George Holding: “After Mary Louise Roberts' father died during the Depression, she worked in a laundry, then she trained as a nurse.…”

“After Mary Louise Roberts' father died during the Depression, she worked in a laundry, then she trained as a nurse. After Pearl Harbor, she joined the Army. Two years later, she waded ashore at Anzio, Italy, to set up a field hospital on the battlefield. The hospital tent was bombed, killing three nurses. Three days later, German artillery killed two more nurses. As shrapnel tore through the burning tent, Mary Roberts calmly supervised surgeries on wounded soldiers. Mary was called ``the Angel of Anzio,'' and was the first woman to win the Silver Star. Today, Mr. Speaker, all you have to do is open the newspaper to see the cruelest kind of barbarism has been reborn in the world--ISIS burns people alive and sells women in slave markets in Syria and Iraq. On Veterans Day, let us remember Mary Roberts and all our veterans, and, by the grace of God, offer a prayer of thanks for the soldiers whose courage keeps us safe at home, every day. ____________________”