Episode 29 – World War I

The podcast to end all podcasts on the War to end all wars. Tune in to find out why both of these are a lie!

Complicating the Narrative
The Wilsonian Moment by Erez Manela
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-wilsonian-moment-9780195176155?cc=us&lang=en&

Document in Focus
Source: Lutiant van Wert, Native American female volunteer office worker, letter to a friend at an Indian school in Kansas, Washington, D.C., 1918.

Katherine and I just returned last Sunday evening from Camp Humphreys “Somewhere in Virginia” where we helped nurse soldiers sick with the Influenza. We were there at the camp for ten days among some of the very worst cases and yet we did not contract it. We had intended staying much longer than we did, but the work was entirely too hard for us. We worked from seven in the morning until seven at night with only a short time for luncheon and dinner. Our chief duties were to give medicines to the patients, take temperatures, fix ice packs, feed them at “eating time,” rub their back or chest with camphorated sweet oil, make egg-noggs, and a whole string of other things that I can’t begin to name. Male orderlies carried the dead soldiers out on stretchers at the rate of two every three hours.

Repeated calls come from the Red Cross to do volunteer work right here in D.C. I volunteered again, but as yet I have not been called and am waiting. They are certainly desperate for nurses—even me can volunteer as a nurse in a camp or in Washington.

All the schools, churches, theaters, dancing halls, etc. are closed here also. There is a bill today in the Senate authorizing all the wartime government workers to stay home for the duration of the epidemic. It has not passed the House of Representatives yet, but I can’t help but hope it does.

Recommendations
Hardcore History: Blueprint for Armageddon
They Shall Not Grow Old – movie trailer

Gassed by John Singer Sargent, 1919
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/23722

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