The Heroic Effort
The numbers are staggering! Over the course of 51 months, almost 55,000 volunteers from nearly 125 communities served 6,000,000 service men and women. Day in, day out, from early in the morning until the last train would leave at night, between 2,000 and 5,000 soldiers and sailors would be fed nearly 200 loaves of bread, 100 pounds of meat, 50 pounds of coffee, two gross of rolls, and over 100 quarts of milk.More than 300 organizations made sandwiches, boiled eggs, fried chickens, and baked cakes, pies, and cookies. Tens of thousands of magazines eased the boredom. War wounded were provided with razors, canes, tooth brushes, and care baskets to make their return home a welcome one.
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