tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66720308731736836742024-03-14T02:09:09.852-06:00 Heroic MeasuresAmerican Nurses in World War OneAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475958677473058558noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672030873173683674.post-62054989854507615812017-08-23T12:39:00.003-05:002017-08-28T16:57:54.408-05:00Contribute your WWI Army Nurse to National USA Centennial Site!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Many thanks to the National WWI Centennial website for publishing my article about how I became interested in the ARMY NURSE CORPS and those brave women who volunteered in 1917 and 1918!<br />
<b>Please go here to read it all: <a href="http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/3025-four-questions-for-jo-ann-power.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery">3025-four-questions-for-jo-ann-power.html</a></b><br />
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<b>Send me your memorabilia and photos of our family and friends who joined the Corps to:</b><br />
<b><a href="mailto:joannpower2@gmail.com">joannpower2@gmail.com</a> </b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Gates to American Cemetery in Paris, Suresnes American Cemetery where many nurses are buried.<br />(Photo by Jo-Ann Power)</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Jo-Ann Power, Curator of Army Nurse Corps Site</b></td></tr>
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<b>Jo-Ann Power photo from Ft. Sam Houston Medical Museum exhibit, 2013.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Group of Nurses folding bandages, WWI<br />Fort Sam Houston Medical Museum photo by Jo-Ann Power, 2017.</b></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475958677473058558noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672030873173683674.post-28692862014367695482017-07-14T17:34:00.003-05:002017-07-14T17:34:21.623-05:00Bastille Day Celebration, 100 Years Fighting with the French! Our Nurses saved the Wounded.Today, 200 Americans walked in the Bastille Day Parade in Paris. Much as our WWI soldiers did numerous times before and after that first world war, our men looked proud to celebrate our democracy.<br />
Hoping you will see those clips on TV and on Twitter, I'm also eager to post a few of my newest photographs willingly offered me by the Army Medical Museum in San Antonio at Fort Sam Houston.<br />
Here are the first of approximately 100 more which I will soon post on the National WWI Centennial Commission website. The annotations describe the photos.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>In their uniforms, they look ready to go, don't they?<br />BASE HOSPITAL #8, of American Expeditionary Force</b><br /></td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475958677473058558noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672030873173683674.post-11048028532871806122016-08-06T17:11:00.001-05:002016-08-06T17:11:19.196-05:00My research in France for #WWI #nurses, invitation to send info re: your relatives, friends who served!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My husband and I pose in Chateau-Thierry, France</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">along River Marne </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">during one of our research trips</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">for background to my novel, HEROIC MEASURES.</span></b></td></tr>
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For many decades, I have researched the lives and experiences of the 22,000+ American women who volunteered to join the American Armed Forces as nurses after Congress declared war in April 1917.<br />
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Beginning in the 1980s, I went to the Library of Congress and the National Archives to look at diaries, letters and photographs by and about these valiant ladies. <br />
Many of those records were presented to me in boxes, uncategorized, unannotated. Most of the photographs, torn and faded, came to me redacted. The logic there, presented by the War Department, was that no one wanted to see a wounded soldier, nor one who had experienced an amputation, not even if he sat next to a nurse in white. National moral and interest in the war had to be kept high and pictures of wounded soldiers would detract from that.<br />
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I also went to Carlisle Barracks in Pennsylvania. They too gave me unidentified pictures, old black photo albums, the contents spilling out into cardboard box containers.<br />
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Years later, I went to France. Often. Not only obtaining a background in period French and English medical procedures and challenges, I visited all the American cemeteries where our deceased men and women lie under the Linden trees in peace. I also went to Cantigny, Illinois to the First Division Museum and had extensive help from the director and the curators to further my knowledge. And as the 100th Anniversary of the USA's entry into WWI approached, I decided to finally sit down and write the novel about these women who had always inspired me.<br />
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In 2014, my husband and I went to Washington to join the Centennial Commission and I am happy to announce that next week, I will launch as editor the section of the American World War One Centennial Commission devoted to the Army Nurse Corps. Please visit this site:<br />
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I invite those of you who have friends, acquaintances and loved ones who served in this "war to end all wars" to send me their pictures, their biographies, their stories. For many of you, your knowledge of these people may be very limited. Those who served were modest, humble Americans who tended not to boast of their experiences. Most returned home after the Armistice, disavowing the might of cannons and guns to solve any problems. Even in our own family, we only recently discovered a great uncle who was a priest who volunteered to comfort the wounded and the dying. We now know he walked No Man's Land at night as all priests and chaplains did to give solace to those unable to leave the place where they had fallen.<br />
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I will happily relate the stories of your family and friends who served. <b>Here on this blog, I will post anything you send me about men who served in any capacity, soldier, YMCA, Salvation Army, veterinarian, doctor, dentist, independent volunteer or any other.</b> And if you like, I can refer you to the WWI Centennial person who will post your information about your loved one on the national site. The Library of Congress and the National Archives will keep the site up <b>in perpetuity</b> for all Americans to use in the centuries to come.<br />
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<b>For those of you who have stories, pictures, letters or memorabilia of women who served as nurses during this conflict, I will post that information (with your consent) on the national site.</b><br />
<b>Please send an email to me, tell me what you have in what format and we can discuss how I can post it. My email address is: wjpower@ymail.com</b><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475958677473058558noreply@blogger.com602400 Château-Thierry, France49.0459869 3.4026200000000748.962741400000006 3.24125850000007 49.1292324 3.56398150000007tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672030873173683674.post-3631677184371179142014-10-07T00:00:00.000-05:002014-10-07T00:00:03.349-05:00Famous HARLEM HELL FIGHTERS, 369th Infantry Regiment, Commemoration by Black Caucus; Era of "Separate but Equal"<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Soldiers of the 369th (15th N.Y.) who won the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croix_de_Guerre"><span style="color: #0645ad; letter-spacing: 0px;">Croix de Guerre</span></a> for gallantry in action, 1919.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Left to right. Front row: Pvt. Ed Williams, Herbert Taylor, Pvt. Leon Fraitor, Pvt. Ralph Hawkins. Back Row: Sgt. H. D. Prinas, Sgt. Dan Storms, Pvt. Joe Williams, Pvt. Alfred Hanley, and Cpl. T. W. Taylor</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> "Some of the colored men of the 369th (15th N.Y.) who won the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action." 1998 print. Records of the War Department General and Special. Staffs. (165-WW-127-8)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In the era of "Separate but equal" law in the United States, those black men and women who volunteered to serve in the US Army were trained, slept, ate and fought </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">in separate units from Caucasians.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">One of the most famous of those Army units was the 369th Infantry Regiment from New York City, or as they came to be known for their gallantry and for their extreme heroism in World War I, the Harlem Hellfighters.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The subject of many historical books and now of a best-selling graphic novel and soon to be a </span>movie<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> starring Will Smith, members of this infantry group distinguished themselves in France fighting with the French and alongside other US Army units. They were a significant force during the Meuse-Argonne offensive, uniquely never losing one foot of ground they gained and never losing a man as a prisoner of war.