101 Year Old WWII Vet Makes A New Year’s Resolution

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Portland, Or. – A Northeast Portland woman who spent three years as an Army nurse during WWII says her wish for 2017 is to life her life as fully as she can and for as long as she can. Jean Wojnowski will turn 102 on May 14th.

She was a maternity ward nurse in Cleveland, Ohio when  Pearl Harbor was bombed. She was mobilized the next month and spent two years at a hospital in Melbourne, Australia and another year in the jungle of New Guinea. She remembers First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited them in Melbourne. She says they treated soldiers there, mostly for malaria and says a Japanese POW was kept there under guard.

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