This is the other picture of dad in uniform. Probably early in his enlistment since he mustered out as a Tech 3 Sergeant, three chevrons/rocker and a T in the center. Mom kept this picture and the one on page one displayed for years.
There are pictures in the gallery in the DOD Fire Department and the the Nursing Staff wish I could add more on those parts of his life but I don't remember if I was ever told.
Dad's Certificate of Citizenship. On it his age is given as 44, he is married and has a tattoo mark on his right arm. If the age is correct that puts his year of birth in 1892. He told the US Army the year was 1899 and he told the preacher it was 1908. This gets better as it goes along. Married? Never heard a word on that one. Wonder if it's true? Do I have step kin? As far as I know this information was kept from my mother. Someone told me that listing yourself as married speeded up the process of getting in since you "had a family to support." I will probably never know the answer to these questions. As far as the tattoo goes I never saw it, but I was too young to remember. Wonder what it was? Mom never mentioned it.
Dad's New York nursing license. I don't know anything about his career at Bellevue. He spent fifteen years there before the war. He also worked at a "Home for Incurables" and I'm not sure that wasn't a second job or a week-end thing. There are a few surviving pictures but the postcard with the name of the place didn't survive. I often thought of writing Bellevue to ask for his records but I don't think they have them or would take the trouble to look. It seems strange now but at the time male nurses were common.
Dad's fire training certificate.
