i KNOW she did go far away from Camp County TX to training because she once told me that it took her 2 whole days to get home on the train. (the ANC sent girls all over the USA to nurses' training school. wherever there was a vacancy was where they got sent, believe it or not "filling from east to west & then by alphabetical order" ====> sounds just like "fedrul gubmint inteligunce", doesn't it??? = chuckle)
my aunt (who was one of three women who "raised me") once told me that, "St Louis, where i first was, seemed like the BIGGEST PLACE on earth. of course, i was 18YO & had never been farther away from home than about 50 miles!".
note: my aunt said that she was "always saddened" that she, like so many other new RNs, got "sent home to civilian pursuits", instead of being commissioned as 2LT, USANC! (one wonders, NOW, how many girls would WANT to go to a combat zone to be nurses under the common conditions of WWII???)
my hat, like that of most all vets, is OFF to 'our ladies in white". they are all GRAND grrls, imVho.
free dixie HUGS,sw
I have to agree with you about nurses. They saved uncountable lives in every war since WWI. Maybe before, but we just didn’t hear about it.
Did your aunt leave a journal, or any kind of diary? If so, it should be loaded with information. Letters home? Letters FROM people? Even THEY can have information we don’t expect.
I’m trying to leave a trail of crumbs that anyone can follow, after my demise. Who knows what depends on that?