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it]- ' Hmmk SSbI II. Army School days — at Walter Reed. Days vigorous, diligent, bustling with study, duty, fun. From that October 5th, 1921, when we, as members of the Class of 1924 gathered shyly in the dining room for our first Army mess, to the memorable June afternoon when we marched proudly (yet with fast-pounding hearts), in the Formal Garden to receive our diplomas — a long procession of days whose imprints still are bright on Memory ' s pages. There is the first day on the wards — how we strove for that calm aspect of efficiency! — but fingers turned to thumbs with the eyes of the patients upon us! Our first Christmas with its carol singing on the wards at dawn; the capping party— with ne.xt day ' s self-consciousness, that feel of the thing on the head ! The first scrub in the operating room ; that first day on the cart. Then, affiliation— sad day of part- ing with the dear, familiar faces at Walter Reed, the nostalgia of those early days in other hospitals. Glad homecomings from these temporary e.xiles. with renewed delight m the dear home surroundings: Japanese cherry blossoms, dew-laden at dawn; Old Glory undulating in a gentle noontide breeze before the Main Building ' s stately columns; the bugle ' s plaintive note breaking night ' s calm, sounding taps. Army School trainmg days abounding in comradeship, endeavor, achievement— which even a proces- sion of years and three thousand miles of distance cannot dim for me. as I live again those days with the Class of 1924 at dear old Walter Reed. loxE VE France Covle, Class of ' 24. [122]
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and those who did. Fellows hopping around on one leg, courteous, cheerful, brave till it nearly made one cry. That ' s all right. 1 can manage, nurse! Let me help you turn the mattress! I don ' t need to pull it all to pieces. But there will be wrinkles in the sheet. That doesn ' t matter. AVhy, I ' ve slept in the trenches. If the soldier not only made his bed but turned his mattress before he made it, we awarded him in our hearts the Crois de Guerre and the Legion of Honor. After inspection came dressings, with twenty or thirt stumps laid on as many sterile towels, waiting for the doctor and the dressing cart. A dismal atmosphere you would have thought. Not a bit of it. Those were the days when men compared Walter Reed to front line hospitals or the trenches and thanked their lucky stars. Jokes ran up and down the wards like wildfire and tunes were on men ' s lips. I remember two chaps, two legs between them, singing responsively : Won ' t you forgive? (Interjected) Never! Won ' t you forget? (Emphaticall) ' ) Never! (Sentimentally) I ' m sorry, dear — (Pathetically) So sorry, dear! (Tragically) I ' m sorry I made you cry! There were mouth organs, guitars and phonographs and on one ward Klimic, the Pole, played Humoresque on his violin. It was later, as the months wore on, and septic wounds would not heal in spite of Dakin ' s, that the atmosphere became gloomy. Men began to compare themselves, and no wonder, with chaps who had come out of the war unscathed and had gone happily to their homes. There was grousing on the wards and grousing in Quarters. There was not enough for us to do ith graduate nurses pouring back from. France. More than half the Army School packed up their bags and went home. The rest of us went home too — on vacations — wearing our street uniforms and traveling with tickets given us free by Uncle Sam. Dorothea M. Hughes. Class ' 21. [121]
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