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- Female narrator: "The U.S.S. Samaritan steamed to Iwo Jima
"to bring back casualties
"as I underwent my baptism of fire aboard her.
"I remember operating rooms,
"where one amputation of an arm or a leg was performed
"every 30 minutes for three days and three nights.
"I was a dedicated photographer,
"and there was in all the world at this moment only one story:
"men killing and dying.
"This is too important an experience
"to be reserved for people who happen to be young
"when their country is engaged in war.
"If it were widely enough undergone,
"it would make war correspondents
"obsolete and unemployed."
Margaret "Dickey" Chapelle, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1945.
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