Remembering my mom, the Vet
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
That’s my mom, the Vet, to the left.
She grew up poor and Irish in rural Missouri. She’s the kid who walked two miles to school every day (her parents never owned a car).
After high school, an uncle sent her a bus ticket to St. Louis and money for nursing school. She’d never been so far from home.
She studied hard and dreamed of being a medical missionary. When World War II broke out, she learned of the shortage of nurses and joined the U.S. Army Nurses Corps.
“Maybe I’ll get to see Des Moines,” she thought. The Army sent her to Africa, where she was stationed with the St. Louis University Military Hospital. She tended to wounded soldiers brought there.
She remembered those soliders all of her life. No matter what difficulties she encountered, she would recall the suffering she witnessed and said her problems seemed insignificant by comparison.
The following individuals are known murder victims with ELCA ties killed since Pretty Good Lutherans was started in September 2009: