In this episode of America’s Veteran Stories with Kim Monson, we delve into the incredible life of Layla Morrison, a 98-year-old former Army nurse who shares her vivid recollections from World War II. Layla’s story takes us from the peaceful mountains of Georgia to the front lines of Normandy, France, where she played a pivotal role in caring for wounded soldiers. Her firsthand accounts offer a poignant reminder of the courage and resilience shown by those who served. Join us as we explore Layla’s remarkable journey through the challenges of war, her experiences with the Army Air Force, and
World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and her other wars and conflicts. America’s fighting men and women strapped on their boots and picked up their guns to fight tyranny and stand for liberty. We must never forget them. Welcome to America’s Veteran Stories with Kim Monson. These stories will touch your heart, inspire you, and give you courage. We stand on the shoulders of giants. Here’s Kim Monson.
SPEAKER 10 :
Welcome to America’s Veterans Stories with Kim Monson, and be sure and check out our website. That is AmericasVeteransStories.com. And this show comes to you because of a trip that I took in 2016 that accompanied four D-Day veterans back to Normandy, France, for the anniversary of the D-Day landings in World War II. and return stateside, realizing that each of our military, each veteran has their own story, and we need to hear them, we need to record them, we need to archive them, and hence America’s Veterans Stories. And I want to say thank you to Tricia Hood. She is a sponsor on this show, and it is in honor of her husband, Donald Wood, who was a Vietnam veteran. We did a Thank you so much for having me. And she passed on just recently, July 16th, a week after her 100th birthday. And she’s a real lady. And I thought, let’s rebroadcast one of her shows. And Producer Steve, I’m just so honored to bring this to the air today.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I think since you’ve been doing this, you actually interviewed her twice, at least two shows that made the air. And you gave me the dates for those and say, we want to use one of these for today’s thing that we’re doing here and now. And to me, it’s like once I was going back through the archive to get him, it was like taking something that was precious off the shelf and making sure you treated it right.
SPEAKER 10 :
And it is a fabulous interview. And again, she was just really a lady. And I have to say, Steve, it is such an honor to sit across the table or on the other side of the phone line with these veterans. And I have to say, it’s really changing my life. It gives me a great regard or respect for this American idea and those that have been willing to put their lives on the line. It is… It really has changed my life, Steve.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I get what you’re saying. And, you know, in what we do the other five days of the week, recently you did a podcast with two individuals and you were kind of lamenting where the particular subject area you were dwelling on and how it just is so visibly marching towards. I don’t even know what you call it anymore. It’s just tyranny. Tyranny. It takes your breath away. So it makes you go back to. And people like this lady that we’re going to hear from today, what they were doing was a direct assault on tyranny and pushing back, like we like to say. And I don’t know, I have so much more respect for them.
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One of the things that she said during the interview is she said, we knew we were going to win, but yet she said we also knew, and I was asking her about the preparation for D-Day. She went onto the beaches 30 days after D-Day. She said, but we knew that there were going to be a lot of young guys that were going to lose their lives in doing so, but they did it anyway because They saw something bigger than just them. And that is why these stories are so important. So I just want you to really enjoy this interview with Layla Morrison, a true lady. And she’s gone now, passed on. But we wanted to do this interview and rebroadcast it in honor of Layla Morrison. Here you go. Layla Morrison, welcome to the show. Thank you. It’s very nice to be here. Well, you have quite a story. You are going to be 98 this year, right? I know I shouldn’t share a woman’s age, but I think that’s pretty incredible.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, I’m proud of that. That’s fine, and you’re correct. The 9th of July, I’ll be 98.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. Well, your life story is an amazing story. Let’s talk a little bit about that. Where did you grow up, Layla Morrison?
SPEAKER 06 :
In Blue Ridge, Georgia, a nice little mountain town right up on the Tennessee North Coast. a beautiful area.
SPEAKER 10 :
And how old were you when or when did you hear that Pearl Harbor had been bombed?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I was in school, in Mercy School over in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And we heard that on the radio, of course.
SPEAKER 10 :
What went through your mind, Layla Morrison?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, first was unbelief. I just couldn’t believe that an enemy would come in and bomb like that. How cruel. And there was no way I could even imagine the influence that would be on me. So what did you do then? When did you decide to get into the Army? Well, it was after we graduated. The armed forces took nurses. In fact, they were begging for them. But you had to be a graduate, and you had to have passed your state boards.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, so when did you decide that you would join the Army?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, we had a recruiter that came out and told us how badly they needed nurses overseas and, of course, here in the States. But he was from the Army, and, of course, he was trying to get people to volunteer for that. And he told us if we didn’t volunteer that we may be drafted later on. And that would be an insult to the nursing profession. So you signed up? Yeah, we believed, and several of us volunteered for the Army Air Force.
SPEAKER 1 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, the Army Air Corps, excuse me. It is the Army Air Force. Like you see in 43, 44, it was Air Corps.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, you have a pretty amazing story. Where did you go for basic training, and what did that look like, Layla Morrison?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, that was right here in Denver. Coming from Georgia and thinking about way out west in Denver, Colorado just sounded very exciting. So we volunteered and asked if we could come to Larry Field here in Denver.
SPEAKER 10 :
And what was your basic training like? I imagine it was preparing for, you know, helping our soldiers in battle, yes?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, it was. And it was, I’ll tell you, it was very different than any school that I’d ever been to before. And it was… It was nice to learn about it and learn about the Army. I didn’t know anything about it, of course, before. But that was nice to learn it. And the only thing, the calisthenics was sort of different for us. And learning the cadence, you know. And we had a sergeant teaching us, and I think he figured we were quite a problem. But we finished and all passed.
SPEAKER 10 :
Where did you go after basic training then, Layla Morrison?
SPEAKER 06 :
I went to Keesler Field, Mississippi. That’s a field still in existence down at Biloxi, Mississippi. And we were there for a few months with more training, of course.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
And getting used to the routine of Army hospitals.
SPEAKER 10 :
So then when did you end up being shipped off to Europe?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, from Keesler Field I went to Santa Ana Army Air Base in Santa Ana, California, and we learned more there. But we were just there a short time because they picked 16 of us and transferred us to the ground forces. but it was a big Army camp with the ground forces. And we learned a lot there, a lot. We were suspicious that we were going overseas. We didn’t know which direction, but we learned a lot. We had learned about the gas mask, when to put it on and how. a gas bomb and then we learned how to live in a tent which we did the whole time we were across Europe our hospital was in tents and we didn’t have to pitch the tents the GI’s did that but we had to learn how to live in one and work in one And we learned how to abandon the ship by going over the side with a rope ladder. It’s a rope that was made in squares, and you swung from one to the other with taking turns with your hands to swing down the side. And for a smaller boat, this was the side of the ship you would be going into a boat.
SPEAKER 10 :
Wow. So, wow. So then is that from there, is that where you went then to Europe? Yes. Okay. Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
We went, we crossed the Atlantic and landed in Scotland, went on down to northern England, and then eventually on down to New Hampton, which is down on the, And across and landed. Well, we didn’t really land. We couldn’t land in France on the Omaha beachhead because it was too full of mines and sunken ships. So that’s when we used the rope ladder to swing off of the side of the ship. little boat that opened up in the front and went up on the beach and opened. You know, the front falls down and you walk out.
SPEAKER 10 :
That sounds like a Higgins landing craft, isn’t it? Was it a Higgins landing craft?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. So you are in England and so you’re watching all of this preparation for D-Day with our guys, correct, Layla?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, yes, the Air Corps was stationed in the U.S. You know, they flew across the channel. And there were a lot of Americans, a lot of, seemed like everything, crazy. because they were very nice to us very considerate and we were told if we were there and were invited out for tea it was alright for us to go into the home while we were there just a few days but not to accept the crumpet because the British suffered greatly from So not to take their food.
SPEAKER 10 :
So not to take their food then, right, Layla?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, because they were short of food.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, okay, okay. Okay, so June 6, 1944, do you remember that morning, Layla Morrison? You mean of going across the channel? Well, when the guys, when D-Day started. Oh, of course.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think the whole. But yes, we knew about it, and we were saying prayers because we knew how it was going to go. We knew we’d win, but many, many young, very young men paid with their life to make it possible.
