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Welcome to the new High Show on Education. This is
your host, Family Clark, and this is an episode of
American Men and Women Tell Other Stories of Survival. This
is the sixth show if for the MUSERGA it's part
of the Music Gone series, and I suggest that you
(01:05):
go back and listen to the first, well all of
them in order, they're all marked, and then come back
to this one if you have not done so already.
In my last episode, I shared some history facts and
mentioned a book of soldier letters from eighteen ninety six
(01:29):
to nineteen eighteen. There's like two hundred four pages and
all to this book. I looked a little more into
it and the muse was only mentioned four times within it,
so I'm going to read those four it, but I
want to share the whole book below. So this is
on page ninety three of the book. It says, last
(01:53):
night I saw a regiment marching off as it was
in a town. They went musk eetite. There is nothing
so inspiring as these blue ranks with their thousands of rifles,
marching steadily off to the sound of the sambre. Big
(02:13):
fellows and little ones. Every now and then, a little
dog on a string trotting alongside the ensemble makes the
most emotional thing I know. You think of so many
things as you watch them, the great power of such
a regiment of men, the sufferings that they have been
through and are about to go through again, the idea
(02:38):
of quiet determination which they give you. When the music
stops for a moment and you hear just the steady
tramp of the feet and watch wave after wave come
around the corner and pass off into the distance, you
think of verdem this and above all, of France, to
(03:03):
fight for France, to push back the Germans, and of
Alsace Lorraine. You will feel the same when you see
our own soldiers march down Broadway the day they embark
for France. It will be so different from a flat
and stupid parade. Page ninety nine of the same book.
(03:27):
I'm very glad that you that you got hold of
the sumbre of Muse. It's muse. It is about the
most inspiring thing in the world, and I meant to
send it to you long long ago. I must tell
you about the first time I ever heard it. It
was a year in June when they were just beginning
(03:48):
to find out a little about the real French spirit
and what a wonderful country France was. After all, our
ambulance unit had come to a temporary halt, and we
were setting around on our cars, lined up in the
public square of the little town in which we were stopping.
(04:11):
Same page. Suddenly, just around the corner came a terrific
blast of bugles, and we knew that it was a
regiment of our division passing through the town on the
way up to Verdun, from which only half of them
were to come back. Ten days later, another blast from
about forty bugles, and then came the strains of Sombre
(04:35):
et meuse. Page one, thirty four October nineteenth killed an
attack at Firm Disk. Graves died in the field he
gave or. His grave is number twenty four, Plot one
in the Argonne American Cemetery remained south month Folken talking
(05:00):
about Oh my god, his name again, Salter Senior of
Yeah nineteen twelve. I had mentioned him in the last shows.
You'd go back and learn more about him, all right,
(05:21):
So now I'm gonna switch away from the book to
a site that I came across called Cowhampshire blog dot
com and it was written by Janis Brown May fourth,
twenty seventeen, titled one hundred years Ago gold Star Women
(05:44):
and Nurses of World War One Nurses. This is her
talking nurses running my family. My second great grandmother, her
grandfather Gosh second great grandfather, Aaron Webster, was a nurse
during the America's Civil War. My father's sister, Anna Webster
(06:05):
Watkins was a nurse, as was my sister Kathy Webster.
Close and dear first cousins also followed that selfless profession.
None of them died in wartime. Many of the American
nurses of World War One worked under auspicies of the
American Red Cross, while still others were considered members of
(06:27):
the U. S. Army. They did not hold a rank,
nor did they receive any military benefits when the war ended.
They put themselves in the direct line of both the
danger and the bombs and poison gas, but also cared
for highly contagious officer or military patient. Excuse me, their
(06:47):
sacrifice cannot be stressed enough, and yet they received little
or no recognition. According to a newspaper article in Lebanon,
Pennsylvania edition of January nineteen nineteen. Over two hundred World
War One nurses died from influenza that they contracted from
(07:08):
caring for their soldier patients. There's a lithograph poster hold
up this title Hold up your End War Fund Week
poster nineteen seventeen. WB King was the Artist Library of
Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, d C. So you
can see that image as well. Moving on, National Nurses
(07:35):
Week is celebrated this year, which was She wrote this
in twenty seventeen. It was May sixth through the twelfth.
To honor nurses everywhere, one must start with those who
lost their lives practicing their profession. The following newspaper article
in Asbury Park Evening Press of Friday, November tenth, nineteen
twenty two, mentions by name of those nurses who died
(07:58):
during World War One. Please note this list does not complete.
It is a partial list on the information at hand
by the author of the newspaper article. The Memorialist shows
one hundred and sixty one gold Star women gave lives
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gave lives in World War Chicago, November tenth, one hundred
and sixty one names of gold Star Women American girls
who gave their lives in the World War are found
on the list made public today by the Women's Overseas
Service League, compiled as a feature to Armistice Day. Most
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of them rest under the French soil, some in far
off Siberia, Armenia and China and Manila, and others in England.
