The sentiment shared here, this license tag seen in Boise, Idaho, is what you experience in Washington, DC near The Vietnam Wall, where the Vietnam Women's Memorial, sculpted by Glenna Goodacre, must be seen to be fully appreciated. The history of nurses in service to our military dates back to the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. However, it was not until the Civil War when nursing became an organized, integral part of our military. It was then that our government officially recruited women to serve as nurses, with prominent figures like Clara Barton emerging, later founding the American Red Cross. Twenty thousand nurses would serve in WWI, with fifty-nine thousand in WWII. The Korean War saw the implementation of mobile surgical hospitals, with nurses serving on ships, also on hospital trains. It is estimated that seven thousand nurses served in both Korea and Vietnam. With the current high-tech nature of our conflicts, flight nurses have become instrumental in dealing with the care of our military members.