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    "ocrText": "to\n?\n+\nH\na\nJanuary 11, 1943\nM\nMiss Ida M. Britton\nIst General Medical Laboratories\nam\na\ns.o.s. ; A.P.O.; 505\nNew York, New York\na\n(\nMy dear Miss Britton:\nWith the transfer of the American Red Cross-Harvard Field Hospital\nfor Communicable Diseases to the United States Army, this service of\nRed clusion. Cross Twenty nurses nurses have returned to this country; 31 have\nto the English people has been Brought to a con-\njoined the armed forces in England, and 11 are engaged in other\nallied war work in England or Ireland.\nIt has been our hope to hold a ceremony in honor of the members of\nthe Unit in Washington at this time but it has been necessary for\nus to relinquish this idea because of the extra demands which such\na ceremony would place upon transportation and hotel accommodations.\nAlthough our plans for a ceremony cannot be realized. it is fitting\nthat we should recall at this time that this was the first unit of\nRed Cross workers to brave the dangers of crossing the sea in that\nvery critical period before our country went to war.\nNot one American nurse lost her life by direct action of the enemy\nin the First World War, but in this conflict, six months before me\nourselves became involved, five of our group of Red Cross nurses\nwith their housemother did so sacrifice their lives. To see their\nnames written out gives me as an American nurse a great senge of\npride.\nMrs. Ruth Breckinridge, housemother, Winston-Salem, North\nCarolina\nPhyllis Lou Evans\nEverett, Massachusetts\nDorothes Louise Koehn\nOshkosh, Wisconsin\nMaxine c. Loomis\nPutney, Vermont\nDorothy C. Morse\nBoston, Massachusetts\nNancie M. Pett\nDetroit, Michigan\nTheir courage and resolution was as great, but no greater than that\nof all the other members of the Unit, but their sacrifice was greater,\nand the loneliness and sorrow that has come into the lives of each\nof their families cannot be forgotten by any of us."
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