Heroic Measures: 2017-08-20

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Contribute your WWI Army Nurse to National USA Centennial Site!

Nurses of Base Hospital #19 on board their ship to France, May 1917.

Many thanks to the National WWI Centennial website for publishing my article about how I became interested in the ARMY NURSE CORPS and those brave women who volunteered in 1917 and 1918!
Please go here to read it all: 3025-four-questions-for-jo-ann-power.html

Send me your memorabilia and photos of our family and friends who joined the Corps to:
joannpower2@gmail.com

AMAZON buy link for HEROIC MEASURES:

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Gates to American Cemetery in Paris, Suresnes American Cemetery where many nurses are buried.
(Photo by Jo-Ann Power)

Jo-Ann Power, Curator of Army Nurse Corps Site

Ward uniform, left, and service cape, right.
Jo-Ann Power photo from Ft. Sam Houston exhibit, 2013.

WWI ambulance, 1917
Jo-Ann Power photo from Ft. Sam Houston Medical Museum exhibit, 2013.

Group of Nurses folding bandages, WWI
Fort Sam Houston Medical Museum photo by Jo-Ann Power, 2017.

About HEROIC MEASURES

In 1917, more than 22,400 American women left their homes, their families and their positions in hospitals and private homes to join the Army Nurse Corps. More than 10,000 of them sailed to foreign countries, slept in hammocks, trudged through knee-deep mud, washed their hair in their own helmets to nurse more than a million American soldiers wounded and sick from battle.

This autumn on the 99th anniversary of the declarations of war, my new novel HEROIC MEASURES debuts and tells the story of these women's dedication. Here in this blog, I supplement that reading experience with facts from my own extensive research.

Do enjoy!

Do marvel at those who served in thousands of capacities all over the world and who afterward declared that its horrors must end-and that the Great War must be "the war to end all wars."

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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Contribute your WWI Army Nurse to National USA Centennial Site!