After Clark sent his grandmother’s picture in, I almost decided to put up my aunt’s picture. She didn’t serve during war time, but my picture of her is taken the day she graduated with her nursing degree, wearing her white uniform and cap.

If you have an appropriate picture, Naismith, how about sending it in? We could turn this into a gallery of the nurses in our lives.

She had been an operating room nurse on the west coast, but was transferred to the sticks of Brigham City Utah, when they established a rehab hospital there. That facility later became an Indian School and is now a condo development.

When people shudder in horror at the idea of women being drafted, they should blame FDR for first broaching the idea. In his 1945 State of the Union speech, Pres. Roosevelt called for nurses to be drafted since needs were not met. The House passed the Nurses Selective Service Act, but then the winding down of the war made its implementation unnecessary.