Emily McIllwain

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The young nurse saw other staff drawing sheets over the patients. She was frightened. She was only twenty-two years old and three months out of nursing school, and she had never seen a patient die. The previous evening she had broken down in fear for her own life. Now the doctor asked her to help carry the dead patients and line them up inside the chapel. The young nurse began assisting.
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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