Show RED CROSS NEWS Chapter chairman cha Ward Vard C. C hot Hoi brook received the following state state- statement ment m nt from the Pacific area As you know May 12 is Flor Flor- Florence Florl Florence ence We Nightingales Nightingale's birthday and also National hospital day It would seem most fitting that those chapters which were active in nurse recruitment during the war or 01 have had a volunteer nurses nurse's aid program should mark the day this year with a tribute to the nurses who have served in the armed forces to the members ol ot the volunteer nurses nurse's aide ai e corps who helped make such service pos possible possible possible sible and to the civilian nurses who not only worked long hours at their regular duties but also gave generously of o their time and an energy in training nurses nurse's aides and instructing classes in Red Hed RedCross RedCross Cross home homo nursing TRIBUTE T TO TIlE THE VOLUNTEER NURSES NURSE'S AIDE CORPS COInS OF TIlE THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED lIED CROSS Nurses Nurse's aides may rightfully be proud of their wartime record They stepped voluntarily for for- forward forward ward to meet he need when they were called upon They poured hours of service into inte civilian army and veterans veteran's hos hospitals hospitals health agencies and blood donor centers These nurses's aides shared deeply the experience of a nation I at war war the the toil the anxiety the pain and the glory Just what service the nurses nurse's aides will render during the com corn ing months and years will depend I to a great extent upon upon the needs need of their particular communities Looking forward into the future I envision a continuing desire des le in ir I each community to Carty on this thi I service of mercy mercy bringing bringing to the th battle for life health and happiness ess es in each in community the same sarn spirit Florence Nightingale brought to the battlefields of or the th Crimea |