Dear Fellow Listers, This is a message about Cushing Hospital....Framingham Mass. My grandfather was married May 16, 1917 in Holy Angels Church...Upton Mass. My grandfather Enlisted with the ARMY into WWI. My dad was born in 1922.My grandfather made it through WWI. and came home to a really good job on the railroad. My dad grew up through the Great Depression.... When WWII broke out my dad enlisted into the ARMY....My grandfather told me stories as I grew up....He said...Maureen...I have only one child AND only one son...My son ENLISTED into WWII and was ORDERED to the FRONT LINES(which usually meant you did NOT come back) SO my grandfather told me he had NOTHING to loose if my dad died in Germany....SO my grandfather...RE...Enlisted....THEY both made it through WWII.... When my grandfather came back from WWII he went into the VA Hospital in WEST ROXBURY....and became an RN....He then furthered his education and became a doctor....My grandfathers family BUILT CUSHING HOSPITAL in Framingham Ma....It was first BUILT to HOUSE the "BOYS" who came back from WWII without LIMBS....There were quite a few BARRACKS TYPE HOUSING... HOUSES BUILT with connecting UNDERGROUND TUNNELS.... These Tunnels were Built for the many soldiers that came back from WWII without LImbs.....They could visit each other using their wheelchairs through the tunnels that connected each house. My grandfather was a neurology surgeon there with expertise in the losing of limbs DUE to WAR....CUSHING HOSPITAL WAS first OPENED to VETERANS that LOST LIMBS IN WWII. I went to CUSHING HOSPITAL in Framingham AFTER it RE-OPENED for the ELDERLY or CANCER VICTUMS....I went through the State to be a NURSE of Geri-Actric NURSING.....I would walk those LONG hallway TUNNELS and be so PROUD KNOWING my GRANDFATHER was there BEFORE me and ALL THE GOOD he had done there. Maureen _________________________________________________________________ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/
Wow, Maureen, you have much to be proud of, I will think of you when I go by Cushing on my way to Framingham. I have gone that way for years because my Dr.'s were all near that end of town and the hospital also! My family has many wonderful servicemen going all the way back to the Indian Wars here in Mendon and all the way through. My grandfather was a prisoner of war in Germany in WW1 and shot through the temple, he had breathing problems from the "mustard gas" they were exposed to. My Uncle died in the Solomon's in WW2 but 2 others came back all in one piece. Another served in the Korean war and to many in Viet Nam. My Oldest son served in the U.S. Navy during peace time but saw overseas duty and the rescue of the Yacht Brilliantine from N. Korean waters. That is why I am so proud of our country and all who fight to keep us free, God bless all of our men who join the service to fight for all of us! Helen