The Greatest Generation… This Noble Band —- Mary Catherine Hampton, Nurse, 44th Evacuation Hospital
Tom Brokaw recounts in his superb book, The Greatest Generation, a story his mother told him of the day Gordon Larsen came into the post office where she worked. Larsen was usually a genial and popular member of their community, but that day he had stopped in to complain about the rowdiness of the teenagers on Halloween the night before. [...]