Ed Saunders is a retired lieutenant colonel, U.S. Army, and combat veteran who lives in Laurel, Montana. On the centennial year of America’s victory in World War I, he tells some of the epic true stories of intrepid Montana women who served in uniform in that terrible upheaval, mostly as nurses in the Army Nurse Corps. Over 200 of these women served stateside in crowded, understaffed, diseased-filled base hospitals, and overseas in war-torn France, enduring terrible and deadly battlefield conditions. They served an indifferent federal government denying them equality with men. After the war, the women came home alone, unheralded, and mostly forgotten. They faced another battle—a battle for recognition.

Recorded on March 6, 2019 at the Museum of the Rockies as part of the Gallatin History Museum series.