Laymen have always been inclined to regard a bullet or a metal fragment in the heart as a sentence of death. And until World War I, most surgeons agreed. Sometimes they could remove the offending ...
There’s quite a story to the banged-up, old bullet that a World War II nurse with strong ties to Lake and Sonoma counties just donated in person to the national museum at Pearl Harbor. And you can be ...
Alice Beck Darrow, a 106-year-old former Navy nurse who served during World War II, poses for a photo with family members, Navy Sailors, and National Park Service rangers. Darrow donated a bullet to ...