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Hats off to Martha!
I spent 18 months in an Army hospital and got to know my nurses very well and went to some of their homes for dinner and had a place when I needed somewhere to stay.
One thing I got a kick out of was the nursing school caps that the civilian nurses wore (because the Army used both military nurses and civilian nurse employees). The civilian nurses were not required to wear the standard Army nurse cap. And I learned that each nursing school has its own distinctive cap, and that's what the civilian nurses wore, so we had a variety of styles on the ward.
One nurse in particular, Sherry, took a lot of ribbing about her cap--a narrow, frilly, lacy thing with some black ribbon on it (memory's foggy, but it may have been from a nursing school in Louisiana?). Sherry became a good friend, and I thought that was a very cool tradition.
Did I mention that I love nurses?
