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    "ocrText": "January 11, 1943\nmade\nMiss Laurine A. Smith\n1st General Medical Laboratories\nS.O.S.; A.P.O. 505\nNew York, New York\nMy dear Miss Smith:\nWith the transfer of the American Red Cross-Harvard Field Hospital for\nCommunicable Diseases to the United States Army, this service of Red Cross\nnurses to the English people has been brought to a conclusion. Twenty nurses\nhave returned to this country; 31 have joined the armed forces in England,\nand 11 are engaged in other allied war work in England or Ireland.\nIt has been our hope to hold a ceremony in honor of the members of the Unit\nin Washington at this time but it has been necessary for us to relinquish\nthis idea because of the extra demands which such a ceremony would lace\nupon transportation and hotel accommodations. Although our lans for a\nceremony cannot be realized, it is fitting that we should recall at this time\nthat this was the first unit of Red Cross workers to brave the dangers of\ncrossing the sea in that very critical period before our country went to war.\nNot one American nurse lost her life by direct action of the enemy in the\nFirst World War, but in this conflict, six months before we ourselves became\ninvolved, five of our group of Red Cross nurses with their housemother did so\nsacrifice their lives. To see their names written out gives me as an American\nnurse a great sense of pride.\nMrs. Ruth Breckinridgo, househother, Winston-Salem, North Carolina\nPhyllis Lou Evans\nEverett, Massachusetts\nDorothea 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 of all the\nother members of the Unit, but their sacrifice was greater, and the loneliness\nand sorrow that has come into*the lives of each of their families cannot be\nforgotten by any of us."
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