Group+1+Women

__Women during World War 1__ 

Scene: A women that was a nurse during the World War 1 who is telling her friend her experiences. 

​ Mary: Hey, Rose I haven’t talked to you in a long time.

Rose: I know I haven’t talked to you since the war.

Mary: Did you hear that Pearl got the French Croix de Guerre award?

Rose: No I didn’t wait isn’t that only given to 20 women?

Mary: Yes.

Rose: Are there any other awards that you could have received?  Mary: Well there’s the Distinguished Service Cross the nations' second highest military honor and three women received that. There was also the Distinguished Service Medal, our highest non combat award and only several received that. Then the last was the French Croix de Guerre award which 20 women were awarded with. 

Rose: Wow, what were some other jobs women had?  Mary: Well some of the jobs they did were army nurses, regular nurses. Physical and Occupational therapists most were called reconstruction aides and served in hospitals in the U.S & overseas. They worked in Belgium, Italy, and England for troop trains, and transport.  Rose: Several of the army nurses died on the long over seas trip home and were buried in military cemeteries far from home. Mary:Wow thats sad because their family probably wouldnt visit their grave if its so far away.  Rose: Yeah and some of the women who didn’t enlist in the war had to take over men jobs. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','serif'; font-size: 9.9pt; line-height: 115%; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin;">Mary: Yea, some worked in factories and some farmed. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> ​ <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Mary:We enlist in the war before we could even vote.

Rose: Now that your telling me so much about being a military nurse i think i will enlist.

Mary: Yea i personaly think it is better. I would like to serve for our country and be proud of it!

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 36px;">__<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Bibliography: __ Wilson, Barbara A. Captain, “WWI” __Thirty Thousand Women Were There.__ 1990-2004. <[]>