SPEAKER 10 :
So during that time, it was, what, about 30 days before you then went over to Normandy. Is that right, Layla?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, somewhere along there.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. So here you are, this young Army nurse that’s going into Normandy, France, with basically just, you know, what you have in a bag, right? That’s it, right?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, we had what we called a duffel bag, and that was all of our supplies. But it wasn’t as bad as it sounds because, see, we went right down and joined our hospital unit, which was 118th evacuation, and we wore combat clothes all the time. Army dress clothes. We just had one outfit, the same, several outfits, but the same. All of it was combat, and even the combat boots that the fellas wore. Ours were just like them.
SPEAKER 10 :
Wow. And so when you got to Normandy, where did you go after that then, Layla Morrison?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, we were in Normandy. And there was a truck, two and a half ton trucks is the way we traveled. And that’s the way we were that way all over England and all over Europe. There were 20 of us. And the doctors traveled in the two-night-time truck. And we started out there in northern France off of the Omaha Beach. And we ended up almost a year later down on the Czech border. And see, we were a mobile unit. We didn’t stay in. As they moved forward, and we only fell back twice. Two times we crossed the line because we had orders to go over. So when we crossed the line, they said, oh, no, we’re not situated here yet. So you go back, wait a few days, which we did.
SPEAKER 10 :
How far back from the front lines were you normally?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I don’t, I can’t really say any. I don’t really know except that we heard the, we could hear the guns, the hack-hack. And the Germans had a big gun that was called the 88. And it made such a big noise that when one of them went off, the roof of our tent would go poof. that the roof was going to blow off, but it never did.
SPEAKER 10 :
Wow. Layla Morrison, we’re going to go to break. We’re going to continue this conversation. But before we do that, I want to say thank you to one of my valued partners and a sponsor that I greatly appreciate for America’s Veterans Stories is Hooters Restaurants. They have locations in Loveland, Westminster, and in Aurora on Parker Road, and great specials Monday through Friday for lunch. And for happy hour, great place to get together with your friends to watch the sporting events and just have some great food. In particular, their fish and chips and their nachos are delicious. I hear that their fish tacos are quite good as well. So again, thank you to Hooters Restaurants for their sponsorship of the show. Be right back.
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Thank you so much for listening to America’s Veterans Stories. We are rebroadcasting some of the shows that we have recorded in the past because we have these amazing guests and these amazing stories, and we need to hear them. And so we thought that it would be a great idea to rebroadcast some of these so that you can hear our history and know our history because it is so important. So again, this is something that was recorded earlier, and thank you for listening.
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God bless America.
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Welcome back to America’s Veteran Stories with Kim Monson. I’m thrilled and honored to have on the line with me Layla Morrison. She will be 98 years old this July. She was an Army nurse in World War II and one of the most gracious women I’ve ever had the opportunity to talk with. So Layla Morrison, it’s so great to have you on the show. Well, thank you very much. It’s great for me to be here and tell my story. Well, let’s continue on. You have explained that you are not far from the front lines. And so what was a typical day like for you and your other Army nurses, Layla Morrison?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, if you can imagine… You see, our hospital unit was like a big emergency room, only it was in tents. And we only took care of the one. go back. If he thought they would live that long, he’d send them back. But the ones that he didn’t think would make it, he sent back to the tent behind him. And that was shock and pre-op. And that was the tent where I worked. And we tried to stop hemorrhaging can’t go to surgery in shock so we tried to bring him out of that and we gave him at that time there was no way to preserve whole blood you see that was back in the early 40s the next best thing was plasma blood plasma and we gave many many many units of that
SPEAKER 10 :
So how many hours a day did you normally work?
SPEAKER 06 :
In the middle of a war, there’s not much to do except work and then rest. So we worked at least 12 hours. And, you know, we had an abundance of patients that maybe we didn’t expect those of us that were asleep.
