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"Never have I had such a heart ache as I had after listening to this man's tale."
-- Nurse Marion Doane to her mother and sister, March 5, 1917
Marion Doane was working as an operating room supervisor outside Paris, France, when the war began. The staff of her American-run hospital treated wounded troops and created an ambulance service. She had been treating soldiers for over two years when she head a Frenchman give an account of being a prisoner of war and of the abuse Germans inflicted upon French, English, and Russian prisoners. Stories like this helped cast Germany as an enemy in the eyes of the Americans. |