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You were born in 1923 to Texas farmers.
You lived through the Great Depression, and eventually managed to get yourself into WWII as a nurse with your mother when you were 17 years old.
However, as the war progressed, there...
I think cities have weakened us, our species. Mistakes have no consequences there. Step into the road without looking and the carriage merely stops or swerves. The only consequence, an angry driver.
But here, there can be no mistakes, because here doesn't care.
The river doesn't care if you can swim. The snake doesn't care how much you love your children, and the wolf has no interest in your dreams.
After Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan, the United States immediately declared war upon them, and in doing so, declared war on the Nazi's and Italy.
Mother and I joined the Red Cross to help injured soldiers.
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I was sent to the eastern front to help Soviet soldiers while mother was sent to London to help with injured people caught in the bombings.
It was bitterly cold all the time, but I still had a duty to fulfill in helping good people.
A part of me wanted to do more in the war, but being a girl in the 1940s, that wouldn't happen for another few years before the war ended.
I would constantly be treating bullet wounds and burn victims on the daily as Nazi soldiers warranted their dangerous Blitzkrieg onto the Union's front.
The only thing that saved us from the Nazis was how unprepared they were for the bitter cold.
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The infantry and militia that made up the group I was in consisted of old farmers and young men who were the last survivors of their units.
Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, told every able bodied persons to take anything they could to fight the war, because they were low on guns and ammunition.
