...Combat Battalion. He suffered burns over about 20 percent of his body after gunpowder exploded while he was working in an artillery bunker. Gubrud was flown to a hospital in Germany, and then to the Brooks Army Medical Center in Texas.

...Nursing in Galveston, Texas. As a professional nurse, she worked with Veterans Administration Nursing Service, Brook Army Medical Center, Audie Murphy Veterans Hospital and the University of Texas Nursing School as an educator. She was a writer...