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Illinois nurse tends war wounded

By Chris Lehman

Mendota, IL – Almost 19-hundred U-S soldiers have been killed in the war in Iraq. But more than 14-thousand have been injured. One northern Illinois nurse spent two months this summer treating many of those wounded soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. WNIJ's Chris Lehman spoke with her.