Sarah Bradley Fulton - "A Heroine of the Revolution"

Born Christmas Eve 1740 in Dorchester, Mass., was Sarah Bradley, also spelled Bradlee. She lived to be 94 years old, & in her lifetime she would become a political activist & leader, serve as a filed nurse during the American Revolution, & even entertain George Washington & the Marquis de Lafayette. In 1762 at age 21 she married John Fulton & lived in Medford, Mass., along with their children, but would often travel to Boston, 6 miles away, to visit her brother, Nathaniel Bradlee & his wife. Nathaniel was a carpenter who used his shop as a meeting place to discuss politics with his friends & Sarah was introduced to & inspired by other patriots. Sarah became one of the Daughters of Liberty who boycotted English tea in response to the Townshend Acts of unfair taxation. She became a leader in the group & boycotted all English products. Sarah devised the plan to disguise the protesters of the Boston Tea Party as Indians & served as a nurse during the battle of Bunker Hill. She also served as a spy for the Continental Army, & carried messages across battle lines, often in the dead of night at great peril to herself. Sarah died on November 9, 1835 in Medford Mass where there is a DAR stone marker honoring Sarah Bradley Fulton.

Was going through heritage Minutes and found this one for Tommy.

I'd like to give a mention to all the female nurses in the world of which 99% are because women have that caring gene in them. I was watching the antique road show and somebody had fetched in her relative's WW1 medals and a cow bell. The lady who won them was called Sister Marriot and she got them serving in the British army during the war in salonica. It was a particularly horrendous war and the sister would wander out into danger looking for the wounded to attend and she would carry the cow bell with her and ring it so that the wounded out there knew she was coming and could call her. No thought for her own safety, only the wounded. Wonderful, I'd loved to have met her. She came back in a sorry condition and died just a couple of years later.

I was once in hospital, getting repaired, and I had been catheterised because I couldn't get up. When you have one of them stuck up your Jap's eye you are prone to infection, so they keep watch on the colour of the piss and if it has bits in it. I remember one nurse came to my bedside and looking at my bag of piss hanging there she said to me.... oh, you have beautiful urine! Now that's a compliment only a nurse could give, but I'd have preferred... you're a bit of alright, can I jump in with you?

There were two careers no school counselor ever recommend for me.  One was hairdresser (one look at my dolls confirms this) and the other was nurse (ask my kids about this one). While I do possess some of that caring gene, it generally applies after the medical care has been administered.  I wholeheartedly endorse your regard for nurses as being remarkable women, Major.  Thank you for reminding us of their worth.

I was once in hospital, getting repaired, and I had been catheterised because I couldn't get up. When you have one of them stuck up your Jap's eye you are prone to infection, so they keep watch on the colour of the piss and if it has bits in it. I remember one nurse came to my bedside and looking at my bag of piss hanging there she said to me.... oh, you have beautiful urine! Now that's a compliment only a nurse could give, but I'd have preferred... you're a bit of alright, can I jump in with you?

I had problems with my catheter after my last surgery and had to go back to the hospital by ambulance to have it seen to. If it is plugged more that 6 hours it can kill you and I was over that mark went I was taken to Emerge.

Of course then they have to run all kinds of blood work tests when that happens.

Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. March 1822^[1] – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends,^[2] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the movement for women's suffrage.

Born enslaved in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman was beaten and whipped by her various masters as a child. Early in life, she suffered a traumatic head wound when an irate overseer threw a heavy metal weight intending to hit another enslaved person, but hit her instead. The injury caused dizziness, pain, and spells of hypersomnia, which occurred throughout her life. After her injury, Tubman began experiencing strange visions and vivid dreams, which she ascribed to premonitions from God. These experiences, combined with her Methodist upbringing, led her to become devoutly religious.

In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, only to return to Maryland to rescue her family soon after. Slowly, one group at a time, she brought relatives with her out of the state, and eventually guided dozens of other enslaved people to freedom. Traveling by night and in extreme secrecy, Tubman (or "Moses", as she was called) "never lost a passenger".^[3] After the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed, she helped guide fugitives farther north into British North America (Canada), and helped newly freed enslaved people find work. Tubman met John Brown in 1858, and helped him plan and recruit supporters for his 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry.

When the Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy. The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, she guided the raid at Combahee Ferry, which liberated more than 700 enslaved people. After the war, she retired to the family home on property she had purchased in 1859 in Auburn, New York, where she cared for her aging parents. She was active in the women's suffrage movement until illness overtook her, and she had to be admitted to a home for elderly African Americans that she had helped to establish years earlier. After her death in 1913, she became an icon of courage and freedom.