Cadet Nurses

BEST NEWS is the introduction of a companion bill S. 1948 to grant "veteran status" to the World War II United States Cadet Nurse Corps members by Senator Harry Reid and Senator Thomas A. Daschle on November 24, 2005. Senator Daschle introduced the Senate Concurrent Resolution 72 on October 5, 2005, commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Cadet Nurse Corps.

IT IS NECESSARY to send letters again to your Congressional Representative because of the new bill H.R. 476 introduced January 29, 2005 to grant "veteran status" to the World War II U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps members. On July 8, 2005, the House Resolution 515 was introduced commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Cadet Nurse Corps.

MAKE COPIES OF THE COVER LETTER AND THE NEW CONGRESSIONAL LETTERS and send them to the Cadet Nurses you know, or for whom you have mailing addresses, your family, friends, and "veteran's" organizations.

CALL YOUR LIBRARY to obtain local Congressional members' addresses and their telephone numbers.

MAIL LETTERS to your local Congressional addresses as the Washington, D.C. mail is still being sanitized; thus causing delays in delivery.

PLEASE FOLLOW-UP WITH PHONE CALLS every few weeks if no immediate reply is received from your Congress members.

PLEASE SEND COPIES of all response communications from your congress members to:

The Honorable

U.S. House of Representatives

Washington, D.C 20515

Dear Representative

The Honorable

US Senate

Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Senator

I am a United States citizen and a voter asking you to co-sponsor and vote for H.R. 476, the United States Cadet Nurse Corps Equity Act of 2005 to grant "veteran status" to World War II United States Cadet Nurse Corps members; and also to co-sponsor and vote for House Resolution 313 commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the establishment of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps and voicing the appreciation of the House of Representatives regarding the service of the members of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps during World WarII.

The United States Cadet Nurse Corps was a uniformed service created by congress during World War II as Public Law 74 to provide essential service by supplying nurses for military, federal government, and essential civilian hospitals for the duration of the war.

Cadet Nurses took and signed a Pledge and were given an ID card with a serial number. They were under Commissioned Officers USPHS Surgeon General Thomas Parran, and Lucile Petry, who served as Director for the Division of Nurse Education.

The Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Services (PHS) is an all officer organization comprised entirely of health professionals. It is one of the seven uniformed Services of the United States. Others are the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, AND THE Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

President Harry S.Truman issued Executive Order 9575 declaring, "The Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service to be a Military Service and a Branch of Land and Naval Forces of the United States during the period of the present war." (off. June 28, 1945).

The Cadet Nurses wore clinical work uniforms with the Cadet Nurse insignia and wore dress uniforms. The buttons and insignia on the dress uniforms were the same as those on the USPHS.

Commissioned Officers' uniforms. The insignia and dress uniforms were not to be worn by any unauthorized person under the same Federal penalties provided by the Act June 3, 1916 for the unlawful wearing of the uniform for the U.S. Army, Navy, or Marine Corps. (Public Law 248, March 4, 1944).

PLEASE RESPOND IN WRITING AND LET ME KNOW IF YOU WILL CO-SPONSOR AND VOTE FOR H.R. 476 AND/OR HOUSE RESOLUTION 313. (H.RES.313).