January, 2004
Mike Marshall loves his job, but still gets asked by his fraternity brothers when he's going to start his medical residency.
Rick Larango saw the opportunity for job security and a challenge when he opted to switch professions.
Lee Malone had just been laid off as a railroad switch operator when he took his wife's suggestion and joined her in school.
And James Green was an environmental technologist who loved the scientific aspect of his job — but longed for more personal contact.
Today, Marshall, Larango, Malone and Green are all nurses. Full Article
Helen Molony's memory of the dangerous road trip toward the Kasserine Pass in North Africa is just one of many documented in the gripping book, "And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II."
Written by former Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center nurse Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee and psychologist Evelyn M. Monahan, the book explores the battles of World War II as seen through the eyes of nurses like Molony, who served overseas. Full Article