November 9, 2002
Photo:
First Aid to the Fallen
Irwin Hoffman #2
Oil on canvas, circa 1943
Gift of Abbott Laboratories
88-159-FX
Accompanying the first wave of troops to the beach, Navy hospital corpsmen in training at Camp Lejeune "inject" morphine and affix a tag to one of the "casualties" of the landing operations.
The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me....President Abraham Lincoln.
song playing....Endless Love