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    "ocrText": "Returned\nJune 27, 1942.\nA.R.E.MAIL.ROOM\nmiss Federici-\nRECEIVED No.\nNational American Red Cross\n1942\nWashington, D.C.\nReferred'\nMy Dear Miss Beard:\nnursing\nI followed your suggestion some time ago and applied\nfor admittance to the 56 Evacuation Unit which was being formed\nat Fort Sam Houston or rather at Baylor University at Dallas Texas.\nMy physical examination found me overweight and I was rejected.\nI am on a diet that was given me at the Mayo C linic\nsome time ago and I know that I shall fall off rapidly and to no\nphysical disadvantage. I would like so much to be of service to\nour boys any where in the world that I shall be needed. I will go\nto Panama, Iceland, Greenland, Australia, Ireland, Africa or anywhere.\nI am a high school graduate. St. Mary's Academy, NotreDame In\nI am a college graduate, St. Mary's College NotreDame Ind. Witha Major\nin Nursing Education and a Minor in Education. I am a graduate nurse\nhaving graduated from Seton Infirmary in Austin Texas in I922. I am\nregistered in Texas No. 7324 ( I942) New Mexico. and\nIndiana 3804 for I942. I entered the red cross this year my No. is\nH.D. 4396.\nI know that I am forty years of age but I do not look or feel\nit. I have spent my Nursing yeras in a convent and only left in order the\nthat I could be of some service to my country. I can not believe that\nmy experience, health and education that I am useless at a time like\nwhen we must all pull togeather. I have a brother in the Pacific and and\nanother in the army just about ready to go overseas.\nIf I can not serve as a Nurse could I serve in some other\ncapacity. Please let me know soon.\nMost sincerely,\nElizabish Wright\nElizabeth Wright, R.N., P.S.\n9/7/12 carbony not 9/7/42 a\nin\nRead"
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