to do something rare for women at that time.

She enlisted in the Army in 1964. Her path took her to Officer Candidate School, where she graduat

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