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Blinded Soldiers As Brieux Saw Them
These institutions are conducted in a spirit of cordial fraternity and mutual helpfulness which is as different from the ordinary conception of an “institution” as could well be imagined. The men are made to feel that they are in no sense objects of charity, but that the American supporters of the work and their French official co-operators are acquitting themselves affectionately of a debt of gratitude and of honor toward the men overtaken by disability in fighting for the common cause....