H.R. 1522, The United States Cadet Nurse Corps Equity Act (29 comments ↓ | 4 wiki edits)
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- This bill, or a similar bill, was reintroduced in the current Congress as H.R. 1718, The United States Cadet Nurse Corps Equity Act.
H.R. 1522 would provide that service of the members of the organization known as the United States Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II constituted active military service for purposes of laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
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shirley a harrow
April 23, 2009, 2:17pm (report abuse)Another chance to correct an egregious oversight by our government. 124,000 young women pledged their lives to their country for the duration of WWII,were issued cards with serial numbers, uniforms with insignias and worked as they trained to be nurses. Their staffed the hospitals and prevented the collapse of the health care system on the homefront. Their enlistment enabled graduate nurses to fill the ranks of the dwindling supply of nurses in the Army and Navy to care for our wounded overseas.
Surely if the Alaskan Territorial Home Guard volunteers can be granted veteran services, these forgotten patriots-now in their 80s-must get veteran status NOW.
IFOME
Cadet Nurse
April 23, 2009, 8:23pm (report abuse)Let us "REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR", the beginning of a great LOSS of HUMANITY. May they rest in the "Peace of the Lord". Let us remember "THE UNITED STATES CADET NURSE CORPS MEMBERS", who, as teen-agers enlisted and served This Great Nation's Peoples during the Declared World War II of the Twentieth Century. THANKS!!!
Cadet Nurse
April 23, 2009, 8:27pm (report abuse)God Bless America, now, ever and forever unto ages of ages. Amen
Tegreeny
April 28, 2009, 12:10pm (report abuse)There those of us still living, could use a veterans monetary aid...
saharrow
May 6, 2009, 5:05pm (report abuse)New bill HR1522 needs support. please contact me at sacharrow@gmail.com for ways you can help. See website uscadetnursecorps.com The bill number has not yet been updated but otherwise the info is accurate.
I urge Children, relatives and everyone who believes in justice to help. It feels like now or never!
cadet nurse daughter
June 10, 2009, 10:29pm (report abuse)Since 1996, Rep Nita Lowey has introduced legislation to give equity to WWII US Cadet Nurse Corps members with 7 resolutions being allowed to die in committee. 66 years after US Cadet Nurses first stepped forward to serve, HR1522 was again introduced to give veteran status to surviving members. A Subcommittee AT LAST held a hearing on May 21, 2009. Please don’t let HR1522 die with these honorable women who are ALL NOW between the ages of 83 and 101! Other Public Health Service officials who served in administrative positions over cadet nurses were given veteran status. And in 1977, HR5087 was passed and signed into law giving the non-military WASP (Women's Airforces Service Pilots) veteran status. These women ferried trainer planes from American production factories to domestic military airfields. FOR OVER 20 YEARS, WASP members HAVE received veteran’s benefits and honors after serving under similar conditions as the Cadet Nurses who are being denied. Ask your rep. to co-sponsor.
Bill Volbers
June 23, 2009, 9:28pm (report abuse)My mother, Doris M Gibson, was a proud member of the Cadet Nurse Corps. She trained/served in New Castle, PA, Chicago and Long Island. We have seen the picture of her in her uniform for over 60 years. It is proper and fitting that these (once) young ladies, who served with out hesitation, be granted the status they earned = as veterans.
Cynthia Clark Crocker
July 22, 2009, 4:21pm (report abuse)I am a surviving Cadet Nurse , 83 years old and would consider it an honor to be given Veteran status. I ask nothing except the honor.
isabelle barker
July 25, 2009, 6:06pm (report abuse)I am 84 years old and still am very proud of my time spent as a Cadet Nurse during ww2. I would be proud to be given Veteran status.
Shirley Caswell Harrow
July 30, 2009, 12:26pm (report abuse)Please allwho come to this site:
contact your Representative in Congress and request that he/she co-sponsor this bill. To date there are only seventeen co-sponsors. DIozens are needed before attention is paid!
ww II cadet nurse ANNE
December 18, 2009, 2:11pm (report abuse)Testimony presented before the Veterans sub-committee on May 21, 2009 needs support of our Congressional members. Congress needs to officially recognize these women's delayed acceptance into the Veteran Status position.
Please contact your House of Representatives to co-sponsor; and Senators (to
introduce a "companion bill).THERE
are 20 co-sponsors ffor the House Bill.
Cadet Nurse Anne
January 1, 2010, 8:27pm (report abuse)To follow up on Yhese women. On May 13, 1944, 95,000 young women were inducted into the United States Cadet Nurse Corps in a Nation-wide ceremony. At Fort Worth, Texas
Library, CApt.Jack Jones of Fort Worth Army Air Field presided in the Induction ceremony. Speskers on the National Program were Mts. Frances Bolton, sponsor of the Act PUblic Law 74,. Mrs.F.D.Roosevelt,
Sutgeon General Thomas Parran,Niss Helen HAYES, Bing Crosby,and Capt. Burgess Meredith.,At the Ceremony, Watson B Miller, of the FSA, which supervised the Organizarion, reviewed the History of the Corps. The FWAAF Band played under Keith L. Wilson's direction. Present at the ceremony were Dr. Grover Kempt of the Public Health Service, Lt. Commander W.T. Gtiswald of the Navy Medical Cotps. and Directors of the Hospital Nursing Schools. Civilian Hospitals were assigned to train these women because it was cheaper. Support these women by contacting your Congresssional Legislators. Thank you. .
Cadet NUrse Anne
January 1, 2010, 8:30pm (report abuse)Hope to see this Bill enacted into Law for the Benefit of these Cadet Nurse Corps members.
