Tuesday, October 13, 2009

A short letter by Selma Chadwick

I immediately skipped over this folder, I will be honest with you there. But upon further examination of it, I realized that there was more than meets the eye.

In Selma Chadwick's folder, there were three sole pieces of paper in it: a letter to Freddie. Though the letter is very short, it allows for lots of interpretation as follows:

1. Many times correspondence between soldiers in Spain and their families was elongated and the letters were thus not timely.
2. People felt bad about abandoning their home and their family and friends, but often felt it was necessary to do so.
3. Many military nurses were always overwhelmed with the amount of patients that they had to take care of.
4. The people who volunteered certainly did not live in the lap of luxury.
5. People try their hardest to forget the tragedies of war and somehow take glory in the things around them.

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