VA Employees in Shock Over Alex Pretti’s Death, Administration Response

Ever since Florence Nightingale brought her intrepid band of nurses to care for English soldiers during the Crimean War in 1854, nurses have been on the front lines of caring for soldiers and then, when they become veterans, tending to their visible and invisible wounds of war and military service. In so doing, nurses—whether men or women—have risked their lives and health to care for their patients.

On Saturday, January 24, another nurse sacrificed his life to protect the sick and vulnerable...