Episodes

A.F.F.W. Drivers. Chauffeurs of the American Fund for French Wounded. Image credit: Library of Congress http://media.blubrry.com/american_epistles/content.blubrry.com/american_epistles/Women_in_WWI_Part_3.mp3 [/audio] November 4, 1918 The chauffeurs have been most tremendously busy these last two weeks on account of moving. My life seems to hinge around choked carbureters, broken springs, long hours on the road, food snatched when you can get it, and sleep. Nothing else has mattered to me and ...

Salvation Army Worker Serving Donuts to the AEF; Image credit: Smithsonian Magazine “August 10, 1917 I get my appointment and go loco w joy. It seems to me my reason for existence is explained. All my training and experience seem to have fitted me for just this. Bradford Knapp talks and I get two ideas. Unless one gives all one is not giving enough, and if one can go one should. The other thing was that to our generation has come this great chance for sacrifice. There is a joy in my heart that...

Surgical Dressings Committee Volunteers in the Zander Ward of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital; Image Credit: Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library https://americanepistles.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/women-in-wwi-part-1.mp3 “Their house had been destroyed and they had lost all their farm possessions but one cow. They were living in one side of a dirt-floored barn that belonged to some friend, and someone else had given them a bed. But why this family was living at all, I do not ...