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    "title": "O'Connor, Carolyn Lucille",
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        "logicalDate": "1945-05-02",
        "month": 5,
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        "month": 12,
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    "ocrText": "July 24, 1944\nNOTE FOR FOLDER\nMrs: 0'Connor, who is now taking care of a friend in New York, came\nto Washington to see Colonel Blanchiel& and Miss Beard about the possibility of\nbeing reinstated in the Red Cross Nursing Service and obtaining an appointment\nwith the Army Nurse Corps. She saw Colonel Blanchfield first, who sent her over\nto see Miss Beard. In her absence I had a long talk with Mrs. 0'Connor.\nc\nShe is a highly nervous, emotional type of individual who talks inces-\nsantly. She feels very strongly that she is being made to suffer unnecessarily\ne\nfor a very minor incident. She kept emphasizing the fact that she was not nearly\nas bad as many of the people in Hawaii and cannot understand why she should be\nbarred from military service and membership in the Red Cross Nursing Service when\nothers are not. I feel that she took this assignment in Hawaii primarily in order\nto escape from her husband from whom she obtained a divorce just prior to leaving\nfor Hawaii. She indicated that her husband was a very heavy drinker and that was\nthe reason for their breaking up, as he became abusive, but that she used to drink\nwith him on frequent occasions.\nShe is very anxious to re-establish herself in her profession and felt\nthat the only way to do so was by trying to force us to re-establish her in Red\nCross Nursing Service and to obtain a military appointment. I tried to make her\nsee that in order to fre-establish herself, she would have to prove that she was as\ngood as the best instead of not as bad as the worst, which is the thing that she kept\nboasting about. I would consider this nurse very undesirable from my casual observa-\ntion of her, and feel that she should not be considered for any sort of appointment\nwithout very careful further investigation. She seemed to be relieved to have an\nopportunity of taking the situation over and I believe will make an effort to do\ndivilian nursing by way of proving that she can conduct herself in a proper fashion.\nB\nGertrude S. Banfield"
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