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">When they first landed in France, they were designated (as </span>other African-American units were) as laborers. Most black American Doughboys worked the docks, unloading supplies from ships in the ports of St. Nazaire and Bordeaux. (Please read HEROIC MEASURES for a fuller description of their work.) But at that time the French experienced a number of mutinies in their ranks and French General Staff asked our American General Pershing to help shore up their very thin front line. Pershing, never interested in weaving in any American soldiers into any foreign military force, assigned the 369th to the French command. The French, who had given their colonists in Africa French citizenship in the 1880s, readily accepted the black Americans alongside their fighting forces. The 369th fought "like hell" and they were noted among the French as fearless fighters. Weeks later, once French General Command thought their lines more secure, Pershing took the 369th back and put them on the front lines with other Doughboys in the Meuse-Argonne area.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">One </span>monument<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> to them stands in the Meuse-Argonne and another, a replica, in Harlem itself. The 369th has fought in other wars, </span>including<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> World War II and in Iraq and Afghanistan.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Recently, the Congressional Black Caucus honored the descendants of these heroic men at the opening of their recent conference.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"> US Archives: Harlem Hellfighters return home to parade in New York City February 17, 1919<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">. School children got the day off and if you examine this picture closely you will see a wonderful mix of black and white Americans applauding the 369th.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475958677473058558noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672030873173683674.post-67840087583812744282014-09-28T17:01:00.004-05:002014-09-28T17:01:36.171-05:00Australian PSnews reviews HEROIC MEASURES, praises novel for historical accuracy, addressing concepts still relevant today!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475958677473058558noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672030873173683674.post-45596186932746732002014-09-12T00:00:00.000-05:002014-09-12T00:00:00.509-05:00Emotional memories of war, PTSD, war wounds, facial wounds, plastic surgery, front line procedures and what we "learned" in WWI<div style="text-align: left;">
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Americans today associate PTSD with our Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. Truly, post-war trauma must have always been with us. We are, after all, human and violence of any kind offends us, especially when life and limb are violated. But in the Great War, more men survived the realities of bullets, shrapnel, gas and chemical attacks as well as disease than in any other war. The reason is, of course, that we had organized medical teams behind the lines at the ready.<br />
True that those teams had little in the way of medicines or technology to aid them in rapid response to aiding wounded. But the process of getting aid to a wounded soldier had begun.<br />
What do we know of that process?<br />
<b>1. Speed</b><br />
We learned that the sooner a medical team sees a man, they can not only bandage him and/or administer first aid, but ease his pain.<br />
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The need for speed meant armies developed the concept of stretcher bearers who carried wounded from the line backward to a first aid station. This may have been a TRIAGE station where wounded were assessed for survivability. Triage posts were often served by ambulances, either horse drawn or mechanized. These vehicles ran over rough terrain at slow speeds and men inside often had no morphine or other to ease their pain.<br />
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We learned that a proper supply of emergency materials was necessary the closer to the front a medical team operated. This included not only scissors, bandages, splints, gauze, but also fresh sterile water, iodine and other similar sterilizing ointments.<br />
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<b>3. Understanding of infection</b><br />
The Great War occurred during a period when medical researchers were first beginning to understand the process of bacterial infection and how to limit its virulence. No antibiotics were yet available. So cleansing a wound was a laborious process. Furthermore, the forensics of bullet trajectories and the erratic intrusions of shrapnel made removal of such foreign objects more of a guessing process than a logical one.<br />
X-rays were available but limited in their scope. Furthermore, not every medical team had use of one.<br />
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<b>4. Psychological effects of exposure to elements</b><br />
Not only was a soldier exposed to bombs, bullets, shrapnel, gas and chemicals, he was exposed to the actions and reactions of his comrades to these elements. Add to that the primitive conditions of living and working in knee deep mud, poor hygiene, poor diet and constant pressure to perform menial tasks, and the average soldier suffered physical and social challenges which few current-day non-combatants can identify with.<br />
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Often a wounded man required one or more secondary surgeries. Operations performed by medical teams close to the fighting lines were under their own pressures to work quickly. This could mean the wounded had received life-saving treatment but required advanced surgeries to enhance the primary surgery.<br />
To ensure continued care in a more secure area, the US Army (like other armies in this conflict) established hospitals well behind the lines. Americans established a base hospital system, staffed by entire teams from hospitals in the continental US and complemented by others from other area who joined those teams. These base hospitals were approximately 50 to 100 miles behind any front. So indeed a wounded man was transported even farther back of the line to a stationary base from which he could recuperate for an extended period. He was either certified completely recovered and returned to the front lines to fight again or sent on down the line to return home. In the US, he could be treated at another hospital or returned to his civilian home.<br />
No such entity as our current Veterans Administration existed at that time. A man was left to recuperate on his own. The VA was a post World War II entity created by the Congress.<br />
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<b>6. Rehabilitative services which were new</b><br />
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Physical therapy as a professional service was a new technique offered to amputees and those who had suffered physical incapacities. Much of this kind of therapy included training for new professions, such as weaving and metallurgy. For those men who were amputees, many were offered prosthetic devices for arms and legs.<br />
For those men who suffered facial deformities, plastic surgery was in its primary stages of development. And while many of these men opted to go into "retirement homes" because they did not wish to re-enter society, many of them volunteered to receive prosthetic masks. Many volunteered to be patients in novel procedures which today form the bedrock of our knowledge about efficacies in plastic surgery.<br />
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For more on plastic surgery, visit: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zxw42hv">http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zxw42hv</a><br />
For more on emotional trauma, shell shock and PTSD, visit: <a href="http://armsandthemedicalman.wordpress.com/">http://armsandthemedicalman.wordpress.com</a><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475958677473058558noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672030873173683674.post-63596570518707996292014-09-02T00:00:00.000-05:002014-09-02T00:00:04.592-05:00Battle of the Marne, September 1914, surprise attack on Paris and rallying of French <br />
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After Germany invaded Belgium in early August 1914 and France and Britain declared war on Germany and her allies, the Germans saw that to win the war they should attack France quickly and decisively. They hoped to win the war within days and thus end what might be their biggest nightmare—a two-front war. As they swarmed toward Paris, the French were surprised. And their troops, their 7th Division, had to be repositioned from their railhead to quickly stop the German advance.<br />
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In a valiant maneuver, the Army asked approximately <b>600 taxi drivers of Paris</b> to aid them by carrying <b>10,000 French troops</b> to the front lines. The taxi drivers were to meet their so-called passengers in the drive in front of the Les Invalides.<br />
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The farthest the Germans advanced was within 30 miles of Paris. At Meaux, they were stopped, thanks in part to these taxi drivers! (Do see the map here!)</div>
