{"id":82919,"date":"2018-11-17T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T15:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82919"},"modified":"2018-11-16T22:48:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T02:48:32","slug":"they-also-served","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82919","title":{"rendered":"They Also Served"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Airman First Class William “Pits” Pitsenbarger was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously after he sacrificed himself to save numerous wounded soldiers. (Air Force)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You may remember one alleged LTC by the name of Margaret deSanti, whose claims of this and that seemed out of bounds to reasonable people, and decidedly far-fetched to others of us.<\/p>\n

You can revive your memories of deSanti at the link below to her 2014 claims that she was a nurse on medevac helos in the Nam, and \u201crepelled\u201d out of helicopters, when there is zero record of her service. https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57300<\/a><\/p>\n

That was put up on TAH in 2014. There is no record of her service, period. There is, as noted in the original article, only one person received the Silver Star since WWII, and that was Leigh Ann Hester. It is easy enough to check on such things. Yet, Ms. deSanti claims that she received that award.<\/p>\n

Ms. deSanti, who cannot even produce a correct salute, has literally spit in the faces of the women who did serve before she tried to add herself to their honored group.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve gathered together a bit of information about various things that happened during World War II, such as women who were in nursing schools being recruited to serve in the US Cadet Nurse Corps, to replace nurses who joined the Army and were deployed to the various theaters. You can find that history at the\u00a0site below in some of the stories that these ladies left behind. <\/span><\/p>\n

This year \u00a0is the 75<\/span>th<\/sup> Anniversary of the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps. Some of them did go on to serve in the Army Nurse Corps once they finished their nursing degrees. Their stories are at this link: <\/span>https:\/\/uscadetnurse.org\/weremember<\/a><\/p>\n

Some of them are rather poignant, as they were written by children and\/or grandchildren after the Nurse Corps member passed on.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps’ 75th Anniversary is going on now, in 2018.<\/p>\n

“They saved lives at home, so others could save lives abroad.”
\nThe website is a compilation of information about the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps\u2014the nation’s first integrated uniformed U.S. service corps\u2014<\/em>which fulfilled an urgent need for nurses during World War II. At that time many nurses were called overseas to military service, and other women were attracted to the defense industry, while understaffed civilian hospitals in the United States were on the verge of collapse.<\/p>\n

Nursing and Medicine During World War II<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are many links at the ceufast.com page, including links to WWI history of nursing.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/ceufast.com\/blog\/nursing-and-medicine-during-world-war-ii<\/a><\/p>\n

The following article includes references to the struggles of black women to be accepted as nurses during WWII. Some 500 black women served in various theaters during that War.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.americannursetoday.com\/three-red-cross-women-persevered-african-american-history-month\/<\/a><\/p>\n

In the end, they all served.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s lift a glass to all of these women who filled in for their departing counterparts and served at home, and for the those who joined the Navy and Army Nurse Corps and were sent overseas, some of whom did not make it back home, and for all those who followed in their footsteps in Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, OIF\/OEF, and whatever has followed since then.<\/p>\n

They also served, all of them.<\/p>\n

Ms. deSanti, to my knowledge, did not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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