There was another role for the women of the Nurse Corps [during WWII]. They were surrogate mothers. Wandrey writes of working in a shock ward in Sicily and seeing an eighteen-year-old who was just brought in from the ambulance. "I went to him immediately," she said. "He looked up at me trustingly, sighed, nd asked, 'How am I doing, nurse?' I was standing at the head of his litter. I put my hands around his face, kissed his forehead, and said, 'You're doing just fine soldier.' He smiled sweetly and said, 'I was just checking up.' Then he died."
(from The Greatest Generation, by Tom Brokaw)
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