Fort Bragg Stories: Former Army nurse remembers hospital visitor
Mary Ellen Shugart served two tours as an Army nurse in Vietnam during the 1960s and early ’70s. She treated hundreds of soldiers, but the memory of one young man at Fort Bragg stayed with her through the years.She treated the soldier in the intensive care unit and recovery ward at Womack Army Hospital in 1966.Injured in Vietnam, he’d been flown back to the U.S. for treatment of an abdominal wound. He was heavily sedated the night a young woman showed up at the hospital […]
