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NURSE KNOWS WHAT BONDS WILL DOCrosses 8 Times in Hospital ShipBy EDWARD B, SABINEYou too have a fight at home.*‘Those bonds you buy will save another life—will save.some American boy the crippling: loss of anarm or leg.”And the speaker, L.t. Esther A. Schisa. of 971 Westmoreland av., knows what she is talking about,SHE KNOWS bccause she’s crossed the Atlantic. Ocean eight times in a hospital ship bearing the broken bodies of thousands of your boys/’She knows because she’s heard these same boys cry in pain, cursing the horrors of war. and yet display a fortitude that brought tears to her eyes.She knows because two of her close friends with whom she joined the Army Nurse Corps in December, 1943. have since given their lives for their country.REMEMBER. many of fhe*e wounded, war-weary* bo3*s are from Syracuse,” Lt. Schisa reminded. “We had at least one Syracusan on every trip home. They always looked me up and I loved them for it.These boys have to be helped—LT, ESTHER A. SCI USAand you’ve got to buy War Bonds to do it.If you could only see them— with both legs gone—with arms and hands missing, unable to eatwithout aid, forced to rely upon others for life itself. . , .'“WELL, VM SURE the War Bond sale then would be an over-*whelming success. It has to go 'over the top/ because we have towin this war—and in a hurry” The Syracuse nurse has two personal reasons’' for her victory iight.The first is a score she is settling in the death of her two close friends and fellow nurses. Miss Kathryn McCarthy and Miss Rita Erad.THE GIRLS were killed in anairplane crash in India.They died bringing relic? and comfort to 'our boys/ We in Syracuse should honor their memories with renewed vigor both on the war and home fronts,” Miss Schisa said. • • ■Also enlisting with Ll Schisa and the two. girls was another Central New Yorker. Miss Helen Carr, of Geneva. Miss Carr, now a lieutenant, is stationed on the same hospital ship as Lt. Schisa. All four were members of the(Concluded on Page S5, Column 67
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Syracuse Herald Journal
Syracuse, New York, US
Sun, Jun 24, 1945
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