Editor's note this is now more than This list is
now more than one hundred and sixty one as I
have added names from other official lists. There is a
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sheet music cover that is for I never believed in
angels until I met you, Girl of the Cross, nineteen eighteen,
so you could take a look at that image. Plans
for perpetual testimony to the former service women of the
American Expitionary Forces were announced in connection with the lists,
(09:29):
which will be presented at the League convention here in
June next year. Chicago, headquarters of the League, said in
the announcement quote, there is a handsome bronze tablet in
the Army and Navy Building and Washington memorizing the mules
and horses who died in the war. But nowhere in
(09:52):
Washington is there found a record of the women who died,
except army nurses. Until we compiled it to Miss Helen C. Courtney,
originator of the Memorial movement. That's sad. I don't understand
why that would be that way. Talk about limited thinking, okay.
(10:20):
Jane A. Delano believe or beloved, head of the Red
Cross Nursing Service who died at Savona April fifteenth, nineteen nineteen.
Marion crandall Ymca Campton Near killed by a German shell
at Shelon Sir Marney, March twenty sixth, nineteen seventeen. There's
a picture too. Wenona C. Martin killed in a Paris
(10:45):
hospital by a bomb from a German air raider March
nineteen eighteen. Andreith Landon by a shell in Saint Gervais
Church in Paris. The Cromwell sisters, Dorothy and Flattys of
New York, who came to a tragic end at sea
January nineteenth, nineteen nineteen, as they were about to set
(11:06):
sell for home. And two other sisters, Viola and Ruth
land or no Lundel Landholm of Petal Luma, California, both
Army nurses, who died within six days of each other
in October nineteen seventeen in different hospitals in France. Are
(11:27):
among the outstanding names. Nettie Grace McBride and Edith Barnett
are buried in Tuman and Thoms, Siberia, and Edith Winchester
and Erivan, Armenia their home addresses and those of Nina
Luis Seymour who died in twelve front and Alice a
(11:52):
Ireland in Base Hospital number one oh one, and information
of other women who died in the service is being
sought by Miss Irene Gibbon Wilson, Curator of the American
Red Cross Museum in Washington, Chairman of the memorial Committee.
(12:12):
There is an image chair of twelve nurses a Base
Hospital number five in London, May nineteen seventeen, Carrie M.
Hall seated in the chair from or Slush and Singer
Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute
and Harvard University. Sorry, just a moment, Okay, before I
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start this list, Let's take a quick commercial break and
I'll be right back. Listeners.
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Welcome back to the New High Show on Education. This
year host Pamla Clark, and I'm going to create the
names to you of gold Star Women's cities. Named are
those given as emergency addresses when the women sell for France.
Editor's Notes. In October of twenty nineteen, I discovered two
(13:56):
more or lests of Army and Navy nurses in the
American National Red Cross Annual Report recruited through the Department
of Nursing of the American Red Cross. They were nurses, dietitians,
or nurses' aides engaged in Red crosswork who died or
were killed in service from the time the United States
(14:19):
entered the war up till June thirtieth, nineteen eighteen. These
additional names are marked with a plus sign, and the
second group, who died or were killed in service during
the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen nineteen, are marked
with a double plus sign. And October of twenty twenty three,
(14:40):
this person discovered an additional list of Chicago, Illinois area
nurses who died during World War One who were marked
with a pound sign. Note that the names that were
already in the news article that also appear The two
additional lists will not have the added cross or pound
(15:01):
signed amended. These individuals are buried in various cemeteries in
Europe and the United States, and from Arizona and Phoenix.
Hazel E. Morton, California, Altaville, Elizabeth F. Lee from Bakersfield,
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Annez E. Reid from Concord, Hazel Brandon from Cooper, Tino,
Teresa E. Rogers from Dos Palos, Ida, Henrietta Vittmeyer from
Fort Jones, maud Evans from Fullerton, Patricia L. Bryan Glendale
(15:51):
from Glendale, Emma M. Franklin Hollywood, Pauline h Field and
Mary Agnes More from Newman, Freda Russ from Oakland, Ethel
Marion Burke, Diusella Castline and Edna Hanley from Petaluma, Viola
(16:15):
Elandholm or Lundholme excuse me, Ruth W. Lundholm from Porterville,
Lena Fuller from Redlands, Mabel Wellman from San Francisco, Thalma Icefield,
and Nellie G. Gallaher gallaher Uh, Sanna Anna Cora m keach.
(16:45):
She was a dietitian. Sanna Anna Cora m keach. Oh,
That's what I just said. Sorry, San Pedro. Nell Hurley
from Seabright, Marion pearl Toner strathmore Lydia merrile Buck from
(17:06):
Canada from East Almer, Kathleen E. Simms from Greenfield, Ontario,
Jenny McIntosh from Lake Megantic, Sophia Ellen Morrison from London,
(17:28):
Daisy E. Wiggins from Montreal, Cecilia E. Miller from Peterborough, Ontario.
Marion l Overend, she died in aeroplane airplane accident. Saint
Catherine Lillian M. Murphy from South Tilly, Anna A. Walker
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from Toronto, Constance M. Kaplan and Ella Dalton from Colorado, Denver,
Hattie M. Rathel from Jarassa, Alma M. Ericsson and Leadville,
Clara or m Oregon Orgren from Peblo, phoebe Allen from
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Connecticut from Waterberry, Alice J. Knight and Hazel Foster from
Plantsville corrected from plates Plaitsville see comments. Irene Mercedes Flynn
from Plainville, Connecticut. Monica Brock from New London, Catherine J.
(18:50):
McGuire from Rockville, Mildred mccaff medcalf New Haven, Helen A.
