WEBVTT 00:00:02.529 --> 00:00:04.529 It's a real pleasure at this time to present a personality well known, 00:00:06.950 --> 00:00:12.957 particularly in the capital city of Arizona. Lieutenant Matilda, Yannis 00:00:12.990 --> 00:00:16.767 Shannon's was for a long, long time. A part of the very efficient office 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:22.627 staff of dr joseph Madison Greer, widely known in phoenix and all over 00:00:22.660 --> 00:00:28.177 Arizona for his brilliant practice in the art of medicine, particularly 00:00:28.210 --> 00:00:33.086 surgery. Lieutenant Janice. How long have you been away from home? 16 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:38.777 months. Does it seem a long time? It did at first, but doesn't anymore. Do 00:00:38.810 --> 00:00:42.366 you dream about going home or have you sort of put that out of your mind? 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:46.086 I did it first. But not anymore. Because I don't want to go home until I'm 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:49.516 through over here. What have you missed most of all, since you've been 00:00:49.549 --> 00:00:55.976 away from the state's beautiful clothes. Color good, beautiful shoes. And 00:00:56.009 --> 00:00:59.177 funny hats. Well, to tell you the truth, some of the ladies at home are 00:00:59.210 --> 00:01:03.137 missing those things too. I don't think they can possibly miss them more 00:01:03.170 --> 00:01:07.007 than we do. The business of shoe stamps is one of the funniest things that 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:10.757 we have to contend with at home. We don't have trouble with our stamps 00:01:10.790 --> 00:01:15.887 because we get ji shoes. The same shoe that the men wears. We have worn 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:20.076 out in the field and in the hospital and it's been the most satisfactory 00:01:20.109 --> 00:01:25.236 shoe up till now. Now we can wear silk stockings if we have them or not. 00:01:25.269 --> 00:01:29.346 How long can you get them at all here? We cannot. But some of us built 00:01:29.379 --> 00:01:33.837 some over I incidentally brought six pairs of nylon stockings. Alright 00:01:33.870 --> 00:01:37.117 goodness! Alive! You'll be the envy of everyone who hears your voice in 00:01:37.150 --> 00:01:42.747 that statement? Well, I don't know after being in New Guinea close doesn't 00:01:42.780 --> 00:01:46.607 last as long over here. Is the dead in the state? Well, did you bring 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:49.686 anything else over here with you that you've been able to use? Yes. I 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:57.346 brought a lot of things including a down quilt which I will never use. And 00:01:57.379 --> 00:02:01.007 it is quite a problem to know what to do with things that we brought. 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:05.197 Incidentally, I'm using the last soap that I brought from the States. 00:02:05.230 --> 00:02:08.527 Well that should be a cue for somebody to send you some soap. I think this 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:13.837 is an excellent way to put the story across. No, I can't quite frequently. 00:02:13.870 --> 00:02:18.906 Fine. Did you miss anything else? Particularly when you came in here? Yes. 00:02:18.939 --> 00:02:24.577 All of us Miss Children. When we first came we didn't see any Children 00:02:24.610 --> 00:02:29.897 and we used to miss Children's voices. Their laugh and watch them play. We 00:02:29.930 --> 00:02:33.606 have been here for about five months before we saw any Children and then 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:38.066 we had to go to a different island to see some fuzzy wuzzy babies. Are 00:02:38.099 --> 00:02:42.096 they anything like our own Children at home? They're still Children. They 00:02:42.129 --> 00:02:47.096 laugh and they laugh, they cry, they play and they have tantrums and the 00:02:47.129 --> 00:02:51.066 parents act very much like they do in the States. Maybe they're not as 00:02:51.099 --> 00:02:56.106 spoil in our terms but there still isn't the mortality among them pretty 00:02:56.139 --> 00:02:59.606 high. It's supposed to be very high. Some of the missionaries say that it 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:05.237 has been extremely high, especially the last few years. Are you satisfied 00:03:05.270 --> 00:03:08.666 with the work that the hospitals are doing in this area decidedly so 00:03:08.699 --> 00:03:12.386 patients get very good care. We have some of the outstanding men in the 00:03:12.419 --> 00:03:17.987 country. We have men, their professors of surgery, professors of medicine 00:03:18.020 --> 00:03:25.436 from some of our outstanding universities and uh after anybody has seen 00:03:25.469 --> 00:03:31.376 surgery and has been this close contact with surgeries. I feel that I have 00:03:31.409 --> 00:03:36.967 there are getting swelled care. Are the Arizona boys coming through here, 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:42.237 recognizable or do you? Oh yes, we recognize them. At least I do because 00:03:42.270 --> 00:03:49.517 I'm the only Arizona girl in our unit and as far as Arizona nurses, I've 00:03:49.550 --> 00:03:52.267 met two or three. 00:03:52.300 --> 00:03:55.057 And does everyone seem to be reasonably happy in spite of the 00:03:55.090 --> 00:04:00.726 circumstances. Everybody thinks about home talks about home and they don't 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:04.916 talk about how they want people to sacrifice. They talk about home as home 00:04:04.949 --> 00:04:08.827 wanting to them when they were in the States and they want their families 00:04:08.860 --> 00:04:14.506 to live the same life and enjoy the same things that they did when they 00:04:14.539 --> 00:04:17.536 were there themselves. Any special message you'd like to send home while 00:04:17.569 --> 00:04:21.806 we're at it? No. Just that I'll be very happy to go home. But as I said 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:27.356 before, I am not interested in going home until it's over over here and go 00:04:27.389 --> 00:04:30.827 with the rest of the GI's. Well, I think that's a characteristic attitude 00:04:30.860 --> 00:04:34.596 and to be admired friends. We've been talking here very informally with 00:04:34.629 --> 00:04:39.447 Lieutenant Matilda Yannis, whose former association with the office of dr 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:42.846 joseph Madison Greer in phoenix, Arizona made her well known to many 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:47.387 definitions and many Arizona's. I can promise you that she looks fine and 00:04:47.420 --> 00:04:52.939 seems to be very happy. Thank you very much, Lieutenant. Thank you. Howard.