The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-04
Observations
Wounded Soldiers
Subjected TO
Public Show

WASHINGTON Gosh, Nom
look at the flies on his leg. How dc
they expect the sore TO get well?
1T seems to me as II he'd be bet
ter off In a hospital. All OF them
would be better off in a hospital,
said Nom. Come on. Lily, it makes
Inc kinda sick to look at our boys
being made a show OF. | don't care
what for" Nom and Lily pushed a
slow path through the crowd gath
cred around the live specimen sec
ton OF the Medical tent at the Back
the Attack War Bond show.
About a hundred people still
clustered outside the ropes which
separated the wounded men 49,
loaned by the Walter Reed Hos
pital and their nurses and doctors
from the mob. A sick man. who
was having a bloody leg wound
dressed for the horror and enter
tainment OF the crowd, was lying
face downward on a hospital cot.
He buried his head in the pillow.
He was nameless TO the curious.
But he was man who had been
asked 10 give his life for his coun-
try.
Inc large slsn aooIe on the SUI
OF the tent announced uese hcii
Were Wounded in the Present
War" II the sign had read, Come
This Way for the Bearded Lady"
Fat Girl Weigs $50 Pounds" or
smallest l"o-heaueu pap! III
Captivity you Would nave KNOW
S0u were IN circus sioeshoN' lou
felt as II you were III circus SUI
snow mere. u was snow mat saiu
IN "relcheu cl'cC.' Noi'e anu
inc mahsleu III oou! anu sp''l''
step up thls way idules anu gu
tlemeh, ana see Fedl u'oou anu 'ea'
agony on hV.hs housls'
UnaouDIeuIy 'he reason io' VI ing
ing the WOUNDED men rom w d''ei
heed 10 lhe BACK tne At'd0h snoN
was Wen lhtentioneu. us pu' pos
was 70 snow the line t'ea'ii'eh' 'ne
WOUNDED men are RECEIVING anu 10
make the puoHC ieei tne ieaIi'y "a
war anu puy more war pouus'
however, "eiI,ihlehtioiieu 'ie pul-
pose, the result was ues au'he. ~
the men whose Nouhus were oeihs
exploited ana degrading 10 tne
crowd thal stateu anu "ouuereu
ana sometimes snlNereu.
one OF the cholce human eAnio-
IT'S during me afternoon | was m
the hospltal tent was soiuier Win
one souhd leg Inc other les Was
dressed WINE inc puoilc looheu Oh.
Inc stump OF tne leg was spiasheu
Win ugly oiood Nessels' W me
nurse treated the stump tne victim
lay win MS arms niuins MS lace'
Al a nearby taole iour OF i've
con'aIescents sat learning occups-
tlonai tnersp!' oucn therdpy Is
Work win the hahus' supposed 10
TAKE the mlnd OH misery present
anu remembered ana recover use
OF muscles. FROM oehlha tne ropes
a shiil vi "ouhueu men III Ieu iiali'
Dsi nospitdl suite was oeIne escoI =
ca ava! rom the tent nese men
ndu ser Neu 'nelT turn at the shoN "
one man nsd a strange loon a1out
.he idce' flasIIc SUI sely nau u1nV
its oest ior the pooI lei.U ,, ~, a..
iedtuie s' no"e'eI, were sun a.,
tie out .! iIne. ne e.oNI ''aie Gu
open iiiou'neu ae ne paSS
10 you me peins HeIe
young sirI asheu one hoopiel on
Woouen reg ne answer came III d
ueao voice We Deen through 50
nluch uon care what nappens I"
me noN.
lnese men are Ptouu 10 oo
Nounueu seiu an dl'ehuIns uUo
IOr' ne hiHlseil ndu s9unu oouy
my unDelleNIns Iooh ne ca
plsiheo' hey come mere as Noluu'
teers' Iney re siau 10 set away
from tne hospllaI lot chanse.
olon argue. couioh l. nor dld
nave tine. Inc croNd was moving
up last oehlhd me. IN my own
nina sald' Perhaps these ca
volunteer but they are not normal
heatny men Tney should be pro
tected from such volunteering. An