Moakley from Strand, Stamford, Mary C. Nurney from Delaware, Wilmington.
Ruth McGregor from Greenwood, Lily May Owens from Florida, Jacksonville,
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Bessy O'Brien from Gainesville, Laura A. Baird from San Mateo, Malgaret, Virginia,
Dicky from Tampa, Cora, Belle Davis, Georgia from Decatur, Camille
Lewis or Louise O'Brien Okay from Idaho from Nampa, Genevera
(19:52):
Robinson from Winchester, Norden, Mary Royer from Moscow, Idaho. Bertha C.
Walker from Illinois and from andal louf Sia, Andalusia. Teresa b. Meister,
(20:19):
daughter of Ludwig from Meister of Andalusia, Illinois, where with
me from Aurora. Missus Almer Rogers from Beardstown, Dorothew Wessel
from Beecher City, Geneva. Cas Stevens Okay, Chicago, Lascille. At
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first they listened to it was a pepsim, but there's
a line through it. They said that's incorrect. Pepoon, pepoon.
They believe it's a right name. Chicago, Miss Alice Belling,
Miss m Kstrom, Miss Margaret England, Miss Ethel Knapp, Carmelita O'Connor,
(21:19):
Miss Marguerite O'Connor, Antoinette w Lepold, Aura, Margaret Gore Curry
d Breckenridge, Alice Leah Kilga Hopehog the Higg, Missus Frederick W.
(21:43):
Tice from Chicago Heights. Helen G. Sage from Decatur, Florence.
Ann Hinton US Army Base Hospital Number twelve from Dixon,
bruth of A from Evanston. Francis Paul from Evanston. Helen
(22:06):
Burnett Wood killed aboard the USS. Magnolia Kawani from Kawani.
Miss Charlotte H. Williams from Nephin. Set Esther Marie or
Gerwin or now excuse me, Esther Marie Gervin from Virginia,
(22:32):
uh Nell Robertson. I think I yipt. There's Edith Wood
and Emma Matson. They don't know where they're from. Indiana
from Frankfurt or No. Sorry, my sweat tricks on me
(22:53):
because of my my answer and I have limited visions,
so sometimes things appear different and sometimes there's just gaps
and stuff. So bear with me. I think I'm done
pretty good under the circumstances. So okay. Indiana from Frankton,
may Berry Rowan Oak from Rowan Oak. Grace ge Buell
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from Lebanon. Grace Copeland from Washington, Crystal E. McCord from Jeffersonville,
h Mary Rapp from Fairmont, ethel O Leach from Lafayette,
Florence Lee Claire from South Bend, Missus Mary M. Sebastian
(23:44):
from Iowa. Carol Kathleen C. Keene back Cedar Rapids, Pauline A.
Quigley from Council Bluffs, Ruby Smith, Barbara el Seller, poortense
E wind And from Edgewood, Ruth Cutler and Elsie may
(24:08):
Hatch Emmittsburgh, Katherine Sorry, Catherine T. Kane from Fort Madison,
Dorothy A. Cohner from Harland, Rose Ebuman from Iowa City,
miss Rowena B. Spence from Assayan, A Sian or A Sayan,
(24:30):
Edith G. Becker from Ottu from Ottumwa, Amber R. Story
from West Liberty, Elsie Davis from West Liberty, Ella M. Norrin,
(24:52):
Ella Okay wait Sorry from Ireland, Castletown, Rock, Ireland. Helena
Courtney from Kansas from Albilene, Grace W. Hershey from Alath,
Lottie Hollenbruk Hollenbreck from Colby, Etta Couver from Ogilaw, Ruth B.
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Farney from Margerite, Edith B. Holkinson from Sawyer, ALBERTA. I.
Wigner from Kentucky, Eddieville, Catherine B Irwin from Louisville, Missus,
Hattie B. Hayes from Louisiana Shreveport. Jolie Lyde or lydd
(25:47):
L I. D E from Craven's, Jessica R. McDowell from
Maine Andover or Norway, Francis E. Bartlett from prescuele per
Old Pennington from bar Harbor, Helen Francis Dunovan from Aberneth
(26:08):
Ourra Abrathney Eprithney, Violet E. Robinson from patronn't Know from Patton,
Jesse B. Mariner from Rockland or Portland, Jane B. Mercer
Winthrob from Winthrop, Mary Francis Emery from Maryland, Baltimore, Daisy
(26:35):
Adams Charlotte Charlotte A. Cox and Grace Bell McKay miche
something like that. I'm sorry, I'm trying to be respectful
and thinking about these names because I know how this
fills to see your own family's name on the list
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like this. Because, as I mentioned before, my turn her
grandfather died in World War Two. So that's another reason
I'm listing these because they deserve to be spoken out
loud and to be recognized, and yeah, okay, so Governston
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from got I'm sorry from Galvenston, Marie Antoinette Moss from Arlington,
Cornelia Price, these are all from Massachusetts. Amherst, Elizabeth Sterns
Tyler from Boston, Anna Walker from Cambridge, Helen M. Barrage
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from Chelsea, Mary C. Burke from Georgester, Grace al Mallick Fitchburg,
Elizabeth O'Connor and Priscilia Priscilla excuse me out In Crocker
from Foxborough, Meda Morse from Meta Poise at Florence, Lizzie F.
