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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Jim Witty / The Bulletin
February 10, 2006
Of all the fateful days so far in Ruth Franklin's 85 years of life, one during the snowy December of 1944 stands out.
She was a young nurse at a U.S. evacuation hospital in Liege, France, when World War II hit home with a frightening thud. To that point, she'd been on the move as part of an....