Carolyn Thomas
March 10, 2010, 8:48pm (report abuse)Cadet Nurses of WW2 should have veteran's status
Carolyn Thomas
March 10, 2010, 8:50pm (report abuse)Cadet Nurses of WW2 should have veteran's status
CaDET NURSE ANNE
April 2, 2010, 9:42pm (report abuse)PLEASE CLICK ON LINK lEGISLATIVE
HEARING HR 1522 AND HEAR THE CADET NURSE PRESENTATION BEFORE THE VETERAN AFFAIRS' SUBCOMMITTEE ON DISABILITIES AND MEMORIAL IN BEHALF OF THE WWII U.S. CADET NURSE CORPS MEMBERS TO BE OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED AS THESE U.S. VETERANS ON MAY 21, 2009.
M J Ekstrand
April 10, 2010, 3:32pm (report abuse)Cadet Nurse of WW2 --
Trained in Providence, RI
Served at USVA Hospital,Bronx,NY
Served as Ship's Nurse, MSTS
Veteran's status would be an honor.
cadet nuse anne
April 10, 2010, 8:07pm (report abuse)ARE THERE ANY OUT THERE, U.S.A. PERSONS,THAT MAY KNOW WHY THE MILITARY INDUCTED THE YOUNG WOMEN INTO THE UNITED STATES CADET NURSE CORPS ON MAY 13, 1944? AND THESE CADET NURSES ARE NOT OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED AS "UNITED STATES VETERANS".WOULD APPRECIATE AN ANSWER TO A MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION....GOD BLESS THEM ALL.
priscilla de pari shaheen
April 11, 2010, 5:06pm (report abuse)Trained at St. John's Hospital in Lowell, MA. I have a few classmates who are still alive. My E-mail is pshaheen@aol.com.
I am grateful for the educational opportunities I received because of that service. Why not recognize the corps while a few of us are still here?
Nikki VandiviereSvolos
April 15, 2010, 10:53am (report abuse)I am the daughter of a Cadet Nurse who trained at Nathan Littauer Hospital in Gloversville, NY and Marcy Psychiatric Hospital in Utica, NY. She then worked at John Hopkins in Baltimore, MD. It would be most appropriate for her to feel the pride of actually being considered a VETERAN who served her country.
Maxine Menke Kolkmeyer
June 28, 2010, 10:34am (report abuse)I was a Cadet Nurse. I trained at Madison(WI) Methodist Hospital. Three Cadets from Methodist were sent to Camp Carson Colo. and were discharged from there when the war ended in 1945. I would like to stand with the veterans when invited at patriotic events.
There are 4 Cadet Nurses living in the retirement residence with me.
Dtr of Pennsylvania Cadet Nurse
July 28, 2010, 8:11am (report abuse)My mom is 88. We are educating ourselves about HR1522 so we can try to schedule a meeting with our US Congressman. Glad this effort is again underway.....are there any Republican Co-Sponsors yet?????
Dtr of Cadet Nurse
September 10, 2010, 7:23pm (report abuse)It's time to give these gals their recognition. Thank you to all of you who are working with your members of Congress....we are new to the cause and have been in touch with our MOC...we hope he will support the Bill 1522 as a Republican!
Thank you Shirley and everyone!
Shirley Anne Harrow
November 5, 2010, 2:01pm (report abuse)More and more former US Cadet Nurses and many daughters of these patriotic women of WWII ate being heard at meetings held by different organizations throughout the South Shore area of Boston MA.
In addition, I placed a blurb in the Harvard Health Study Newsletter and received letters and emails from former US Cadets in cities across America including Hawaii.
The first Republican Representative: Leonard Lance from NJ signed on as co-sponsor saying that this is a bi-partison issue; the US Cadet Nurse Corps deserves recognition soon. It's wonderful to see so many comments from different people on this site.
Does anyone know the Secretary of Defence? I believe he could declare the USCNC to be Veterans and circumvent the whole congressional process.
Shirley Anne Harrow
November 5, 2010, 10:06pm (report abuse)What is the lame duck House of Representatives to do?
Suggestion: A smart Representative would rescue HR 1522: The United States Cadet Nurse Corps Equity Act of 2009 from its usual graveyard in the House Committee on Veteran Affairs, load it with co-sponsors and bring it before the House for a unanimous "aye" vote. Then on to the Senate! Quick before it's too late for everyone- especially the surviving members of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps who are now eighty plus years old. Go down in history as having recognized, and corrected a grievous oversight. Barry Goldwater championed the WASP of WWII in their quest for Veteran status in 1977.
Who will champion the United States Cadet Nurse Corps in their quest for veteran status in 2010?
emh
January 3, 2011, 3:09pm (report abuse)my mom is a past nurse cadet corp grad who has spent many years as a terrifc and knowledgable nurse. I want her to be recognized, she gave it all and continues to this day at age 84. PLEASE! SEE THIS THROUGH!
emh
January 3, 2011, 3:11pm (report abuse)mom-grad of Jersey City Med Cntr, RN!
Lexanne
January 30, 2011, 7:37pm (report abuse)My mother was a member of the nurse cadet program and a graduate of St. Luke's Hospital in Bethlehem, PA. We both appreciate all of those who have tried to recognize these forgotten angels. Let's get this enlisted corp the recognition they deserve before they it becomes a posthumous recognition. Thanks!
Charlene Jane Orr
February 13, 2011, 1:40am (report abuse)My mother, Katherine Jane Rickes Orr enlisted, graduated and served on the home front, Class of 1947, Vassar Brothers Hospital. She was proud of her Cadet Nurse Status, and wanted to see Veteran Status. She passed away, Jan. 2009. Thanks to Thelma Robinson, the author of 3 books about the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps has provided a legacy for the 124,000 enlistees. I, too am making sure The U.S Cadet Nurse Corps does not fade. Please make this bill a priority for those survivors,and those passed to be honored.