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Eastman from Middleborough, Nina Louise Seymour or Seymour from Needham, Missus,
Charles McDonald from Roxbury, Anna Ka Welsh and Ellen Jane
Demeres from Sheffield, Maud Victoria Kels and give me a minute, Somerville,
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Catherine Kay Golden and Gertrude O'Connor from Swamps from swamp Scott,
Alice Opotts from Springfield, Margaret Bailey from Truro, Blanche Newton
(29:04):
Small from Watertown, Mary E. O'Connor from Orchester, Worcester and
I'm sorry Worchester something like that. Let's see all of
Norcross from Michigan Detroit, mabel A Reagan and Charlotte Shone
(29:26):
Height from Blanchard, Hazel A. Babcock from Battle Creek, Alice V.
Murphy from Buchanan, Gladys and Loy Lyon from Calamut, Emma M.
Butler from Croswell, miss mabel A Reagan from Jackson, Haiti M.
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Newkirk from Whitehall, Fanny MAE Erickson from from Grand Rapids,
Florence G. Hatkinson and Vera M. Rockwell from Isken, Paul Anna,
Alvina Larson from Royal Oak, Margaret Parr from Bay City,
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Golden and trapp Or Goldie and Travisorry from gaylard Or Flint.
Mamy al Wright from Minnesota, Duluth, Lydia B. White Side,
Saint Hilaire, Norah, Emily Anderson from Monte Video, veto something
(30:48):
like that. Esther Emmonson North Saint Paul, Mary H. Cummings
from Saint Paul, Anna, Marie Dolby Minneapolis, f e A.
Larson from Roscoe, Clara E. Sore from Casson, Julius Steinstad
(31:17):
from Mississippi Biloxi, Catherine Dent from Carrollton, Margaret eleanor Karen
from Missouri Queen City, Katherine Hoffmann from Saint Louis, Missus,
Catherine W. Cecil from Slaughter, Margaret Eleanor Kern from Diamond,
(31:38):
Ena E. Kleinfelter from Nebraska, Omaha, Maude May Butler, Marine
Crandall and miss Ada I'm sorry, miss Ada E. Fisher
from Lincoln. Ellen M. Sargeant from New Hampshire, Concord, Lucy N.
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Fletcher from Executor, Katherine Irwin from Portsmouth, Evelyn V. Portray
from New Jersey, Newark, Esther Slocombe, Florence L. Hathey, Jersey City,
Katherine mcgerty, Mary Norton from Creskill, Margaret Worth from Haddon Heights,
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Elizabeth H. Wyman Madison from Madison, Annabel S. Roberts from Somerville,
Emma E. Men And that's M. E. N n. Elizabeth
McWilliam from Swedesborough, Grace Mabel Lowe from Trenton, Matilda F.
(32:59):
Will wells Somerville, Elizabeth C. McWilliams in New York, Fredonia,
Annie Marie Williams from Anconta, Frannie Scotch Scatcherd from Holland,
(33:21):
Florence H. Trank from Buffalo. Magdalena M. Bolland from Albany,
Gertrude Valentine from Clyde, Marjorie r Room Or Rouman, New Rochelle,
Lorraine Ransom from Brooklyn, Alive Cunningham, Rogers and Winterfred l Health,
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Edith White, others from New York City, Sorry Skipt, New
York City, Edith White, Francis Mushinnam mcaulay, Sophia Harman, Dorothy Hamlin,
Dorothy Gray, Ruth Landon, Dorothea Cromwell, Gladys Cromwell, ann or
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Anna mcbreen, Edith Barnett, Rose Caplan, Francis McCullough, Florence Patrice Graham,
Mary Healey Norwich from Norwich, Mary Kay Carnes from Servant
Florence w. Can Campbell from Rockville, Center Waynona, Caroline Martin
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from Rochester Branch, Blanche A. Raleigh from Amia, Mabel Mabel R.
Moray from Canna day You, Marcia D mc Keetchney Palmer Falls,
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Alice Haggardorn Philmont from Philmont, Katherine E. Green from nyack On, Hudson,
Charlotte S. Staggan or Stigan, Moredonia, louise ebe Brian from
North Bergen, Anna Clements from Cannon Dead Goa. Katherine Conley
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from Froushing, Grace M. Falkenberg from Hempstead. Yeah, Magdalen Maga,
I'm sorry, Magdalene Freakin' or freaking Magdalene Freaking from hastings
(35:57):
On Hudson, Patrese Mey Gorman from New Rochelle, Daisy Kirktur
from Middleton, Rose Kirkwood Young from Bloomsburg, Irene I Drei
from North Carolina, Charlotte Felicia, I'm sorry, Felicita w. Hecht
(36:24):
from Morgantown, Eddie M. Perkins from North Dakota, Golden Valley
so Sabra, Regina Hardy from Lisbon, Florence Kimball from Carpio,
Mabel Christensen, Okay, I really wanted to read all of
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these in one session, but we're really running late, and
I don't want I don't want to skip anybody. I
really feel that all of these women names need to
be sad, they need recognition. I know it's not the story,
but it's certainly part of a story. It's part of
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the war, and it's this is men and women right,
so that are being recognized. And I wish I did
have all of their stories, but at least you have
the link. So next time we're going to start with
Ohio and we'll go from there. I hope you're enjoying
(37:31):
the show. I know for me it's it's not easy.
