Amelia Josephine Burr (United States, 1878-1968, worked with Red Cross) Having graduated from Hunter College in New York, Burr traveled extensively across the globe. She wrote about Italy, Egypt, and India, among other places. She was a popular writer before the war started, publishing poetry in a variety of magazines. She served with the American Red Cross from 1917-1918. Her work is included in many anthologies of American war poems. She seems to have ceased publishing soon after her marriage in 1921 to Reverend Carl Hopkins Elmore, who served as a Presbyterian minister in Englewood, New Jersey. Red Cross Work (first published in The Red Cross Magazine, v 13, Jan 1918, 62; reprinted in Burr, The Silver Trumpet (NY: George H. Doran, 1918), 41) Interminable folds of gauze For those whom we shall never see . . . . Remember, when your fingers pause, That every drop of blood to stain This whiteness, falls FOR YOU AND ME, Part of the price that keeps us free To serve our own, that keeps us clean From shame that other women know . . . . O, saviours we have never seen, Forgive us that we are so slow! God - if that blood should cry in vain, And we have let our moment go! America to Europe (February, 1917) (Burr, The Silver Trumpet (NY: George H. Doran, 1918), 95) I gave a pittance of my gold To unimaginable need And was so proud of what I doled - It was my blindness, not my greed, For I have children who could see And to their vision have been true. Remember, when you think of me, My sons who gave themselves to you, Who succored faithfully and well The hungry and the fatherless, Who faced the battle's triple hell To aid the wounded man's distress, Who went with singing lips and heart To the red reaping of the guns. You judge me by my nobler part Who know the service of my sons. Sisters who find me dull to see And cold to feel and slow to do, Remember, in the days to be, My sons who gave themselves to you! Answer the chart: Country: Age in 1914: Year written: Gender: Front: Combatant or Non-Combatant?