Thank you Sean Kirst, from the The Buffalo News, for telling the incredible story of our resident Marcia, a dedicated nurse and role model for so many. #nursing #buffalonews
Le Moyne College journalist-in-residence, Buffalo News columnist, writer, public speaking
On the #FourthofJuly, at 94, Marcia Barnes, a pioneering nurse from #Buffalo who worked closely with wounded veterans after #WWII, recalls how her dad, MIA after being wounded in ##WWI, finally made it home - and became a model for the empathy and energy that drives her whole life, even now. Marcia has lost her eyesight to glaucoma - but the power of her stories, and the clarity of a higher form of vision, led the CNY Nurses Honor Guard to pack a meeting room at Loretto at the Nottingham, near Syracuse, during a recent ceremony that honored Marcia's groundbreaking work ... and profound understanding ... involving vets who endured severe wounds in the war. By the way, Marcia's grandparents lived on Humboldt Parkway, she remembers vividly when horseback riders used that park, before it was destroyed for an expressway - and one of her great dreams is having it rebuilt. My The Buffalo News column: https://lnkd.in/gNjRrtwA
Le Moyne College journalist-in-residence, Buffalo News columnist, writer, public speaking
3wIt was a joy, a privilege, to tell this tale!