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    "ocrText": "C\n+\nL\n//\nJune 23,1943\na\n+\nMrs. Dorothy Conrad\nNursing Service\nNational Headquarters\nAmerican Red Cross\nMy deur Mrs. Conrad:\nAs the months go by and we know that we cannot predict any date when\nRed Cross nurses will be laying eside uniforms and going back to civilian\ndress, I find that there are some principals connected with the wearing\nof a uniform which I do not think you have thought about enough 30 that\nyou believe they are of real importance. To me they are very important,\nand that 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\nI have attended where Army, Navy, and Red Cross nurses were together, at\nthe lack of meticulous observation of Red Cross nurse uniform regulations\nin contrast to the Army and Navy.\nA nurse's uniform stands in the eyes of the public for certain qualities\nI\ninseparable from an ideal nurse. A Red Cross nurse's uniform stands for\nthese qualities and also for those inseparable from Wi.r nursing. Briefly,\nI\nthis--so great a desire to help the mounded fighting men that one is\nwilling to undergo great denger and hardship in order to do so. The\nAmerican Red Cross is as you know semi-government.l. The President of the\nUnited States is our Red Cross President and we cot under his orders.\n8\nOur Red Cross nurse's uniform, therefore, worn only in time of war, stands\nfor our government in is similar manner to that worn by Army und Navy nurses.\nN\nIt seans that those who wear it conform to a pattern of service set down\nby superior officers. Honor; integrity, obedience, unselfish devotion to\nJ\nduty, courage, that kind of patience which results in unrelenting persis-\nO\ntence in our efforts to relieve our patients, the bast possible use of\nour intelligence sometimes hard to exercise under the discipline inseparable\nfrom war; all these qualities are associated with the Red Cross nurse's\nuniform. It 1s a symbol of them. It is an identificution of us with the\ngreat aray of Red Cross nurses who went before us and who have left us to\nheritage too precious to be talked about very much."
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