Have little nursing care to ease their pain—
Or die perhaps—the answer’s in your hands.
Life means so much to them! Can you explain
To any youth who fought, suffered, and bled,
Why you did not serve, too, beside his bed?
—Ruth Arundel Piercy, r.n.
From The American Journal of Nursing,
Vol. 44. No. 2. Feb. 1944, p. 97.
By permission of The American Journal
of Nursing.