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And in Meaux today, you can and should take the train from <b>Gare de L'Est</b> for a 30 minute ride to this quiet little town to visit the most marvelous museum, <b>Musee de La Grande Guerre</b>! (Do see my other posts about it!)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475958677473058558noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672030873173683674.post-8044471601816810692014-08-07T00:00:00.000-05:002014-08-07T00:00:01.762-05:00Anti-German hatred among Americans as WWI begins; lynchings, riots, prejudice abounded<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ30R21-KKpHTQpJL87pfpP1DxnhvSVIV927jPMlLS2f_u-EKWQAZIBwOJiSJrYPobxUGnF3XeYWc_E_wMyY2lhgA06IQex3gJPpHHt6Ye4bfEQUCYUY1XHbnHjNfgvJeaSLmS-LpMLcg2/s1600/Unknown.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ30R21-KKpHTQpJL87pfpP1DxnhvSVIV927jPMlLS2f_u-EKWQAZIBwOJiSJrYPobxUGnF3XeYWc_E_wMyY2lhgA06IQex3gJPpHHt6Ye4bfEQUCYUY1XHbnHjNfgvJeaSLmS-LpMLcg2/s1600/Unknown.jpeg" /></a>When war broke out in Europe in 1914, many in the USA exhibited anti-German attitudes. Newspapers ran cartoons that vilified the Kaiser and his soldiers and allies. Yet more than 1/3 of Americans were of German descent.<br />
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If cartoons in magazines and newspapers were the most visible, other actions showed American fear and bias toward the British and French.<br />
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Riots broke out in many cities. In Chicago, one man was hanged on suspicion of being a German sympathizer.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIvZz7yoSGD5ZGJGNFwY7id-1WQ3Uo5LFTMpm6s5uDO4uxYVuCzL6S54vrCnZg5TOV-dpTyW6Qh3xtdj9DJC4XE81pVru9KR68XI0W1RKdYOYe7U0d-WxQWbY-tkBsNxeXu2VLUX9hSKnc/s1600/images-3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIvZz7yoSGD5ZGJGNFwY7id-1WQ3Uo5LFTMpm6s5uDO4uxYVuCzL6S54vrCnZg5TOV-dpTyW6Qh3xtdj9DJC4XE81pVru9KR68XI0W1RKdYOYe7U0d-WxQWbY-tkBsNxeXu2VLUX9hSKnc/s1600/images-3.jpeg" height="320" width="232" /></a>In my own German-American family where my father's family were 3rd generation Americans and where they spoke German, my grandfather warned his children to speak only English outside the house. My father remembers clearly that among his friends who were German-Americans, they had this warning, too.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475958677473058558noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672030873173683674.post-19203791884385085402014-08-03T00:00:00.000-05:002014-08-03T00:00:04.853-05:00August 4 "the lamps go out all over Europe" as we begin Commemorations of Start of The Great War<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Tomorrow night, August 4, in the United Kingdom at 10 p.m., all there will be asked to turn off their lights for one hour in commemoration of the official notice by British Prime Minister that the Cabinet had declared war on Germany August 4, 1914. The Lights Out project symbolizes the statement by then <span style="background-color: white; color: #3c3c3c; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3c3c3c; line-height: 24px;">British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey who said, </span><b style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; line-height: 24px;">“The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our life-time</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #3c3c3c; line-height: 24px;">."</span></span><br />
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Read more about this event here on the BBC site: <b><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-26767807">http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-26767807</a></b><br />
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And to read more about Grey's famous speech, do visit:<b> <a href="http://www.1914-1918.net/greys_speech.htm">http://www.1914-1918.net/greys_speech.htm</a></b><br />
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The world today has been shaped by that war in countless ways. One of them is a constant questioning by many of the necessity and value of spending blood, tears and treasure to kill others.<br />
On the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the event that ignited the conflict, leaders of those countries who went to war months later in 1914, gathered in Belgium. They promised each other then to work toward peace. Among them here you see the leaders of France, Germany, United Kingdom and Belgium.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2014/06/26/11425191/"><b>http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2014/06/26/11425191/</b></a></span></h4>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475958677473058558noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672030873173683674.post-29999336149021872072014-07-29T00:00:00.000-05:002014-07-29T00:00:00.522-05:00HEROIC MEASURES, digital, $1.99 only for Centennial of Declarations of War August 3-4<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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August 3-4, 1914 are dates considered the official start date of the hostilities given that many declared by writ or by action that they existed in state of war.<br />
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The assassinations of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo June 28, 1914 certainly began the tragic series of events that culminated in millions of men, women and children dying world wide in the 4 year conflict that followed.<br />
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<b>HEROIC MEASURES</b> tells the story of the 22,000+ American women who volunteered to serve in the Army Nurse Corps and sail to France to serve.<br />
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<b>What facts about them should you know and honor them for:</b><br />
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<li>They volunteered, but were considered Army recruits.</li>
<li>They earned half—yes, HALF—the pay of an Army private.</li>
<li>They worked shifts that lasted 12 hour, but as the battles intensified and many wounded came to their operating tents and base hospitals—they worked 24 and 36 hours. Many of them dropped from fatigue. Hundreds died of tuberculosis, diseases and influenza. None died in combat, but hundreds served right in back of the front lines.</li>
<li>This is the first time that American woman go abroad to serve in the thousands.</li>
<li>Because this is the period in American history when the civil rights rule was to have "separate but equal" facilities for African-Americans, the Army established a separate African American Army Nurse Corps to serve the African-American recruits. </li>
<li>A nurse signed a pledge to serve until the end of the war. She could not decide to go home at will, but had to remain in the Corps until the end. Just like a soldier.</li>
<li>I hope you will read my book for more insight into these marvelous women who served in a time of abject need.</li>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475958677473058558noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672030873173683674.post-14569130437958905552014-07-19T15:42:00.001-05:002014-07-19T15:42:06.152-05:00Ready for a Great American History lesson? WWI Centennial, April 1917<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Probably the least appreciated subject in school tends to be history. Just watch any of those "man on the street" interviews where a tv announcer asks someone who George Washington was and you can cringe.<br />
But the best way to teach history is to live it.<br />
And here, for your continuing education and delight, is a <i>BRIEF </i>list of a few groups and organizations creating really wonderful projects. Take note. Take yourself to these sites virtual and real. Better yet, take your children!<br />
<b>Learn from the past with these terrific programs:</b><br />
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1.<b> Go to</b> <b style="background-color: #dfd4ba; color: #0c0900; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://worldwar-1centennial.org/" style="color: #c14520; text-decoration: none;">http://worldwar-1centennial.org</a> </b><span style="color: #0c0900; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">t<b>o see the complete list</b>, to date. Return often and look for more in your city or town!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c0900; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><b>2. For August 3-4, when the official commemorations begin in Europe</b>, do see the wonderful lists of events our friends have developed here:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c0900; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Britain: </span></span><a href="http://www.greatwar.co.uk/events/2014-2018-events-uk.htm">http://www.greatwar.co.uk/events/2014-2018-events-uk.htm</a><br />
<span style="color: #0c0900; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">France: </span><a href="http://www.france.fr/en/institutions-and-values/first-world-war-centenary-1914-1918.html">http://www.france.fr/en/institutions-and-values/first-world-war-centenary-1914-1918.html</a><br />
<span style="color: #0c0900; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Belgium:</span><a href="http://www.visitflanders.us/what-to-do/events/great-war-centenary/events_2014-2018.jsp">http://www.visitflanders.us/what-to-do/events/great-war-centenary/events_2014-2018.jsp</a><br />
