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    "ocrText": "June 23, 1943\nMrs. George T. Douglas\nNursing Service\nNational Headquarters\nAmerican Red Cross\nMy dear Mrs. Douglas:\nAs the months go by and we know that we cannot predict any date when\nRed Cross nurses will be laying aside uniforms and going back to civilian\ndress, I find that there are some principles connected with the wearing of\na uniform which I do not think you have thought about enough so that you\nbelieve they are of real importance. To me they are very important, and\nthat is why I am writing you about our Red Cross nurse's uniform today.\nI confess that I have been shocked and hurt at certain large gatherings I\nhave attended where Army, Navy, and Red Cross nurses were together, at the\nlack of meticulous observation of Red Cross nurse uniform regulations in\ncontrast to the Army and Navy.\nA nurse's uniform stand in the eyes of the public for certain qualities\ninseparable from an ideal nurse. A Red Cross nurse's uniform stands for\nthese qualities and also for those inseparable from war nursing. Briefly,\nthis-so great a desire to help the wounded fighting man that one is will-\ning to undergo great danger and hardship in order to do so. The American\nRed Cross is as you know sesi-governmental. The President of the United\nStates is our Red Cross President and we act under his orders. Our Red\nCross nurse's uniform, therefore, worn only in time of war, stand for our\ngovernment in a similar manner to that worn by Army and Navy nurses. It\nmeans that those who wear it conform to a pattern of service set down by\nsuperior officers. Honor, integrity, obedience, unselfish devotion to\nduty, courage, that kind of patience which results in unrelenting persis-\ntence in our efforts to relieve our patients, the best possible use of our\nintelligence sometimes hard to exercise under the discipline inseparable\nfrom war; all these qualities are associated with the Red Cross nurse's\n6\nuniform. It is a symbol of them. It is an identification of us with the\ngreat army of Red Cross nurses sho went before us and who have left us a\nheritage too precious to be talked about very much"
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