SPEAKER 10 :
work well it was all work and sleep and moving we moved often and moving so that’s wow um and wasn’t the um the army was moving pretty quickly through europe at that time wasn’t it yes yes uh it
SPEAKER 06 :
And as the months passed, we were down on the We were supposed to meet them there, and that was in May of 1944. And so while we were there waiting for the Russians, they came, but they were late. And it was just a few days after that, the DE Day, victory in Europe. And we all rejoiced, very thankful.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, a couple of things. You met your husband sometime in this whole time. Tell us a little bit about that.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s kind of a story all of its own. We met in Caboo, Texas, and he was with the Patton’s Third Army in the 30s. They were going across Europe, too. And we did see, he knew which hospital near the driver’s room. And we had a little sign we put out in front of the first tent on the number of our hospital. And he would see that name. with a bunch of them, and he would stop and say hello. He didn’t have time, and I didn’t either, to have a conversation. But he just… And it was nice. And he wanted to be married. We could get a three-day pass and go back to Paris or one of the other countries that had already been liberated. But I didn’t want to, and I told him I wouldn’t marry until the life of the war was over. Well, to finish this story, we were both housed with General Hodge, the 1st Army, but we were traveling along together with the 3rd. And they told us while we were down there in Czechoslovakia after VE Day that we were seasoned troops and we would be the 1st. And we received 30 more days of training, and then we’d be shipped out to Japan, one of the islands on the invasion of Japan. And they estimated the casualties at a million and a half at that time.
SPEAKER 10 :
A million and a half casualties for trying to take Japan? I’ll say that again. You said they estimated that the casualties would be one and a half million? Yes. Oh, my gosh. Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, they did. Wow. But we, my unit, all the nurses and the doctors, too, really, we hated to leave the good old U.S. again. And, of course, that would have been so different, jumping from island to island, I’m assuming. But they were going in on… And we teased each other and said, let’s cut our finger or do some little something so we won’t have to go. But we were teasing. All of us. We would have gone, but the chaps… Wow. We couldn’t believe it, but they did. And you see, they didn’t celebrate D.E. Day in the U.S. at the time in May because we were still at war. And so they said, we won’t celebrate until the Japanese surrender. two days, which happened while we had just been home a couple of weeks. And so my husband-to-be wanted to meet. He was from Nebraska, the big red state, and he wanted to meet in Chicago. So We met him, and he wouldn’t take no for an answer. He said, you promised, you promised. You said as soon as the war was over. So he managed to get a marriage license, and at that time you had to have a Wasserman test in order to, the 17th of August in 1945.
SPEAKER 10 :
Did your sisters like him? Was that the first time they had met him?
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, no. We had met, you know, in Texas and Europe.
SPEAKER 10 :
But your sisters, had your sisters met him?
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, no. No, no. They had and one was not in favor. And so my husband was the type that didn’t take no for an answer very easily, and he worked very hard to get it done. But the marriage lasted 65 years, and we have three children and grandchildren and some great-grandchildren. A husband… Nine years ago. And that’s when I moved out here because I have a son and two grandsons and great-grandchildren here in Colorado.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. And where did you live those 65 years then, Layla Morrison?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, we started out in Texas. very long, a few months, and my husband had an opportunity to have a job offered to him up in Council Bluffs, Iowa. That’s just across the river from Omaha, Nebraska. And so we moved up there, and he worked for that car dealership. And He didn’t like, he didn’t enjoy that very much. And the radio station in Denison, Iowa was for sale, which is about 70 miles from Omaha. And so he bought that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Wow, what an amazing life. That’s great. And it’s so exciting that you’re here in Colorado. We were introduced by Brad Hoops, you know, who’s done so much great work for our veterans. He’s interviewed so many. Yes, he is. He truly is. And with that, Layla Morrison, you received an award from the French government. Tell our listeners about that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes. Well, that was a year ago, the 2nd of February 2019. And there were, I was the only woman, but there were five other veterans who were men. And we all received it here in Windsor. LA, he flew back and presented the medals. And we were all just very proud. As I received mine, I felt that I really didn’t deserve it because so many of them had worked We were there to save lives, and that’s what we did. And I did that to the best of my ability, and I do believe that we did save lives. shot down and taken prisoners, different jobs. Two were tail gunners, and not too many tail gunners made it home, but they did. And so it was And Brad worked very hard to secure those medals for us.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes, he did. Yes, he did. I’m very proud of him. Most definitely. Layla Morrison, let’s go to break. We have one more segment. This is Kim Monson and America’s Veterans Stories. I’m talking with Layla Morrison, an Army nurse in World War II. So we’re going to go to break. We will be right back. The Center for American Values is located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. And it was founded for several reasons. One, to honor our Medal of Honor recipients. And they do that through over 160 portraits of valor of Medal of Honor recipients. But additionally… They are teaching these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism through many of their educational programs and also their On Values presentations. So for more information about the center, go to AmericanValuesCenter.org. That’s AmericanValuesCenter.org. The official Marine Memorial is located right here in Colorado in Golden at 6th and Colfax. It was dedicated in 1977, and it is time for a facelift. And the USMC Memorial Foundation is working diligently to raise the funds to make that happen. And a great way that you can honor our military, to say thank you to those people who have put their lives on the line or have given their lives for our freedom, is to support the USMC Memorial Foundation.