Germany: <b>1</b><a href="http://worldwar-1centennial.org/index.php/partners/international-government-commemoration-organizations/13-partners/84-100-jahre-erster-weltkrieg-site.html" style="font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self"><b><span style="color: black;">00 Jahre Erster Weltkrieg </span></b>http://www.volksbund.de<b><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></b></a><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"> <a href="http://worldwar-1centennial.org/index.php/partners/international-government-commemoration-organizations/13-partners/47-german-war-graves-commission-site.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">German War Graves Commission web site</a></span></b><br />
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">August 3 in the Alsace, the French and German heads of state meet to reaffirm their dedication to peace. </b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">They meet in the Alsace, one of the most hotly contested regions between the two countries. The meet beneath this sculpture of their ancestors carved into a mountain above the battlefield.</span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">How could this possibly be of interest to Americans?</span><br />
<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Well, I can tell you for myself that because my ancestors fled the Alsace in 1859 because of the constant warfare there, I find this interest in peace-keeping personally significant and gratifying to know.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">From CentenaryNews.com: "They will meet at Hartmannswillerkopf, where almost 30,000 soldiers from both sides died in a series of battles for control of a strategic promontory overlooking the Alsatian Plain and the Rhine Valley. Known to French soldiers of the Great War as the Vieil Armand battlefield, the area was declared a historic monument in 1921, and now serves as a symbol of Franco-German reconciliation."</span></span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">3. For those with a passion for more WWI info, do go to <b>World War One Historcal Association</b> site: </span><a href="http://ww1ha.org/"><b>ww1ha.org</b></a>. You may join for a nominal sum.<br />
They have a monthly magazine which you can read on line or in print, written by experts in the subject.<br />
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4. If you saw on TV the 3-part History Channel documentary about the Two World Wars, then you saw brief bios of G<b>eorge Patton,</b> the famous general who fought in the Argonne in World War One, and <b>Douglas MacArthur </b>who commanded the Rainbow Division, the unit that fought in Oise-Aisne and into Meuse-Argonne campaigns.<br />
For those of you who live in the Tidewater area, visit <b>MacArthur Memorial</b> in Norfolk, VA. <a href="http://www.macarthurmemorial.org/"><b>http://www.macarthurmemorial.org</b></a><br />
For a short and useful video of the causes of the war, do watch this 13 minute film:<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/p9rXwt6n1cU"><b>http://youtu.be/p9rXwt6n1cU</b></a><br />
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5. Bringing the remembrance of those who fought to the cities and towns in the USA, a few organizations have wonderfully informative programs. One of these is the <b>World War I Memorial Inventory Project,</b> <a href="http://wwi-inventory.org/"><b>wwi-inventory.org</b></a><br />
This project is very exciting, recording in one place for the first time all of the memorials, large and small, the many American commemorations of the war we entered late...but helped to win.<br />
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6. Similar to the Inventory Project, but focused on teaching American children the history of the men and women who helped fight the war is <b>Saving Hallowed Ground.</b> Led by Eugene P. Hough, this group will help communities organize and find the records of local military and volunteers who served in the war. Many of these men and women went abroad, fought and returned to little or no acclaim. With each school child choosing one name of a veteran and then learning about them and telling his or her classmates about that person, they will allow these men and women to live again in the hearts and minds of their countrymen. See <a href="http://www.savinghallowedground.com/"><b>www.SavingHallowedGround.com</b></a><br />
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If any of these groups or their projects appeal to you, do contact the organizers or leaders. They will be happy to assist you with any efforts you may wish to contribute to remembering those who served in World War One.<br />
Please return here for more of my list of great American WWI Commemoration groups and events!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475958677473058558noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672030873173683674.post-8751700571180096252014-07-02T09:49:00.001-05:002014-07-02T09:49:24.368-05:00WWI Centennial is upon us as we remember how millions went to war in summer 1914: USA's WWI Centennial Commission<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoJsmB1v7C8V8Sk6Ofd6AMv-AbNYr-c2DcGX8OEbf0spTDs_LnqqAmEJsooO9yogFOx28nqvEV2pjDS8m_xKEB_5lV7LDlQyF2uOqbI5Zp6kAo2Fm5in2X_s2YdCfVaGK2IWibFw-c-2Yv/s1600/DSC_7889a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoJsmB1v7C8V8Sk6Ofd6AMv-AbNYr-c2DcGX8OEbf0spTDs_LnqqAmEJsooO9yogFOx28nqvEV2pjDS8m_xKEB_5lV7LDlQyF2uOqbI5Zp6kAo2Fm5in2X_s2YdCfVaGK2IWibFw-c-2Yv/s1600/DSC_7889a.jpg" height="266" width="400" /></a> I had the honor of being selected to attend the WWI Congressional Centennial Commission's first meeting in Washington D.C. June 14.<br />
Yes, here I am with my book at the event that bright Saturday afternoon, offering my services to speak at museums and tell others about the 22,000+ women who served in the Army Nurse Corps during The Great War. Ten thousand of them sailed to France to serve there.<br />
You are going to be surprised and very pleased by the number of those involved in the American commemoration projects.<br />
And yes, I will list them here, then post their website links to the right in the sidebar for you. What's more, I am delighted to tell you more about each one. They are so varied—from those who are re-enactors to those who are discovering and preserving our long-lost WWI memorials to those who are developing projects for K-12.<br />
The first website you should visit is that of the <b>World War One Centennial Commission</b>. This is a group authorized by the U.S. Congress to coordinate all commemorative activities by groups and individuals for the war. <b><a href="http://worldwar-1centennial.org/">http://worldwar-1centennial.org</a></b><br />
This Commission will be the information center for American activities. If you know of an event or a private individual who has a special project or expertise, do send them to the website and encourage them to write to the Commission. Note too that this group was authorized without funding so all activities are voluntary.<br />
While those in Europe are already deep into the commemorative process, we here are just getting started. Understandable of course, since we Americans did not declare war against Germany and her allies until April 6, 1917.<br />
Then too, once we declared war, we really did not GO to war until approximately a year later. General Pershing demanded that he have at least 1 million men to go to the battlefront—and that conscription allotment was not fulfilled until approximately one year later. By the time we were in France in force of one million, it was the Spring 1918. No, Pershing did not go to war with the Army he had. He knew would be disastrous. Furthermore, he advocated educating his staff first, sending his artillery and cavalry (let that read <i>mechanized</i> forces, such as they were) into situations with French and British troops along their lines. He wanted his troops to benefit from what the British and French had learned.<br />
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One of the first groups to go was the first hospital to be organized to go abroad. From Baltimore Maryland (my home town),<b> Johns Hopkins University</b> medical staff volunteered and organized as <b>Base Hospital #1</b>. I post here a photograph given me by <b>First Division Museum curators in Cantigny Illinois</b> of the interior of that hospital. Do note the wooden construction, the metal beds, the uniformity of linens and blankets and do notice especially the nurse in the aisle working with orderlies.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475958677473058558noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672030873173683674.post-69152393660860991372014-07-01T11:43:00.001-05:002014-07-01T12:13:49.754-05:00How heroic are you? Excerpt from HEROIC MEASURES about American nurses in WWI France! Out now!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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How heroic are you?</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Would
you volunteer to travel thousands of miles from home with others you don’t know
to live in tents, wash your hair in your helmet and work 12-24 hours each day?</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
the Great War, thousands of women did.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>HEROIC
MEASURES</b> is the novel that shows you how American nurses went to war, how
they lived and served—and how they loved.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For
nurse Gwen Spencer, fighting battles is nothing new. An orphan sent to live
with a vengeful aunt, Gwen picked coal and scrubbed floors to earn a living.
