SPEAKER:  Capt. Marj Graves, Army Nurse Corps

Marj Graves joined the Army Nurse Corps during her final year of nursing school in 1961. Marj volunteered for Vietnam where she served as a head orthopedic nurse with the 24th Evacuation Hospital in Lons-Binh. During her tour of duty, she was selected as the nurse for a two-person medical team to accompany both the Bob Hope- Christmas Tour in 1971 and the Sammy Davis, Jr, USO Show in 1972.  Marj has been featured in Heather Stur’s book, Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam Era, and in the KET documentary, Kentucky Veterans of the Vietnam War: In Their Own Words. She was selected as Kentucky’s Vietnam Veteran for USA Today’s 2012 Veterans Day issue, is a recipient of the Daughters of the American Revolution Distinguished Citizen Medal.  She has also been inducted into both the Kentucky Veterans Hall of Fame and the Fern Creek High School Hall of Fame.  She is a retired Occupational Health Manager from UPS and is devoted to the healing of unseen battle wounds.  She has been married to husband Bob for more than 46 years, have two married daughters, 5 grandchildren, and reside in Louisville, Kentucky.