Colonel Marie Rodgers - 2014
Coronel Marie Rodgers - 2014
Colonel Marie Rodgers - 2014
Colonel Marie Rodgers - Combat Nurse - 2014 Marie Rodgers who was a combat nurse served in the Army Nurse Corp from 1952 until 1978. She left with the rank of Colonel and returned to civilian life to volunteer in the pharmacy at the Veterans Administration hospital in El Paso, Texas. "They unloaded one young man from the evacuation helicopter. Both legs were in a body tourniquet, almost like tights. An IV dripped morphine into his arm. He was quiet, almost peaceful, and did not express pain – probably the morphine. We removed the tight bandage to find both legs practically blown away. Only strips of flesh clung to pieces of bone. We began flushing the wounds, and the doctors went to work on him. He died that night. I think of that to this day, every day. I’ll remember him my whole life." Retired Col. Marie Rodgers related her experience in the 24th Evacuation Hospital at Long Binh, Vietnam in 1966. As a young major, Marie supervised the surgical ward of the hospital. After Vietnam, she returned to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. While there, President Lyndon Johnson presented Marie with the Bronze Star for her actions in Vietnam. http://www.elpasoinc.com/elpasoplus/columns/acsanders/article3e5f41b8-ac3d-11e1-bd94-001a4bcf6878.html
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