The Forgotten Veterans of the COVID Teaching Trenches
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Vera Brittain’s excellent memoir Testament of Youth described her experiences as a nurse during the First World War. That conflict took her brother, fiance, and one of her best friends. After it was over, she went back to university to complete the studies she had forsaken to serve her country. Back at school, she found that the younger students who had not participated in the war as soldiers or nurses did not want to hear about it anymore. They were done with the war and found the older students who had been shaped by it to be bores and a reminder of a past they would rather forget. Brittain discussed how much this hurt, but acknowledged that she simply had to accept it and bury her feelings.
The Forgotten Veterans of the COVID Teaching Trenches
The Forgotten Veterans of the COVID Teaching…
The Forgotten Veterans of the COVID Teaching Trenches
Vera Brittain’s excellent memoir Testament of Youth described her experiences as a nurse during the First World War. That conflict took her brother, fiance, and one of her best friends. After it was over, she went back to university to complete the studies she had forsaken to serve her country. Back at school, she found that the younger students who had not participated in the war as soldiers or nurses did not want to hear about it anymore. They were done with the war and found the older students who had been shaped by it to be bores and a reminder of a past they would rather forget. Brittain discussed how much this hurt, but acknowledged that she simply had to accept it and bury her feelings.