Posts tagged Europe
My Mama Wore Combat Boots!
My Mama Wore Combat Boots!

Cyndee Schaffer, the co-author of the memoir, Mollie’s War: The Letters of a World War II WAC in Europe, asks, “How many of us remember this childhood taunt: ‘Your mama wore combat boots’ when we were in elementary school?

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Joanna BroussardFriends of the Edgewatr Library | Virtual ProgramMollie's War, WW II, World War II, Edgewater Village Chicago, Friends of the Edgewater Library, Edgewater Branch Library, Normandy, combat boots, Europe, Paris, Eiffel Tower, England, France, Germany, VE-Day, Cyndee Schaffer, Mollie Weinstein Schaffer, medical secretary, letters, 300, WACs, Women's Army Corps, U.S. Armed Forces, U.S. Army, Veterans Day 2020Comment
Florence Nightingale Visits Edgewater For National Nurses Week
Florence Nightingale Visits Edgewater For National Nurses Week

We all know that Florence Nightingale is the person who gave us our modern day nursing profession but yet if asked what else we know about her, most of us would be hard pressed to offer thoughts about how she came to be this heroine of nurses.

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Joanna BroussardEdgewater Branch LibraryFlorence Nightingale, Megan Wells, Florence, Aunt Patty, William Edward Nightingale, Friends of the Edgewater Library, Edgewater Library, Betty A. Barclay Community Room, National Nurses Week, Istanbul, Scutari, Turkey, Sidney Herbert, England, EuropeComment