My father, a physician, led an Army field hospital, which was evacuating wounded from the battle in Liége a few miles from the rapidly changing front. It was set up in a high school and was well marked with a Red Cross. On Christmas Day when the gym was full of wounded waiting for transport he step away to shave at his quarters a few blo…
My father, a physician, led an Army field hospital, which was evacuating wounded from the battle in Liége a few miles from the rapidly changing front. It was set up in a high school and was well marked with a Red Cross. On Christmas Day when the gym was full of wounded waiting for transport he step away to shave at his quarters a few blocks away and it was shelled by German artillery. A direct hit on the gym killed all the wounded and most of the doctors and nurses and corpsmen. His medical unit was too shattered to rebuild and he spent the rest of the war attached to other units.
Thank you Heather for anchoring today’s letter in that moment of courage and sacrifice in our nation’s defense of democracy. We will need to rediscover every bit of that courage to fight this home grown threat to democracy.
I am so glad my father did not live to see this moment of infamy. It would break his heart as it does mine.
My father, a physician, led an Army field hospital, which was evacuating wounded from the battle in Liége a few miles from the rapidly changing front. It was set up in a high school and was well marked with a Red Cross. On Christmas Day when the gym was full of wounded waiting for transport he step away to shave at his quarters a few blocks away and it was shelled by German artillery. A direct hit on the gym killed all the wounded and most of the doctors and nurses and corpsmen. His medical unit was too shattered to rebuild and he spent the rest of the war attached to other units.
Thank you Heather for anchoring today’s letter in that moment of courage and sacrifice in our nation’s defense of democracy. We will need to rediscover every bit of that courage to fight this home grown threat to democracy.
I am so glad my father did not live to see this moment of infamy. It would break his heart as it does mine.