05/15/2012 The crack of the bat and the roar of cannon will mingle on the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center’s (USAHEC) Army Heritage Trail on May 19th and 20th! |
05/09/2012 On May 4 and 5, 754 students from grades 6-12 came to the National History Day in Pennsylvania state contest at Cumberland Valley High School. |
| Elizabeth Lewis |
Elizabeth Lewis, originally from Portland Main, joined the Army Nurse Corps in the hope of adventure, experience, and a desire to serve her country in a time of war. In a time when there were fewer than 22,000 Army Nurses, only half of whom served overseas, Ms. Knight considered herself lucky to have been sent abroad. Her service began in May 1918 when she was sent to work in General Hospital #9 in Lakewood, New Jersey. Ms. Knight was attached to Base Hospital #15 for the duration of the war but frequently traveled with Mobile and Evacuation Hospitals. During her service, she wrote home to her family and friends and requested that they keep her letters so she could look back at them as a sort of a diary. Excerpts of these letters are presented here. The full collection is housed at the US Army Heritage and Education Center in Carlisle, PA, where they are available for public research. The following excerpts are from letters written by Elizabeth Lewis.
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