But when she decides to become a nurse, she steps outside the boundaries of her
aunt’s demands…and into a world of her own making.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Leaving
her hometown for France, she helps doctors mend thousands of brutally injured
Doughboys under primitive conditions. Amid the chaos, she volunteers to go ever
forward to the front lines. Braving bombings and the madness of men crazed by
the hell of war, she is stunned to discover one man she can love. A man she can
share her life with.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But
in the insanity and bloodshed she learns the measures of her own desires. Dare
she attempt to become a woman of accomplishment? Or has looking into the face
of war and death given her the courage to live her life to the fullest?</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Excerpt: Copyright, Jo-Ann Power, 2013. All rights reserved.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">When she did return to
the tent, she had Colonel Scott in tow. She’d told him nothing except their
German was now awake, aware and spoke English. She thought it best to let the
officer discern the veracity of the man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Nurse Spencer tells me
you speak our language. Might I ask you where you learned it?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“At my mother’s knee,
Colonel. I am Captain Adam Fairleigh, His Majesty’s Forces. Forgive me, sir, I
would greet you appropriately but our erstwhile nurse has strapped me to the
bed.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Then you must need
restraining,” Scott replied. “What the hell is this that you say you’re with
the Brits?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“I am, sir. I am
attached to General Pershing’s staff, Chaumont.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“As what? How do you
speak Hun so well and why in God’s name are you in one of their uniforms?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Fairleigh arched both
brows, looking at the short American down his very elegant straight nose.
“Liaison to the American Commander, sir. Since December. I speak excellent
German because my maternal grandmother came from Saxe-Coburg, the same
principality as our late Prince Albert. I speak German, sir, as well as I do
English. Before the war, that was no crime, but an asset.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“I see. And how do you
come by this uniform?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Their patient was no
longer so quick or cocky. “I took it off a dead man.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Gwen swallowed hard at
the savage image of this man removing clothing from a corpse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“I had managed to crawl
across a zone where they were not shelling. I thought if I could reach one of
their forward trench lines, then I—”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Preposterous. How did
you get that far in your own uniform?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“I went in peasants’
rags. Our lines abut an old village where only a few huts still stand.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Why discard your rags
for a German captain’s uniform?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Well, sir, he was not
only dead but conveniently my size.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">That shut the man up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Gwen could only marvel
at this creature in the bed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“When I came upon their
trench, I could hear their conversation below. Luck was with me. That bunker
was a communications center. If I could get in there, I might learn quite
enough to make my mission worthwhile. Of course, I couldn’t do that, couldn’t
speak German to them and have them believe I was one of them if I wore French
farmer’s culottes, could I? So I crept around…among their dead whose bodies
they had not retrieved.” He stared at the American with blank eyes. “I happened
upon the captain who seemed my height. Then I waited until night fell and—”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">He halted, regarding Gwen
once more. “I buried my rags and crawled into their trench. They accepted my
story. I was privy to their orders that were to move their gun emplacements.
Then, as you can expect, I was stuck with them, considered one of them. I had
to run with them. I had no opportunity to escape until two nights later when
the French opened a barrage in our sector.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">He lifted a hand, let
it drop to the sheets. “I managed to hang back when they retreated with their
line. I set out to No Man’s Land and prayed to Christ I’d find my way across to
French lines. This took me…I’m not clear. A night. Two?” He shrugged. “Here I
am.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Who is your American
liaison in Pershing’s staff?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Colonel Samuel
Rustings.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Scott nodded, a hint of
a smile curling his lips. “I see.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“I gather you know
him.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Same class at West
Point.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Well, then. If you
telegraph him, he will verify who I am and my mission. He knew I went out, you
see.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“A man from
headquarters is already on his way here.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Splendid.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“We thought we had
ourselves a Heinie.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">The man’s mouth quirked
in bitterness. “Sorry to disappoint you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Oh, you’ll do, sir.
What did you say your name was?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Gwen noticed that Scott
had not addressed him by his rank.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Fairleigh.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“We’ll see what our man
from Chaumont has to say about you. In the meantime, my private is outside the
tent.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Fairleigh inclined his
head in acknowledgement of his warder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Nurse. Finish up here.
Untie him. ”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Thank you, Sir.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Good day, then.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">When Scott had
departed, Fairleigh regarded her with appraising eyes. “What is your name?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Spencer.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Nice name. Spencer.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Thank you.” She pulled
her cart closer to his bed. No matter who he was, he was to be made whole as
efficiently as she could.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“I am sorry, Spencer,
for being an ass.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">She saw on his face
honest contrition. Unaccustomed to apologies from those who insulted her, she
had no reason to trust the value of his. Yet she gave him credit for the
courtesy of it. He had done such a brave act. What kind of man would do as he
had done? A fool. An opportunist. A man who saw this was work which he and he
alone was best suited for? Was that hubris? Cunning? Or duty? If indeed, he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">had </i>done it. If he hadn’t lied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Spencer, I am grateful
for your help. Please do patch me up. I’d hate to lose my hands because I
lacked good manners.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">He was making
conversation to heal their rift. She picked through her gauze looking for the
needle she had misplaced when she had left him. Brusqueness served her where
experience did not. “Lie back then and be good.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Chilly. Do you they
teach you to be frosty like that in America?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Yes.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">He feigned a shiver.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">She fought a smile.
“Put that spoon between your teeth. This needle will hurt.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“I wager it will hurt
less than your German. You should have warned me that it was so bad.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Careful.” Fingering
her needle, she began to thread the eye. “You need me to be gentle as I sew.
