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For one Naval Air Station Whidbey Island employee, a recent trip to a Florida beach was intended to be a relaxing break. Little did he realize, his presence at the beach that day would significantly impact two young lives.

Fernando Espinoza Jr., an occupational safety and health specialist who works at NAS Whidbey Island’s safety department, traveled to Panama City Beach, Fla., Aug. 12, from Fort Rucker, Ala., where he was attending a safety management course.

Espinoza grew up in El Paso, Texas, and served eight years of active duty in the Navy from 2001 to 2009. He has been serving as a federal government employee on NAS Whidbey Island since 2009 and as an occupational safety and health specialist since 2014.

His relaxing day was abruptly altered when he heard screams for help coming from nearly 150 feet offshore.

“Anyone else would have done the same thing,” he said. “I have three kids myself; Sophia, 5, Jacob, 8, and Dominic 11 years old. I would want someone to help them out if they ever needed it. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.”

“I heard kids screaming,” Espinoza said. “At first, I thought they were just messing around. But then I saw the rip-tide take them under.”

That’s when Espinoza jumped into action, running and swimming about 50 yards to get out to where the two kids were. By the time he grabbed the kids, he was chest deep in seawater. The two brothers, 8 and 9 years old, were trying to get the attention of the lifeguard, to no avail.

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Fernando Espinoza Jr. is credited with saving two children from drowning. on his back and the other under his right arm and headed back to shore with his precious cargo in tow.

The lifeguard said he never heard the screams for help and recognized

Espinoza for his gallantry.

“The lifeguard was a long way off,” Espinoza explained. “By the time I got the kids back to shore, the lifeguard responded.”

As a result of his actions, Espinoza was awarded the Army’s Safety Guardian Award.

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From the left, Bud Day, Robert Davison and Richard King reminiscence during a recent Whidbey Island Search and Rescue reunion. More than 90 former SAR members attended the three-day event.

n Sunday, Sept. 10, around 90 brothers gathered to tell “sea stories,” joke about not fitting into old wetsuits and remember lost colleagues. These men were all members of the Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Search and Rescue brotherhood.

They reunited at the second-ever SAR reunion, after the first one occurred four years ago. Decades worth of former crew mem-

There were even members from the original SAR crew on Whidbey island, such as Bill Cochran who served from 1960-1964.

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Rathbun served from 1974-1977, and his wife Karen helped organize the event. David got a call six years ago from a friend and former crew member about putting together a reunion.

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“Karen ran with it,” he said, and the first reunion was held two years later.

Karen, from Indiana, and fellow SAR spouse Esther Estes, from Hawaii, put together the next two reunions. They plan to keep holding one every four years.

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“I got to meet Mamie,” Nichols said Monday.

Picture a Korean War veteran, one who received a battlefield promotion in the face of harsh conditions and dangers. Or picture someone who dealt with the gruesome realities of war in Vietnam. The image that comes to mind isn’t likely to resemble Barbara Jean Nichols.

She is 95 years old, and not quite 5 feet tall.

In tennis shoes, she seems the picture of a spry great-grandmother who kept the home fires burning during wartime. Nichols, though, is a retired Army lieutenant colonel who traveled the world to serve her country and provide life-saving care.

Her service as an Army nurse took her close to the front lines in Korea and Vietnam, and to Germany and the old Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. At Walter Reed, she once helped take former President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the presidential suite.

By phone from Lacey, where she lives in the Panorama retirement community, Nichols spoke of her wartime experiences. During World War II, she bolted nose cones onto B-17 bombers at a Boeing assembly line in Seattle.

From 1945 to 1947, as part of the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, she studied at Everett General Hospital School of Nursing and Everett Junior College. She was class valedictorian when she earned her nursing credentials in 1947.

Nichols, who has rarely shared what it was like to care for battlefield casualties, is now highlighted as part of an historical exhibit in Olympia, “Korea 65: The forgotten war remembered.”

“This is the first time it’s really been shared,” Nichols said.

Among her quotes in the exhibit is one that hints at what she continues to live with: “When you’re doing your job as a nurse or docSEE NURSE, PAGE 9

Barbara Jean Nichols, a graduate of Everett General Hospital School of Nursing, helped build Boeing warplanes during World War II and served as a nurse in the Korean War and in Vietnam. Now 95, she is featured in a Legacy Washington exhibit in Olympia. (Brian Zylstra / Office of Secretary of State)

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Read Legacy Washington Chief Historian John Hughes’ profile of Barbara Jean Nichols at www.sos.wa.gov/_assets/legacy/barbara-nichols.pdf.

tor, you have to stay calm. When it bothers you is later. It’s the memories that won’t go away. It catches up to you.”

Presented by Legacy Washington, the Korean War exhibit opened last week in the lobby of the Secretary of State’s Office on the second floor of the Capitol Building. It will be on view until July 2018, said Brian Zylstra, a spokesman with the Secretary of State’s Office. The nonprofit Legacy Washington documents stories of people and events in state history. Collaborators include the Washington State Library, Washington State Archives and heritage organizations.

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The rations were terrible, so old, and lots of leftovers from World War II,” she said. For laundry, she said she washed her underwear “and everything else” in her helmet.

Her parents, the late Bernard and Esther Nichols, lived in Everett in 1952 when The Everett Herald reported Nichols had received her captain’s bars while in Korea.

It was 1965 when she arrived in Vietnam. “The equipment was bet-

ter than Korea, but the wounds were worse,” she said. “We got them right off the battlefield, and sent them to a hospital in Japan.”

Nichols, who earned a Bronze Star in Vietnam and retired in 1969, can’t shake the memory of a man injured by a rocket launcher. “It hit him in the belly. The wounds he had, it just haunts me,” she said. That man did not survive.

She remembers cutting clothes off the men brought in with injuries.

“That’s where we got Agent Orange,” Nichols said. Affected by the herbicide, she suffers from peripheral neuropathy and other health issues,

and receives compensation because of 90 percent combat disability.

Bolton Act in 1943, which paid for her nursing training.

John Hughes, Legacy Washington’s chief historian and former editor and publisher of The Daily World newspaper in Aberdeen, wrote profiles about eight of the 13 people featured in “Korea 65,” including Nichols.

Hughes got a kick out of her reaction when he asked about “M*A*S*H,” the TV series based on a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the Korean War. She told him she was way too busy for the antics of the fictional characters.

“I knew that nurses in Korea were really close to the front lines,” Hughes said. In doing his research for the exhibit, “I cast my net and found this little tiny amazing woman in Panorama City. Barbara Nichols is an absolutely remarkable American woman.”

“I see a little humor in it now,” Nichols said when reminded Monday of the show’s Maj. Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan. “We didn’t have all the fun they had,” she said.

With an interest in genealogy, Nichols has traced her ancestry to the 1600s. She learned she is a descendant of John Howland, who fell overboard but was rescued during the 1620 voyage of the Mayflower.

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