This Day in History: Frances Slanger, U.S. Army Nurse
On this day in 1944, a U.S. Army nurse pens a letter to the American G.I. Frances Slanger’s words would ultimately be published as an editorial in the Stars and Stripes newspaper.
It meant the world to our boys!
“These Soldiers had been fighting every day since they landed,” historian Bob Welch writes. “They had lost their sense of humanity, lost most of their sense of dignity, and lost their sense of hope. Suddenly, along came this nurse who wrote this letter . . . and it absolutely melted their hearts and renewed their sense of hope.”
Winning World War II was personal for Slanger. Her parents were Polish Jews who had fled to the United States. Thus, Slanger knew exactly where she wanted to be when she graduated from nursing school and was commissioned into the Army Nurse Corps years later: Nursing soldiers who were helping the persecuted.
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