The Red Cross : in peace and war . that Cuban wall and let us in ? Always present in our mindswere the food we carried, the willing hands that waited, and the per-ishing thousands that needed. We knew the great hospital ships werefitting for the care of the men of both army and navy. Surely theycould have no need of us, and the knowledge that our cargo was notadapted to army hospital use brought no regret to us. These days of quiet waiting were like the lull that precedes thestorm. The time seemed long regarded only from that standpoint, butwhen it is remembered that these few days were all th
The Red Cross : in peace and war . that Cuban wall and let us in ? Always present in our mindswere the food we carried, the willing hands that waited, and the per-ishing thousands that needed. We knew the great hospital ships werefitting for the care of the men of both army and navy. Surely theycould have no need of us, and the knowledge that our cargo was notadapted to army hospital use brought no regret to us. These days of quiet waiting were like the lull that precedes thestorm. The time seemed long regarded only from that standpoint, butwhen it is remembered that these few days were all that had beenallowed for a great nation with thirty years of peace to rouse up andplunge itself into a war, the time seems comparatively short. We hadtaken possession of our ship at Key West on the twenty-ninth of April;it was now the twentieth of June, and the great national records of twocountries at least will always give the history of those days. It is ourpart to keep as clearly, truthfully and kindly as possible the record of.
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