Show AMERICAN FIGHTING MEN ARE BEST PATIENTS IN WORLD american fighting men are the best patients in the world according to members of the U S army nurse corps army nurses who have attended sick and wounded american soldiers in the field and ana in the big army hospitals at horn hom agree that no matter how seriously the soldiers soldier haxe have been injured they never complain emphasizing the morale of soldier patients an army nurse who has served in africa and italy said that often the first words murmured by a man brought into a field surgery was an apology for the fact that he had been unable to shave and wash often they just ask the army nurses to speak to them to stand beside their beds tor for a few moments they seen an american woman in months and the knowledge that they are being cared for by army nurses speeds them or on the road to recovery and while the army nurses praise the morale of the soldiers the men are equally to pay tribute to the nurses private john J taggart a combat en gimber duneer from new york city injured by a booby trap during a pre invasion rehearsal in england told how a nurse saved his sight when a piece of brass lodged in his left eye before I 1 went to sleep I 1 heard a a in medical edical officer commend her ingenuity taggart said she had placed me flat in bed and propped my head in place ty by putting sandbags sandbars sand bags on either side so I 1 move it the doctor isaid she saved my sight because if I 1 had moved my head the piece of metal in my eye would bould have ripped it and they have saved it the army needs more registered nurses immediately registered nurses under 43 45 years of age can secure 0 full information lr I 1 about securing a commission i in the U S army nurse corps by visiting their nearest red cross chapter or by writing the surgeon genera washington 25 D C |