{"id":1419,"date":"2011-12-26T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/americainuniform\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2011-12-16T20:52:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T20:52:37","slug":"remember-martha-raye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/americainuniform\/2011\/12\/remember-martha-raye.html","title":{"rendered":"Remember Martha Raye"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following article on Martha Raye is from a subscriber who comments:<\/em>
\n“The most unforgivable oversight of\u00a0 TV is that her shows were not taped. This is a great story about a great woman. I was unaware of her credentials or where she is buried. Somehow I just can’t see Brittany Spears, Paris Hilton, or Jessica Simpson doing what this woman (and the other USO women, including Ann Margaret & Joey Heatherton) did for our troops in past wars. Most of the old time entertainers were made out of a lot sterner stuff than today’s crop of activists and whiners.”<\/p>\n

The following is from an Army Aviator who takes a trip down memory lane:<\/p>\n

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It was just before Thanksgiving ’67 and we were ferrying dead and wounded from a large GRF west of Pleiku. We had run out of body bags by noon, so the Hook (CH-47 CHINOOK) was pretty rough in the back. All of a sudden, we heard a ‘take-charge’ woman’s voice in the rear.<\/p>\n

There was the singer and actress, Martha Raye, with a SF (Special Forces) beret and jungle fatigues, with subdued markings, helping the wounded into the Chinook, and carrying the dead aboard. ‘Maggie’ had been visiting her SF ‘heroes’ out ‘west’.<\/p>\n

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We took off, short of fuel, and headed to the USAF hospital pad at Pleiku. As we all started unloading our sad pax’s, a ‘Smart Ass’ USAF Captain said to Martha…. Ms Ray, with all these dead and wounded to process, there would not be time for your show!<\/p>\n

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To all of our surprise, she pulled on her right collar and said…..Captain, see this eagle? I am a full ‘Bird’ Colonel in the US Army Reserve, and on this is a ‘Caduceus’ which means I am a Nurse, with a surgical specialty….now, take me to your wounded. He said, ‘yes mam…. Follow me.’<\/p>\n

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Several times at the Army Field Hospital in Pleiku, she would ‘cover’ a surgical shift, giving a nurse a well-deserved break.<\/p>\n

Martha is the only woman buried in the SF (Special Forces) cemetery at Ft. Bragg .<\/p>\n

Hand Salute! A great lady…<\/p>\n

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