Besides,”—she could taunt him now that he was rational and at her mercy—“I
doubt I’ll ever sing with you again.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“I will endeavor to
ensure you do.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">His attempt to charm
her flattered her. She would do well to ignore it. “This is war, sir. Neither
of us has the time.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Then sing to me
instead.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“When I put my needle
in your skin, I will hear<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> you</i> sing
and off key, too.” She threatened him, hiding all the humor his compliment
inspired. “The spoon, sir. Now!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“The story has a strong, riveting current that pulls the
reader under. Gwen is a plucky, determined sharp-shooter that questions
surgeons and army officials alike. She and the nurses by her side set a
beautiful example for readers of the true essence of nursing. This is who
nurses are, this is what nurses do.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #262626;">“</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Heroic-Measures-Jo-Ann-Power/dp/1628300876/ref=tmm_pap_title_0"><span style="color: #18204e;">Heroic Measures</span></a><span style="color: #262626;">” is a worthy
portrait of nursing life, both in the French battlefields of World War I and in
the United States at the turn of the century. And Gwen Spencer and her fellow
nurses are a testament to the young women who risked literal life and limb, in
the name of duty, to save those wounded in battle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"> With more than 30 years' researching the American experience in France during The Great War, I lead this tour of the American battlefields of The Great War. Designed for everyone who has an interest in this first massive American military experience abroad, this tour gives you a <i>comprehensive</i> look at the war before the United States declared war in April 1917 until most troops and support services departed in the summer of 1919.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"> Managed by prestigious travel corporation <a href="http://www.kerdowney.com/">KER and DOWNEY</a>, the tour features museums, American battlefields, memorials, and cemeteries with talks by various experts.<br /> Staff include me as the historical guide, a local French expert and the van driver.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Brief schedule:</u></span></h2>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Land Only Includes:</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 13 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Transfer - Meet and Assist at Paris airport (CDG)<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 13 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Transfer - Charles De Gaulle airport (CDG) to Paris Hotel<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 13 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Dinner in Paris<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 13 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
-<b> </b>1 night in <b>Paris</b> at <b>Marriott Ambassador Opera - Standard
Room - BB</b> - 12 x Room<br /><b><o:p></o:p></b></span><i><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';"> </span></i><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">-
<i>Includes breakfast</i></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 14 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Transfer - Paris to Compiegne<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 14 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Visit to the Museum de la Grande Guerre<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 14 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Dinner at Hotel<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 14 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
-<b> </b>2 nights in <b>Picardy</b> at <b>Hotel Les Beaux Arts - Standard Room
- BB</b> - 12 x Room<br /><b><o:p></o:p></b></span><i><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';"> </span></i><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">-
<i>Includes breakfast</i></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 15 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Half Day Cantigny Battlefield Tour<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 15 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Lunch on Excursion<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 15 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Half Day Armistice Museum Tour<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 16 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Half Day Oise-Aisne American Cemetery Tour<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 16 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Transfer - Compiegne to Reims<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 16 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Lunch on Excursion<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 16 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Dinner at Hotel<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 16 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
-<b> </b>2 nights in <b>Champagne</b> at <b>Hotel de la Paix - Standard Room -
BB</b> - 12 x Room<br /><b><o:p></o:p></b></span><i><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';"> </span></i><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">-
<i>Includes breakfast<br /> </i></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 17 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Half Day Belleau Woods Battlefield Tour<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 17 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Lunch on Excursion<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 17 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Visit to Chateau-Thierry Monument<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 18 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Transfer - Reims to Verdun<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 18 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Dinner at Hotel<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 18 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
-<b> </b>4 nights in <b>Meuse</b> at <b>Chateau des Monthairons - Standard Room
- BB</b> - 12 x Room<br /><b><o:p></o:p></b></span><i><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';"> </span></i><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">-
<i>Includes breakfast</i></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 19 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Half Day St. Mihiel American Cemetery Tour<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 19 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Lunch on Excursion<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 19 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Half Day Mont Sec Memorial Tour<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 19 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Dinner at Hotel<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 20 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Half Day Meuse-Argonne Cemetery Tour<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 20 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Lunch on Excursion<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 20 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Half Day Montfaucon Memorial Tour<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 20 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Excursion - Dinner at Hotel<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Oct 22 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">
- Transfer - Verdun to Paris</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475958677473058558noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672030873173683674.post-45546097920969777832014-03-08T11:19:00.001-06:002014-03-08T11:19:05.855-06:0018+ Days In AEF's footsteps, Verdun to Fort Douaumont, lost villages and Ossuary<div style="text-align: left;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In center of Verdun stands a statue to its citizens<br />
who endured attacks on their city during<br />
La Grande Guerre. She is dressed in period clothing.</td></tr>
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My husband's and my visit to Verdun included not only The Citadel but a trip up into the hills which surround that very important city. Nestled as it is in the hollow of the Meuse, Verdun offers an easy access down that river into the heart of central France. Holding it from all attackers was a vital strategy for the French in any conflict.<br />
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Today, the old city is a vibrant place, peaceful on the quai beside the flowing waters of the Meuse. At the medieval bridge stands the carved monument to the French Soldiers who served and defended the city throughout the four years of war.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Five French soldiers on the Quai in Verdun: Artilleryman, Miner, Cavalryman, Poilu, Airman</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Land near Fort Douaumont marked by foxholes and shell craters.</b></td></tr>
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Driving up into the hills surrounding the city, we passed numerous placards naming villages destroyed, their inhabitants never to return to their land. (In fact, on the cover of my novel HEROIC MEASURES, is one such landscape.) But as we drive, we also notice another heart-rending quality. The land is pockmarked still with foxholes, trench lines and huge shell holes. We are reminded visually that men fought, suffered and died here. In fact, remains of many of them are still being unearthed today. Only months ago, a person walking the dense forests here came across a shallow grave containing the skeletal remains of quite a few French soldiers. do enlarge the photo here to see the contours I write of.<br />
Fort Douaumont was one of a series of battlements ringing the city of Verdun. Today, only two remain, Douaumont and Vaux.<br />
