Dunkirk Dilemma
Who would have thought such a disaster could happen! And that I would be caught up in the midst of it? I was in Dover, working fast to patch up wounded soldiers coming off the boats from Dunkirk. Hundreds of thousands of troops surrounded and trapped on a beach in France, the Luftwaffe strafing them with bullets, and all we could do was get everyone who had a boat to go off and rescue them. Had we gone back to medieval times? My meager nurse’s training from the last war was not enough. Three young men dead on my hands already; one of them leaving me with a most nerve-racking final request....
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