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Thank you so much for listening to America’s Veterans Stories. We are rebroadcasting some of the shows that we have recorded in the past because we have these amazing guests and these amazing stories, and we need to hear them. And so we thought that it would be a great idea to rebroadcast some of these so that you can hear our history and know our history because it is so important. So again, this is something that was recorded earlier, and thank you for listening. Thank you so much for listening to America’s Veterans Stories. We are rebroadcasting some of the shows that we have recorded in the past because we have these amazing guests and these amazing stories, and we need to hear them. And so we thought that it would be a great idea to rebroadcast some of these so that you can hear our history and know our history because it is so important. So again, this is something that was recorded earlier, and thank you for listening. Welcome back to America’s Veterans Stories with Kim Monson. And as many of you know, this show precipitated from a trip. that took four D-Day veterans back to Normandy, returned back to the States, realizing that each veteran has a story. It’s unique, and it was important that you get to hear them. And so on the line with me is Layla Morrison, World War II veteran, an Army nurse that was right behind the front lines working to save lives. Layla Morrison, it’s so good to get to chat with you. Thank you. It’s a pleasure to be here with you. Now, as the war was winding down and you were so near the front lines, you had told a story to me previously that kind of took my breath away regarding some of the prisoner camps there. Could you share that with our listeners, please? Sure.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, we had prisoners, even as patients. Very, very few, really. But we saw many, many of them, well, just from all over, because coming back, we were we had a prisoner as a patient, we treated them just like we treated our own boys. And we figured that it wasn’t their will to be there. A lot of them didn’t believe in the Nazi party, but they had to take part. And so, but we… We work mostly with our American prisoners.
SPEAKER 10 :
But we treated these prisoners, to your knowledge, very well.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes. Well, they were hurt and they had a lot of…
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. Okay. Now, what about the concentration camps? Did you have any experience with that?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, we did. We had a lot of conversations with prisoners. after they had been liberated and they told us many, many stories. It was stories that you knew they were telling you the truth, but it was so hard to believe. It still makes chills go over me when I think of some of them. And we were on our way home. and pitch our tents. And we came up by Weimar, Germany. And we didn’t realize it, but we camped on a little hill in Florida, and they came up and told us that Buchenwald was right across the street from us. and we were trying to get settled for the evening. And they came later and said, now you girls get to bed early tonight because you’re going to have to get up early in the morning because the nurses and the doctors have to go down to Bougainville and help out. next morning. And as they came up to pick us up, they said, you girls are not going, so relax. We said, well, what’s going on, you know? So they said, well, They have to wait until tomorrow. So that’s what we did. And tomorrow came and they picked us up in our two-night-done truck and took us down there. And we met a Czechoslovakian man that had been One day the troops came in and told them that he was going with them. And he couldn’t call. He couldn’t tell anybody. They just took him. And he didn’t know if his wife was alive or his shooter or where they were. He’d been brought to Bugendahl. And he took us all through the camp. the crematory. Down underneath, you know, they had ice quarters down there where the German troops lived. And as we came out of the crematory, thing to take to realize and the people that had gone through the torment there telling you about it and you knew it was the truth and I just looked at it as we came out and I thought what in the world would you call a place like this And I figured I’d call it a factory of murder because they told us how many six and a half million Jews and German political prisoners they had taken care of. And this cremator had 12 of them. like fixed on the bottom and then it was fixed on the top. They had a big wall there where they had stored a lot of ashes and had them in bottles. I don’t know what they planned to do with them. But anyway, I hope we never have anything like that ever again. for those boys that sold millions, that lost their lives and what they went through. And I have met with two people over at Colorado State that came here to And one had been a prisoner there at Buchenwald, and the other one was on down close to Poland. And they told about their experience there and how they were blessed to even be alive. But it’s hard to believe it still is. And I think of the price that our country, our people… of living now. How thankful we are. can just imagine and be thankful.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, you know, it really is something that I think that we take for granted, particularly what your generation did to stand against tyranny and evil. And you saw firsthand what it did. And, you know, one of the things that you wanted to make sure that people understood was just how thankful and grateful we should be every day for the freedoms that we have here in America.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, indeed. And, you know, you can’t blame people, especially Americans, for taking it for granted because they’ve never known or never, a lot of them have never even heard of such treatment. And, you know, to see it firsthand, you just don’t ever forget it. It changes your whole life.