It's with the heavy heart that I share this all
with you, but I feel like I need to do
it all the same and I hope that it makes
you more appreciative of what you if you're an American citizen,
(37:56):
what America has to offer and accomplishments we've made, good
or bad. That's part of history, is part of our story.
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Welcome to the new High Show on Education. This is
your host, Family Clark, and this is an episode of
American Men and Women Tell Other Stories of Survival. This
is the sixth show if for the MUSERGA it's part
of the Music Gone series, and I suggest that you
(01:05):
go back and listen to the first, well all of
them in order, they're all marked, and then come back
to this one if you have not done so already.
In my last episode, I shared some history facts and
mentioned a book of soldier letters from eighteen ninety six
(01:29):
to nineteen eighteen. There's like two hundred four pages and
all to this book. I looked a little more into
it and the muse was only mentioned four times within it,
so I'm going to read those four it, but I
want to share the whole book below. So this is
on page ninety three of the book. It says, last
(01:53):
night I saw a regiment marching off as it was
in a town. They went musk eetite. There is nothing
so inspiring as these blue ranks with their thousands of rifles,
marching steadily off to the sound of the sambre. Big
(02:13):
fellows and little ones. Every now and then, a little
dog on a string trotting alongside the ensemble makes the
most emotional thing I know. You think of so many
things as you watch them, the great power of such
a regiment of men, the sufferings that they have been
through and are about to go through again, the idea
(02:38):
of quiet determination which they give you. When the music
stops for a moment and you hear just the steady
tramp of the feet and watch wave after wave come
around the corner and pass off into the distance, you
think of verdem this and above all, of France, to
(03:03):
fight for France, to push back the Germans, and of
Alsace Lorraine. You will feel the same when you see
our own soldiers march down Broadway the day they embark
for France. It will be so different from a flat
and stupid parade. Page ninety nine of the same book.
(03:27):
I'm very glad that you that you got hold of
the sumbre of Muse. It's muse. It is about the
most inspiring thing in the world, and I meant to
send it to you long long ago. I must tell
you about the first time I ever heard it. It
was a year in June when they were just beginning
(03:48):
to find out a little about the real French spirit
and what a wonderful country France was. After all, our
ambulance unit had come to a temporary halt, and we
were setting around on our cars, lined up in the
public square of the little town in which we were stopping.
(04:11):
Same page. Suddenly, just around the corner came a terrific
blast of bugles, and we knew that it was a
regiment of our division passing through the town on the
way up to Verdun, from which only half of them
were to come back. Ten days later, another blast from
about forty bugles, and then came the strains of Sombre
(04:35):
et meuse. Page one, thirty four October nineteenth killed an
attack at Firm Disk. Graves died in the field he
gave or. His grave is number twenty four, Plot one
in the Argonne American Cemetery remained south month Folken talking
(05:00):
about Oh my god, his name again, Salter Senior of
Yeah nineteen twelve. I had mentioned him in the last shows.
You'd go back and learn more about him, all right,
(05:21):
So now I'm gonna switch away from the book to
a site that I came across called Cowhampshire blog dot
com and it was written by Janis Brown May fourth,
twenty seventeen, titled one hundred years Ago gold Star Women
(05:44):
and Nurses of World War One Nurses. This is her
talking nurses running my family. My second great grandmother, her
grandfather Gosh second great grandfather, Aaron Webster, was a nurse
during the America's Civil War. My father's sister, Anna Webster
(06:05):
Watkins was a nurse, as was my sister Kathy Webster.
Close and dear first cousins also followed that selfless profession.
None of them died in wartime. Many of the American
nurses of World War One worked under auspicies of the
American Red Cross, while still others were considered members of
(06:27):
the U. S. Army. They did not hold a rank,
nor did they receive any military benefits when the war ended.
They put themselves in the direct line of both the
danger and the bombs and poison gas, but also cared
for highly contagious officer or military patient. Excuse me, their
(06:47):
sacrifice cannot be stressed enough, and yet they received little
or no recognition. According to a newspaper article in Lebanon,
Pennsylvania edition of January nineteen nineteen. Over two hundred World
War One nurses died from influenza that they contracted from
(07:08):
caring for their soldier patients. There's a lithograph poster hold
up this title Hold up your End War Fund Week
poster nineteen seventeen. WB King was the Artist Library of
Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, d C. So you
can see that image as well. Moving on, National Nurses
(07:35):
Week is celebrated this year, which was She wrote this
in twenty seventeen. It was May sixth through the twelfth.
To honor nurses everywhere, one must start with those who
lost their lives practicing their profession. The following newspaper article
in Asbury Park Evening Press of Friday, November tenth, nineteen
twenty two, mentions by name of those nurses who died
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during World War One. Please note this list does not complete.
It is a partial list on the information at hand
by the author of the newspaper article. The Memorialist shows
one hundred and sixty one gold Star women gave lives
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gave lives in World War Chicago, November tenth, one hundred
and sixty one names of gold Star Women American girls
who gave their lives in the World War are found
on the list made public today by the Women's Overseas
Service League, compiled as a feature to Armistice Day. Most
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of them rest under the French soil, some in far
off Siberia, Armenia and China and Manila, and others in England.
