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Dorothy (Dot) Courtemanche served her country in the US Army as a nurse. She retired as a lieutenant colonel after a 23-year career with assignments at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Denver, Cutler Army Hospital in Ayer, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, DC, and Fort Meade in Maryland. Born in Dedham, she graduated from Dedham High School and later from the Catherine LaBouré School of Nursing in Boston. She trained at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia, where all orthopedic Vietnam War combat injuries were received. Lt. Colonel Courtemanche’s first assignment was in Seoul, South Korea, at the 121st Evacuation Hospital. “It was unbearably hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Many of us wrote home to ask our families to send electric blankets…got monsoons that were brutal…the whole base was flooded…there were six nurses to a hooch (a cinder block building),” she recalled.

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