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Built in late 1880s, Douaumont is underground. Carved into the hillside, it is bone-chillingly cold, damp, foul smelling and in general extremely unpleasant. Yet, thousands of French served in this fort and fought in some of the most bitter and costly engagements of the war. If you visit—and I suggest you do—you will definitely want to take a tour. Especially interesting to me are two areas: the gun turret room and the latrines. But you definitely come away from here stunned that men endured such hardships for long months at a time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Entrance to Fort Douaumont</b></td></tr>
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A short drive away lies the Ossuary and Cemetery. Finished in 1932, this mausoleum houses the remains of an estimated 130,000 French and German soldiers who fought over Verdun and at the surrounding areas in the four years of la Grande Guerre. (An estimated 700,000 French and German fought over Douaumont, incurring more than 230,000 casualties.)<br />
A truly enormous building, the Ossuary overwhelms you with grief to stand and consider the loss of so many whose names are unknown but whose loss certainly grieved those who did know them, yearn for them and suffer at their passing. The tower stands 150 feet high, truly colossal as you stand beneath it. The cloisters to each side reach over 450 feet long.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Central tower of the Ossuary. This scaffolding you see </b><br />
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Surrounding this structure is the largest French cemetery for those who died in World War One. More than 16,160 men repose here. One plot contains those whose names are known. Another, those who are known but to God. When the Ossuary was built, families of those deceased whose names were known contributed to the fund to bury those whose names were not.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Front entrance to Ossuary</b></td></tr>
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Here pictured are a few of the graves. But other separate sections include a plot for Jewish soldiers and another for muslims. France had one of the largest contingents of colonial troops fighting with French nationals during the war.<br />
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To one corner of the cemetery is this fine sculpture of a French soldier at rest at last.<br />
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We talk so often of the millions who died during la Grande Guerre. Twenty-two million soldiers and pilots. Six million civilians whose homes and farms were shattered, traipsed over, bombed, exploded in mines. Entire towns were obliterated, all their residents fleeing the carnage. Many of those towns never were reinhabited. In fact, in eastern France, on many hillsides only a placard marks the site of where a prosperous village one stood.<br />
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But animals served the war too. Millions of them. Canaries not only sang to wounded, but also pidgins carried messages. Dogs ran No Man's Land with messages, aiding chaplains whose grim duty was to find the wounded and the dead amid the hideous debris in the killing fields. Horses too served by the hundreds of thousands. These noble animals not only rode in early cavalry charges, but also pulled huge guns and hauled thousands of pounds of shells, bullets, rifles and even food to those in the front lines. One endearing photo here shows the hundreds of ill and wounded horses in the Blue Cross Hospital of the French.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNcBtqRO7C_UYi2t6eE-ETs3S_B0iN67POXSygwObPtDCLPiTq5D7b4t8L26OuOvO2QJe-2u3KOie2dVIrvMqMTu-CyDYvfFmLWGwJAg_F2DQl6B9MG7OvXFQuMV-b6Qqtt7IuZboZMW26/s1600/Sergeant_Stubby_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNcBtqRO7C_UYi2t6eE-ETs3S_B0iN67POXSygwObPtDCLPiTq5D7b4t8L26OuOvO2QJe-2u3KOie2dVIrvMqMTu-CyDYvfFmLWGwJAg_F2DQl6B9MG7OvXFQuMV-b6Qqtt7IuZboZMW26/s1600/Sergeant_Stubby_3.jpg" /></a> In the American Army was one extraordinary Sergeant. A terrier named Stubby served first in the Chemin des Dames area in 1917. Yes, he was an American pooch who even captured a German soldier in the Argonne all by his little ferocious self!<br />
With acute hearing, he warned his comrades about in-coming shells and often ran with men into No Man's Land. For all these feats and more, Stubby earned the Medal of Honor from the American Humane Society. Shown above in his uniform, he wears his medals proudly. After all, a guy must dress correctly when he is to stand in review…or meet the president, as he often did!</div>
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My husband, wise soul that he is, often says he wants to read the essence of the action in a novel. Please, he tells me, do not hang the draperies for me. Nor tell me their color. Tell me about them if they are useful to the plot.<br />
Only Margaret Mitchell used draperies to best fictional purpose: She took them down, altered them and made them into a dress for vain Scarlett so that she might seduce Rhett Butler.<br />
Well, that brings me to the novelists' dilemma: What precisely are the drapes and how do I know?<br />
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Here are a few rules of selection from one who has written many hundreds of thousands of words, fiction and non. Yes, non-fiction requires a bit of discretion, too, when writing.<br />
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<b>1. Does the fact fit best in this spot, that one...or not at all?</b><br />
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<u>Illustration:</u> I had a few facts about devastation of the French countryside circa 1917-1918 from many primary sources. Where and how to use them?<br />
Why?<br />
I did sprinkle them in at various points to show the journey Gwen Spencer was taking from her peaceful life in Pennsylvania, USA, to the war-torn countryside of north eastern France.<br />
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I use the scarcity of population to shade in desertion of the land far back of the line.<br />
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Many pages later, I use the ruins of a village to show how war destroyed homes and entire towns.<br />
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Much later, as Gwen disembarks on a train at <b>Gare d'lest</b> in Paris, I have her see how hundreds crowd into the cars, their arms full carrying their clothes, a dog or a chicken, their eyes glossy with despair as they flee bombs and advancing armies.<br />
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<b>2. Does the particular detail add any color or drama that I don't already have? Or is its addition overload?</b><br />
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<u>Illustration:</u> I have a few sources that describe how British destroyers came out at Portsmouth to accompany US warships on route to St. Nazaire and/or Bordeaux.<br />
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I showed how intimidating it was to someone like Gwen who had never seen a warship so huge and I had already painted in a tragic event on that warship. My conclusion was that if I added this fact of British destroyers, I would minimize the "lesson" learned at the end of that tragic chapter.<br />
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I decided to forgo the British convoy and instead open the next chapter on the docks in St. Nazaire. Here, Gwen sees an unusual sight that is more intriguing and raises more questions for her to answer than to have put her out to sea, literally, with the British escorts.<br />
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<b>3. In a women's historical, just how realistic should I be when describing wounds, surgery and death?</b><br />
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This is the BIG Question which I see so many authors (romance, mystery, fantasy—yes, fantasy!) dealing with as they use war as backdrop to their fiction.<br />
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<u>Illustration: </u>In my research, I read numerous first hand accounts by nurses who hated the smell of unwashed bodies, urine and feces. One nurse unwraps a man's bandages and his brains fall out. She is horrified and shoves them back in, not knowing what to do, realizing years later, that he must have been dead already. Another recounts the men who crawled in to her tent, clutching their own entrails in their hands. These things happened. They are a part of any war. They were a part of this war.<br />
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Trust me, to have included all of that in raw detail would have raised a ruckus among women readers (my main target audience), even among many who read historical fiction and praise accuracy. I have one review already from a woman who has roundly criticized me for <br />
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<b>Triage station, 42nd Division, Suippes, France, July 17, 1918</b></h2>
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how "gory" my descriptions are. THAT surprises me. But many will pick up a book, expecting one thing and becoming angry at the author who does not provide precisely that. I personally thought I went out of my way to make the book as useful to set the scene as possible. I knew I was not writing an apologia, and I was definitely not writing a blood and guts battle guide for those, especially men who like to read stories of battles.<br />
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An author's choices are myriad. The ones that become a part of a novel are the most useful "translations" of fact to the devices of the plot and nuances of character growth.<br />
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Hardened by her life with her embittered, greedy aunt, newly-qualified nurse Gwen Spencer is determined to devote her skills to the wounded soldiers of World War I. Convinced she has the “guts, nerves of steel, and tremendous heart” necessary, she is still unprepared for the horrors of the military hospitals and front-line aid stations. Her only relief from those horrors is a best friend from home, and the romantic attentions of Richard, a British nobleman whose family has been deeply damaged by the results of the conflict.</div>