Editor's note this is now more than This list is
now more than one hundred and sixty one as I
have added names from other official lists. There is a
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sheet music cover that is for I never believed in
angels until I met you, Girl of the Cross, nineteen eighteen,
so you could take a look at that image. Plans
for perpetual testimony to the former service women of the
American Expitionary Forces were announced in connection with the lists,
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which will be presented at the League convention here in
June next year. Chicago, headquarters of the League, said in
the announcement quote, there is a handsome bronze tablet in
the Army and Navy Building and Washington memorizing the mules
and horses who died in the war. But nowhere in
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Washington is there found a record of the women who died,
except army nurses. Until we compiled it to Miss Helen C. Courtney,
originator of the Memorial movement. That's sad. I don't understand
why that would be that way. Talk about limited thinking, okay.
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Jane A. Delano believe or beloved, head of the Red
Cross Nursing Service who died at Savona April fifteenth, nineteen nineteen.
Marion crandall Ymca Campton Near killed by a German shell
at Shelon Sir Marney, March twenty sixth, nineteen seventeen. There's
a picture too. Wenona C. Martin killed in a Paris
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hospital by a bomb from a German air raider March
nineteen eighteen. Andreith Landon by a shell in Saint Gervais
Church in Paris. The Cromwell sisters, Dorothy and Flattys of
New York, who came to a tragic end at sea
January nineteenth, nineteen nineteen, as they were about to set
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sell for home. And two other sisters, Viola and Ruth
land or no Lundel Landholm of Petal Luma, California, both
Army nurses, who died within six days of each other
in October nineteen seventeen in different hospitals in France. Are
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among the outstanding names. Nettie Grace McBride and Edith Barnett
are buried in Tuman and Thoms, Siberia, and Edith Winchester
and Erivan, Armenia their home addresses and those of Nina
Luis Seymour who died in twelve front and Alice a
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Ireland in Base Hospital number one oh one, and information
of other women who died in the service is being
sought by Miss Irene Gibbon Wilson, Curator of the American
Red Cross Museum in Washington, Chairman of the memorial Committee.
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There is an image chair of twelve nurses a Base
Hospital number five in London, May nineteen seventeen, Carrie M.
Hall seated in the chair from or Slush and Singer
Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute
and Harvard University. Sorry, just a moment, Okay, before I
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start this list, Let's take a quick commercial break and
I'll be right back. Listeners.
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Welcome back to the New High Show on Education. This
year host Pamla Clark, and I'm going to create the
names to you of gold Star Women's cities. Named are
those given as emergency addresses when the women sell for France.
Editor's Notes. In October of twenty nineteen, I discovered two
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more or lests of Army and Navy nurses in the
American National Red Cross Annual Report recruited through the Department
of Nursing of the American Red Cross. They were nurses, dietitians,
or nurses' aides engaged in Red crosswork who died or
were killed in service from the time the United States
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entered the war up till June thirtieth, nineteen eighteen. These
additional names are marked with a plus sign, and the
second group, who died or were killed in service during
the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen nineteen, are marked
with a double plus sign. And October of twenty twenty three,
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this person discovered an additional list of Chicago, Illinois area
nurses who died during World War One who were marked
with a pound sign. Note that the names that were
already in the news article that also appear The two
additional lists will not have the added cross or pound
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signed amended. These individuals are buried in various cemeteries in
Europe and the United States, and from Arizona and Phoenix.
Hazel E. Morton, California, Altaville, Elizabeth F. Lee from Bakersfield,
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Annez E. Reid from Concord, Hazel Brandon from Cooper, Tino,
Teresa E. Rogers from Dos Palos, Ida, Henrietta Vittmeyer from
Fort Jones, maud Evans from Fullerton, Patricia L. Bryan Glendale
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from Glendale, Emma M. Franklin Hollywood, Pauline h Field and
Mary Agnes More from Newman, Freda Russ from Oakland, Ethel
Marion Burke, Diusella Castline and Edna Hanley from Petaluma, Viola
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Elandholm or Lundholme excuse me, Ruth W. Lundholm from Porterville,
Lena Fuller from Redlands, Mabel Wellman from San Francisco, Thalma Icefield,
and Nellie G. Gallaher gallaher Uh, Sanna Anna Cora m keach.
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She was a dietitian. Sanna Anna Cora m keach. Oh,
That's what I just said. Sorry, San Pedro. Nell Hurley
from Seabright, Marion pearl Toner strathmore Lydia merrile Buck from
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Canada from East Almer, Kathleen E. Simms from Greenfield, Ontario,
Jenny McIntosh from Lake Megantic, Sophia Ellen Morrison from London,
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Daisy E. Wiggins from Montreal, Cecilia E. Miller from Peterborough, Ontario.
Marion l Overend, she died in aeroplane airplane accident. Saint
Catherine Lillian M. Murphy from South Tilly, Anna A. Walker
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from Toronto, Constance M. Kaplan and Ella Dalton from Colorado, Denver,
Hattie M. Rathel from Jarassa, Alma M. Ericsson and Leadville,
Clara or m Oregon Orgren from Peblo, phoebe Allen from
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Connecticut from Waterberry, Alice J. Knight and Hazel Foster from
Plantsville corrected from plates Plaitsville see comments. Irene Mercedes Flynn
from Plainville, Connecticut. Monica Brock from New London, Catherine J.
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McGuire from Rockville, Mildred mccaff medcalf New Haven, Helen A.
