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    "ocrText": "C 0 P Y\n4 Rue de Chevreuse,\nParis, France.\nJune 1, 1920.\nMy dear Miss Noyes:\nAs the American Red Cross representative to\nSavenay on Memorial Day, I again had the privilege of visiting\nand placing floral pieces on the grave of Miss Delano. The\nflowers generously offered by the American Red Cross and Red Cross\nnurses in Paris, covered the grave to overflowing.\nThe simplicity and genuineness of the towns-\npeople in their special services for our dead, arranged by the\nMayor, was most impressive and long to be remembered.\nAfter services in the Town Hall, the long\nprocession of men, women, and children in white carrying large\nbaskets of flowers, marched through the streets of the quaint little\nvillage to the cemetery, where the children placed a spray of\nwild flowers on each grave.\nDuring the short address made by the Mayor, a\nlittle child with bowed head s tood at each small white causs, after\nwhich the procession slowly wound its way through the beautiful\nlittle cemetery out into the peaceful village.\nIt was indeed gratifying to know that during\nthis long lapse of time, the village women and childred are period-\nically placing flowers on the graves of the Red Cross Nurses whose\nmemory they seem to cherish.\nA little school teacher who had come in contact\nwith many of our Red Cross workers, approachang us in the cemetery\nexalaimed \"I knew someone from the Red Cross would be here.' We\nwere taken by this little woman to her home where hot chocolate\nand hot buttered toast was prepared for us before our departure\nfor Paris.\nSincerely yours,\n(SGD) MARY H. BETHEL\nActing Chief Nurse,\nA.R.C. Commission to Europe."
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