Col. Maggie Jones, deputy chief of nurses, Air Force, Col. Sandra McNaughton, senior nurse analyst, Defense Health Agency, Maj. Gen. Dorothy Hogg, deputy surgeon general and chief, Air Nurse Corps, and Capt. Deborah Roy, deputy chief of nurses, Navy, salute the Nurses Memorial during a wreath laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia for National Nurses Week, May 8, 2017. Erected in 1938, the granite statue honors the nurses who served in the armed forces in World War I.

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