Moakley from Strand, Stamford, Mary C. Nurney from Delaware, Wilmington.
Ruth McGregor from Greenwood, Lily May Owens from Florida, Jacksonville,
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Bessy O'Brien from Gainesville, Laura A. Baird from San Mateo, Malgaret, Virginia,
Dicky from Tampa, Cora, Belle Davis, Georgia from Decatur, Camille
Lewis or Louise O'Brien Okay from Idaho from Nampa, Genevera
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Robinson from Winchester, Norden, Mary Royer from Moscow, Idaho. Bertha C.
Walker from Illinois and from andal louf Sia, Andalusia. Teresa b. Meister,
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daughter of Ludwig from Meister of Andalusia, Illinois, where with
me from Aurora. Missus Almer Rogers from Beardstown, Dorothew Wessel
from Beecher City, Geneva. Cas Stevens Okay, Chicago, Lascille. At
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first they listened to it was a pepsim, but there's
a line through it. They said that's incorrect. Pepoon, pepoon.
They believe it's a right name. Chicago, Miss Alice Belling,
Miss m Kstrom, Miss Margaret England, Miss Ethel Knapp, Carmelita O'Connor,
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Miss Marguerite O'Connor, Antoinette w Lepold, Aura, Margaret Gore Curry
d Breckenridge, Alice Leah Kilga Hopehog the Higg, Missus Frederick W.
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Tice from Chicago Heights. Helen G. Sage from Decatur, Florence.
Ann Hinton US Army Base Hospital Number twelve from Dixon,
bruth of A from Evanston. Francis Paul from Evanston. Helen
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Burnett Wood killed aboard the USS. Magnolia Kawani from Kawani.
Miss Charlotte H. Williams from Nephin. Set Esther Marie or
Gerwin or now excuse me, Esther Marie Gervin from Virginia,
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uh Nell Robertson. I think I yipt. There's Edith Wood
and Emma Matson. They don't know where they're from. Indiana
from Frankfurt or No. Sorry, my sweat tricks on me
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because of my my answer and I have limited visions,
so sometimes things appear different and sometimes there's just gaps
and stuff. So bear with me. I think I'm done
pretty good under the circumstances. So okay. Indiana from Frankton,
may Berry Rowan Oak from Rowan Oak. Grace ge Buell
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from Lebanon. Grace Copeland from Washington, Crystal E. McCord from Jeffersonville,
h Mary Rapp from Fairmont, ethel O Leach from Lafayette,
Florence Lee Claire from South Bend, Missus Mary M. Sebastian
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from Iowa. Carol Kathleen C. Keene back Cedar Rapids, Pauline A.
Quigley from Council Bluffs, Ruby Smith, Barbara el Seller, poortense
E wind And from Edgewood, Ruth Cutler and Elsie may
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Hatch Emmittsburgh, Katherine Sorry, Catherine T. Kane from Fort Madison,
Dorothy A. Cohner from Harland, Rose Ebuman from Iowa City,
miss Rowena B. Spence from Assayan, A Sian or A Sayan,
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Edith G. Becker from Ottu from Ottumwa, Amber R. Story
from West Liberty, Elsie Davis from West Liberty, Ella M. Norrin,
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Ella Okay wait Sorry from Ireland, Castletown, Rock, Ireland. Helena
Courtney from Kansas from Albilene, Grace W. Hershey from Alath,
Lottie Hollenbruk Hollenbreck from Colby, Etta Couver from Ogilaw, Ruth B.
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Farney from Margerite, Edith B. Holkinson from Sawyer, ALBERTA. I.
Wigner from Kentucky, Eddieville, Catherine B Irwin from Louisville, Missus,
Hattie B. Hayes from Louisiana Shreveport. Jolie Lyde or lydd
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L I. D E from Craven's, Jessica R. McDowell from
Maine Andover or Norway, Francis E. Bartlett from prescuele per
Old Pennington from bar Harbor, Helen Francis Dunovan from Aberneth
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Ourra Abrathney Eprithney, Violet E. Robinson from patronn't Know from Patton,
Jesse B. Mariner from Rockland or Portland, Jane B. Mercer
Winthrob from Winthrop, Mary Francis Emery from Maryland, Baltimore, Daisy
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Adams Charlotte Charlotte A. Cox and Grace Bell McKay miche
something like that. I'm sorry, I'm trying to be respectful
and thinking about these names because I know how this
fills to see your own family's name on the list
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like this. Because, as I mentioned before, my turn her
grandfather died in World War Two. So that's another reason
I'm listing these because they deserve to be spoken out
loud and to be recognized, and yeah, okay, so Governston
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from got I'm sorry from Galvenston, Marie Antoinette Moss from Arlington,
Cornelia Price, these are all from Massachusetts. Amherst, Elizabeth Sterns
Tyler from Boston, Anna Walker from Cambridge, Helen M. Barrage
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from Chelsea, Mary C. Burke from Georgester, Grace al Mallick Fitchburg,
Elizabeth O'Connor and Priscilia Priscilla excuse me out In Crocker
from Foxborough, Meda Morse from Meta Poise at Florence, Lizzie F.