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Jo-Ann Power has succeeded in depicting her chosen characters, setting, and plot vividly, and I was completely enthralled. I was particularly moved by the way she conveys the various ways this “war to end all wars” ravages all it touches. Gwen and Richard earn their happy ending, but a number of ongoing plot threads set the stage for the second book in the trilogy.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475958677473058558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672030873173683674.post-41303412679219157542013-12-18T15:41:00.000-06:002014-06-10T15:57:15.466-05:00Joint Forces Journal calls HEROIC MEASURES "a riveting and historically accurate novel!"<b style="font-style: italic;">Joint Forces Journal</b>, a privately published newsletter for members of the United States Armed Forces of the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard praises <b>HEROIC MEASURES</b> as "…a riveting and historically accurate novel."<br />
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This review appeared in their latest issue, and you may view it in its original form at this url link: <a href="http://www.jointforcesjournal.com/_jfj.php?READ=yes&which=1048"><b>http://www.jointforcesjournal.com/_jfj.php?READ=yes&which=1048</b></a><br />
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But you may also view it here as I attempt to take screen shots and piece them together for you!<br />
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I am delighted with the honor of their review and extremely delighted to have their praise.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475958677473058558noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672030873173683674.post-49551062249056036812013-11-20T00:00:00.000-06:002013-11-20T00:00:02.353-06:00Lafayette Escadrille, Lex Learner in HEROIC MEASURES flies for Army Aero Squadron & beginning of American Air Force <br />
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The volunteers who went to France before the USA declared war in April 1917 were men who had enjoyed the luxury of learning how to fly aeroplanes. Most of these men were college students from well-to-do families. After all, flight instruction was expensive!<br />
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Because the United States had declared itself a neutral country, any Americans volunteering had to belong to a "neutral" unit. Hence, they joined the "unofficial" flying unit of the French aero fleet. The French were canny and called it after the famous French aristocrat who had been a leader in the American forces aiding George Washington in the Revolutionary War.<br />
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Aeroplanes were relatively new transportation, produced in greater numbers only at the beginning of the 1910 decade. Planes were fragile, constructed of plywood, a few bits of metal and the gas tank. Those who flew understood that they had to be very cognizant of wind, shear, temperatures and storms. They also knew that once off the ground, flying a mile or two in the air was extremely cold. All those photos we see of men in leather jackets with huge scarves around their necks is no fabrication! They were frozen up there—and suffered colds, pneumonia and massive ear infections as a result. (So does Lex Learner in HEROIC MEASURES!)<br />
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Accidents, too, were very common. Only as manufacturers took advice from experienced pilots did they begin to produce planes that were sturdier and offered more functionality. The Germans produced quite a few models before and during the war, including the Fokker and Junker, both useful in bombing raids. The French produced a few, too, the most famous being the Nieuport, used by our Escadrille and by the men in that unit who transferred to the new US Aero Squardrons when we declared war.<br />
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In wartime, the probability of accidents increased. And as the men of the Escadrille learned from their French cohorts how to fly amid cannon fire, they also learned how to take reconnaissance pictures<br />
and drop bombs. As the war wended on, they also learned how to use the newest of the deadly technology—the machine gun.<br />
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Life expectancy was short. In fact, most of the men who originally served in the Escadrille died in service. ONe of the few to survive, and one of the most famous, is Eddie Rickenbacker. He went on to found a major airline in the United States. ____<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475958677473058558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672030873173683674.post-5565070045625294122013-11-17T00:00:00.000-06:002013-12-05T11:57:29.644-06:00German Cemetery in Consenvoye, France in Argonne. Why are they here?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Stark black crosses mark the graves of 11,148 German soldiers who died in the Battles for Meuse-Argonne in Autumn 1918 in France.<br />
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Here near the American Cemetery of the Meuse-Argonne rest these soldiers along the highway outside the very tiny town of Consenvoye, France. As you can see here, the plots are not as well tended as the Americans'. We understand this decision.<br />
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But when I talk about this quiet little cemetery along the road to our own huge one, many ask why these German soldiers are laid to rest here.<br />
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One reason, we learn from memoirs of American soldiers, nurses and ambulance drivers, is that the Germans retreated very rapidly in the Argonne offensive. They left, rushing to their homeland, leaving behind huge amounts of armaments and supplies. One account noted that the Americans had to climb into trucks to pursue them, the Germans were running so quickly. They had no time to bury their dead.<br />
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In fact, American burial teams did this for them. And while it is true that they buried their foes' bodies after interring their own deceased, nonetheless the Americans did do this.<br />
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For more on this, please do read a stirring account of this in <b>Brannon Simon's </b>edited version of his grandfather's diary (one I highly recommend). The buy link for his wonderful book, <b>THAT's WAR</b>, is: <a href="http://www.thatswar.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=179&Itemid=230" id="yui_3_13_0_1_1384015217749_12529" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="background-color: white; color: #196ad4; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">http://www.thatswar.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=179&Itemid=230</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>"In this soldiers' cemetery rest 11,148 German soldiers."</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>I took this picture in late April when the dandelions are in bloom, a contrast to the serene black crosses.</b></td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475958677473058558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672030873173683674.post-74657215368795257512013-11-13T00:00:00.000-06:002014-06-10T16:02:52.890-05:00Mobile hospitals, Surgical teams, X-ray trucks, Sterilizers and more!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>US Ambulance, circa WWI, holds 4 men!</b></td></tr>
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How do you best save wounded men if:<br />
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1. they are sometimes carried by 4-6 stretcher bearers for 1 mile or more before getting to ambulance<br />
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2. they must travel over muddy, shell-warped lanes for 3 to 5 miles back of line to get to a sterilized operating room<br />
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3. only at night, lest the enemy see the ambulance line during the daylight and bomb them<br />
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4. in ambulances that hold either four or eight<br />
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5. with only barest field dressings on utterly horrific head, chest and intestinal areas<br />
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6. with limited morphine pills<br />
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7. not enough front line surgeons<br />
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8. who have limited facilities (surgical supplies, no needles, no ether, no nurses, orderlies only...)<br />
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The United States Army Medical Corps answered these challenges by creating mobile hospital units. These teams of expert surgeons, nurses and orderlies formed 7-member teams who volunteered to go directly in back of the front lines of Doughboys.<br />
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These men and women were screened to be the most professional, stable, healthy individuals who had proven their resilience and talents in the first months that Americans had gone abroad. Then, as the need for medical teams to be much closer to the wounded became vital, mobile surgical units were created.<br />
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Composed of one surgeon, one assistant, two nurses, one nurse anesthetist and two orderlies, this team would receive a wounded man and immediately operate on him.<br />
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To ensure that this occurred within minutes, the mobile unit also consisted of admitting officers who were trained in triage, x-ray technicians and ambulance drivers who took the post-op patients and transported them farther down the line to another mobile unit or a larger facility, also mobile, called an evacuation hospital.<br />
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<b>Want to read about one in action in the Meuse-Argonne in November 1918 during the Big Push?</b><br />
<b>Read HEROIC MEASURES, out now.</b><br />
<b>In there, you see how the main character, Gwen Spencer from Scranton Pennsylvania joins a mobile surgical unit and survives the rigorous PUSH in The Great War.</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>A group of trucks in a mobile unit would pull into a clearing and go to work!<br />This was their configuration.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Even men of the ambulance units had to pause to line up and get a bath! Note that water had <br />"to be carried several blocks an coal is scarce. Rambillard, France, Oct. 23, 1918</b></td></tr>
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