A Nursing Legend
Submitted by mbengals405 on April 29, 2008
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A Nursing Legend of the Great War
Edith Cavell was a pioneer of her time. She was a strong independent woman who dedicated her life to nursing and helping others. Edith could never have known that she would become a martyr and a nursing figure to be remembered a century after her death. As she awaited death she said,
"I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been kindly treated here. I expected my sentence and I believe it was just. Standing as I do in view of God and Eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough; I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. I am comfortable with death, I am not afraid.” (Eldon 1965)
Edith was born in 1865 in Norfolk, England. She trained as a nurse at the age of twenty after feeling compassion within herself as she nursed her father back to health when he...