2-sided National Nurses Week Garden Flag

No "Thank You!" is grand enough for the nurses who are putting their lives on the line during the current pandemic, but placing a flag on your front lawn to express your gratitude for all the world to see makes a good start! Show your support for these brave women and men with a National Nurses Week garden flag! In America, National Nurses Week always begins on May 6th and ends on May 12th, the birthday of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing. + The lamp is an internationally recognized symbol for nursing. Nightingale became known as "the Lady with a Lamp" for making her solitary rounds through the wards of wounded soldiers during the Crimean War late at night. While a British war correspondent first described Nightingale in the press making such rounds, it was the American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who popularized the image in his poem “Santa Filomena” which appeared in the first issue of The Atlantic Monthly in November 1857. St. Philomena—to give the more common English spelling—was an early Christian/Roman era virgin martyr invoked by the sick. + Also available as oversized and standard greeting cards. + Image Credit (Nursing Lamp): Public Domain Clip Art Image by bedpanner, courtesy of the Open Clip Art Library.