A fact from Sacred Twenty appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 November 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that in the few years after the formation of the exclusively female Sacred Twenty(pictured), military nursing tasks during World War I were still often done by untrained men?
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There seems to be some confusion as to what constituted the "US Naval Hospital" (or "Naval Hospital, Washington DC") in 1908. Because of BRAC/Base Realignment the former Bethesda Naval Medical Center was merged with the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (colloquially known usually just as "Walter Reed Army Hospital") to become The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center but in 1908 that was not yet the case. I have removed the Wikilink stating that this is so [[Walter Reed National Military Medical Center|U.S. Naval Hospital]] and returned the text's meaning to what the various sources state, that the initial training of the Sacred Twenty took place "at the US Naval Hospital". Shearonink (talk) 07:43, 8 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I'll have to look into this a bit closer, but as I recall when making this article, many sources do indeed call it simply the "U.S. Naval Hospital" in D.C. without further specification. I, JethroBTdrop me a line 15:55, 8 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
What the article does not explain is when, and by whom, the group was assigned the bizarre sobriquet "The Sacred Twenty". GrindtXX (talk) 15:38, 8 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
True that it would be helpful to have this information, but you'll have to trust me that I've read a lot on this group, and none have elucidated the origins of the name. I, JethroBTdrop me a line 15:51, 8 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
