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    "ocrText": "15337\nJuly 25, 1918.\nMiss Ethel Trainor,\n705 Dallas Street,\nSelm, Ala.\nMy dear Miss Trainor:\nYour correspondence is on file in this office concerning your ser-\nvi ca for various forms of Red Cross and military Units. Unfortunately\nyou are not available for the Rod Cross Unit, although we should have\nbeen very gled indeed to have utilized you,owing to the fact that you\nhave a brother in the service. The Surgeon Gener al would have been\nvery glad to utilize your services and you would have been in line for\nforeign service had you been willing to accept cantonment service. I\nwish that you would reconsider your decision and accept this service,\nfor it seams to me that it is only through such an avenue that you will\neventually get over seas duty. By accepting duty in the military hos-\npitals in this country and performing that duty to the very best of your\nability with the trus aptitude of a nurse and soldier you can depon-\nstrate to the War Department that you are truly in earnest and willing\nto obey orders. I feel sure that if this were the case, after a reason-\nable length of time you would probably be in line for an over seas ap-\npointment.\nI am sure that you understand that the general plan is to assign all\nnurses coming through the Red Cross to the Army to the cantonment hos-\npitals and when nurses are needed. abroad later they are withdrawn, pref--\nGrence being given, unques 1 onably, to those who have been longest in\nthe service and who meet the professional and physical qualifications.\nIn view of this general policy you can quite see that any attitude against\nthe service on your part brings you into disgover with that department\nand we are quite helpless to utilize your services as long as the brother\nruling holds good.\nBelieve me as,\nVery truly yours,\nDirector, Bureau of Field Nursing Service.\nCN/A"
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