BEST wishes to DUer duhneece (Denise Lang) fighting for a State House seat in New Mexico!
We're pulling for you, Denise! 
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I'm in California and met Denise some years ago on DU. We discovered that her late husband, Mike, and I were in the same Army hospital at the same time as Vietnam casualties. In fact, we were on the same floor. Mike was on the amputee side and I was on the facial casualties side. I probably met Mike back then.
My first wife was from Albuquerque's South Valley. We met at the very end of my hospital stay. She'd finished her junior year in Nursing at UNM and was working in a summer program at the Public Health Service Hospital in San Francisco, not far from Letterman Army Hospital at the Presidio.
I still have a soft spot in my heart for New Mexico. 
My wife never practiced nursing in NM apart from practicum at an Indian health clinic in Bernallio during school. She did critical care at UCLA when we were in California in the '70s, then was at Georgetown U. Hospital for many years. Last I heard from her she'd moved to another D.C.-area hospital, but it's been a while now.
I love nurses, both as a general proposition and because a nurse literally saved my life in Vietnam.
I don't think she'll mind if I share part of her last message to me:
Still, there's hope, as Hillary's coattails and the Hispanic vote can give her a boost.
Whatever happens, what counts is that Denise is fighting the good fight.
And what she's doing takes a special kind of courage.
Talk about setting a good example!
Go Denise! 
We're rooting for you on DU, Denise!! 
Well, not an actual roadrunner, but the image. 
