"An eighteen year old boy is carried into the shock ward, and he looks up at me trustingly asking, "How am I doing, nurse?"

 "An eighteen year old boy is carried into the shock ward, and he looks up at me trustingly asking, "How am I doing, nurse?"

I just kiss his forehead and say, "You are doing just fine soldier."

He smiles sweetly and says, "I was just checking,"

Then he dies.

We all cry in private.  But not in front of the boys. Never in front of the boys."

June Wandrey

June Wandrey Mann (1920–2005) was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps from Wautoma, Wisconsin. 

She was the author of Bedpan Commando, an account of her military service in Africa, Sicily, Italy, France and Germany from 1942 to 1946, during which she was awarded eight battle stars.