Published in THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY some five years after the war, an American nurse published these letters that were dictated to her in France by a handful of dying American soldiers; equally moving were the grateful responses she received weeks later from their recipients: "I am glad and thank God he had such a quiet, peaceful death. It is a very hard thing for a mother to realize she cannot be with [her son] in his last moments...I am proud to give up my only boy to his country, and that alone is a great consolation." This is just a segment from a longer article; to read the six page memoir in it's entirety, click here. Click here to read more World War One letters. Click here for clip art depicting the nurses of World War One. |
