- Title: THE WAY IT WAS
- Author: Marjorie Marks
- Publisher: Marjorie Marks
- Form: Paperback
- Illustrated: Numerous Photos
- Number of Pages: 120
- ISBN: 978-0-9795326-0-3
- Price: $14.00 + $3.00 (Shipping) = $17.00
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This is the author's vivid, often both humorous and shocking, account of serving as an Army nurse in the European theatre during World War II. It covers her typical civilian's adjustment to Army routine, and subsequent field hospital work, but its emphasis is on the horrific toll war had on her patients – young men whose lives and dreams were shattered by lost limbs, blindness, devastating brain damage and incredibly torched bodies ... if they were “lucky” enough to survive.
“I wrote this book to thank all of the boys for giving so much ... a lot of them with their lives. We cannot do enough to repay them for their lost years.
“We shed tears for them when we were alone, so we cannot ever forget them.”
- Marjorie Greiner Marks Captain, A.N.C.
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Excerpt
In September of 1944 we had a couple of boys that were on the seriously ill list. One especially was very ill. I did hope that he would make it. He was so darn sweet; just a young kid. He never complained about anything. He had to have his left leg amputated and was in such pain, had a high fever and that gray look about him. I had given him the maximum amount of morphine and just hoped that he would get some relief. He said, “Oh blue eyes, I feel so bad I don't think I'm going to get well.”
I looked at him and said, “Oh yes you are, you even look better than you did this morning.”
He looked at me and said, “Do you really think so?” His face lit up as he tried to smile a little.
I knew I was not telling him the truth, but I think God would have forgiven me if I could give that boy a little hope. I leaned down, took his hand and said, “Goodnight, I'll see you in the morning.”
I went off duty after fourteen hours, but I thought about that boy all night. I said a good night prayer to God to keep him safe throughout the night and to ease the pain. The next morning when I went back on duty they told me he had died peacefully during the night. So, at last he was at peace.
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