SPEAKER 10 :
It definitely gives a different perspective.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes. And I recently, in June of 19, went back to Normandy with a group of… There were 14 of us, 13 men. We went back for the 60… I mean… the 75th little tired yeah the 75th anniversary of the e-day there i know of a e-day there at normandy and what a what a deal that was it was great to be able to be there see all the after 75 years. And meeting the French people that have not forgotten. They thanked us and thanked us over and over for not only saving many French lives, but for saving their country. And they’re teaching the children who’ve been through two and little children, and they knew all about the war and told us, thank you, thank you. They had learned that in English, and, of course, we… People up there in northern France, they really couldn’t. They’re respectful, and they’d stand back when they’d see us. Of course, we had our World War II caps on, and they stood in line as far as you could see for our autograph on some cards that they gave us with a little history of each one of us.
SPEAKER 10 :
And Layla, when I was there in 2016, traveling with four D-Day veterans, I saw the same thing. The people of Western Europe, Normandy, France, they stood in line and they, you know, was thanking all of you for… And you mentioned something that is so curious to me that’s going on here in the United States, and that is that our young people are not being taught about what happened in World War II. I was at a junior high school making a presentation and was telling them a little bit about this. And I said, how many of you have heard of Normandy and D-Day? And not one student raised their hand. And I said, how about the movie Saving Private Ryan, which is a movie about storming Omaha Beach? And nobody raised their hand. And so that’s why we do this show. And I know that it, you know, it’s an effort to have a long conversation about this. But Layla Morrison, I’m just so thrilled that we have this for people to listen to and for kids, for people to share with their children. So thank you.
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Well, thank you and thank you because like I say, I’m thankful to… A few people I think it wouldn’t be worth it because it’s not easy to go through it again. You know, it’s just so real to you and still is that it takes a lot of energy to tell about it.
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I know that it really does. And just so just a couple of other things. Recently, you were honored at an avalanche game. And I think Brad sent me something over on that. And so tell our listeners a little bit about that.
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Well, I’ll tell you, I don’t know much about hockey, but I know it’s fast and it’s rough. But I was so excited. After I’d been there a few minutes, the arena was full of people, and they were awesome. And they just showed all kinds of respect and honor that they possibly could. And I’ll just always thank them for the privilege of being there because I had to leave early to get there. was very very respectful couldn’t have been any nicer and it was a real thrill for me and i just thank everyone that had something to do with it well layla morrison this has just been a great honor to have this conversation thank you so much i just greatly appreciate it Thank you.
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Well, thank you, Layla. And so this is Kim Monson signing off with America’s Veterans Stories. God bless you and God bless America.
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Thank you for listening to America’s Veterans Stories with Kim Monson. Be sure to tune in again next Sunday, 3 to 4 p.m. here on KLZ 560 and KLZ 100.7.
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In this episode of America’s Veteran Stories with Kim Monson, we delve into the incredible life of Layla Morrison, a 98-year-old former Army nurse who shares her vivid recollections from World War II. Layla’s story takes us from the peaceful mountains of Georgia to the front lines of Normandy, France, where she played a pivotal role in caring for wounded soldiers. Her firsthand accounts offer a poignant reminder of the courage and resilience shown by those who served. Join us as we explore Layla’s remarkable journey through the challenges of war, her experiences with the Army Air Force, and
