On reading today’s poem, “The Graduate Nurse,” by Olive C. Wehr, Keepa’ninny The Other Clark immediately thought of his own grandmother. “Today’s poem could have been written about my grandmother. She completed nurse’s training at the LDS Hospital in Idaho Falls in 1943 as part of the war effort. She cared for severely burned sailors injured in the Pacific, then after the war spent decades as a single, widowed mother in the Labo...
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