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Eastman from Middleborough, Nina Louise Seymour or Seymour from Needham, Missus,
Charles McDonald from Roxbury, Anna Ka Welsh and Ellen Jane
Demeres from Sheffield, Maud Victoria Kels and give me a minute, Somerville,
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Catherine Kay Golden and Gertrude O'Connor from Swamps from swamp Scott,
Alice Opotts from Springfield, Margaret Bailey from Truro, Blanche Newton
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Small from Watertown, Mary E. O'Connor from Orchester, Worcester and
I'm sorry Worchester something like that. Let's see all of
Norcross from Michigan Detroit, mabel A Reagan and Charlotte Shone
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Height from Blanchard, Hazel A. Babcock from Battle Creek, Alice V.
Murphy from Buchanan, Gladys and Loy Lyon from Calamut, Emma M.
Butler from Croswell, miss mabel A Reagan from Jackson, Haiti M.
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Newkirk from Whitehall, Fanny MAE Erickson from from Grand Rapids,
Florence G. Hatkinson and Vera M. Rockwell from Isken, Paul Anna,
Alvina Larson from Royal Oak, Margaret Parr from Bay City,
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Golden and trapp Or Goldie and Travisorry from gaylard Or Flint.
Mamy al Wright from Minnesota, Duluth, Lydia B. White Side,
Saint Hilaire, Norah, Emily Anderson from Monte Video, veto something
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like that. Esther Emmonson North Saint Paul, Mary H. Cummings
from Saint Paul, Anna, Marie Dolby Minneapolis, f e A.
Larson from Roscoe, Clara E. Sore from Casson, Julius Steinstad
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from Mississippi Biloxi, Catherine Dent from Carrollton, Margaret eleanor Karen
from Missouri Queen City, Katherine Hoffmann from Saint Louis, Missus,
Catherine W. Cecil from Slaughter, Margaret Eleanor Kern from Diamond,
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Ena E. Kleinfelter from Nebraska, Omaha, Maude May Butler, Marine
Crandall and miss Ada I'm sorry, miss Ada E. Fisher
from Lincoln. Ellen M. Sargeant from New Hampshire, Concord, Lucy N.
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Fletcher from Executor, Katherine Irwin from Portsmouth, Evelyn V. Portray
from New Jersey, Newark, Esther Slocombe, Florence L. Hathey, Jersey City,
Katherine mcgerty, Mary Norton from Creskill, Margaret Worth from Haddon Heights,
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Elizabeth H. Wyman Madison from Madison, Annabel S. Roberts from Somerville,
Emma E. Men And that's M. E. N n. Elizabeth
McWilliam from Swedesborough, Grace Mabel Lowe from Trenton, Matilda F.
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Will wells Somerville, Elizabeth C. McWilliams in New York, Fredonia,
Annie Marie Williams from Anconta, Frannie Scotch Scatcherd from Holland,
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Florence H. Trank from Buffalo. Magdalena M. Bolland from Albany,
Gertrude Valentine from Clyde, Marjorie r Room Or Rouman, New Rochelle,
Lorraine Ransom from Brooklyn, Alive Cunningham, Rogers and Winterfred l Health,
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Edith White, others from New York City, Sorry Skipt, New
York City, Edith White, Francis Mushinnam mcaulay, Sophia Harman, Dorothy Hamlin,
Dorothy Gray, Ruth Landon, Dorothea Cromwell, Gladys Cromwell, ann or
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Anna mcbreen, Edith Barnett, Rose Caplan, Francis McCullough, Florence Patrice Graham,
Mary Healey Norwich from Norwich, Mary Kay Carnes from Servant
Florence w. Can Campbell from Rockville, Center Waynona, Caroline Martin
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from Rochester Branch, Blanche A. Raleigh from Amia, Mabel Mabel R.
Moray from Canna day You, Marcia D mc Keetchney Palmer Falls,
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Alice Haggardorn Philmont from Philmont, Katherine E. Green from nyack On, Hudson,
Charlotte S. Staggan or Stigan, Moredonia, louise ebe Brian from
North Bergen, Anna Clements from Cannon Dead Goa. Katherine Conley
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from Froushing, Grace M. Falkenberg from Hempstead. Yeah, Magdalen Maga,
I'm sorry, Magdalene Freakin' or freaking Magdalene Freaking from hastings
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On Hudson, Patrese Mey Gorman from New Rochelle, Daisy Kirktur
from Middleton, Rose Kirkwood Young from Bloomsburg, Irene I Drei
from North Carolina, Charlotte Felicia, I'm sorry, Felicita w. Hecht
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from Morgantown, Eddie M. Perkins from North Dakota, Golden Valley
so Sabra, Regina Hardy from Lisbon, Florence Kimball from Carpio,
Mabel Christensen, Okay, I really wanted to read all of
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these in one session, but we're really running late, and
I don't want I don't want to skip anybody. I
really feel that all of these women names need to
be sad, they need recognition. I know it's not the story,
but it's certainly part of a story. It's part of
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the war, and it's this is men and women right,
so that are being recognized. And I wish I did
have all of their stories, but at least you have
the link. So next time we're going to start with
Ohio and we'll go from there. I hope you're enjoying
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the show. I know for me it's it's not easy.
It's with the heavy heart that I share this all
with you, but I feel like I need to do
it all the same and I hope that it makes
you more appreciative of what you if you're an American citizen,
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what America has to offer and accomplishments we've made, good
or bad. That's part of history, is part of our story.
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