War Diaries (September 5) (nonfiction)
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War Diary quotations for September 5
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Helen Dore Boylston: September 5, 1918
The Hindenburg Line has broken!!
Camp is wild with excitement. Perhaps this is the beginning of the end. And if it is — what then? I had forgotten that there might be an end; that someday I might be back in America.
We got our first stretcher convoy in months yesterday. Since then they have been coming in steadily. The boys are so worn out! This morning I arrived at one youngster’s bedside just in time to prevent a lively attack of hysteria. They come out to France younger and younger. This lad wasn’t a day over seventeen.
No air-raids since the push started.
- Diary of Helen Dore Boylston - Boylston served in France with the first Harvard Unit, a U.S. medical team that treated more casualties than any other group of American doctors and nurses during the conflict. In 1927, she published Sister: The War Diary of a Nurse, an account of her experiences in the field.
