“We Cried Only When No One Could See Us”: The Nurse Who Held a Soldier’s Hand and Carried His Secret to the Grave
“We all cry in private. But not in front of the boys. Never in front of the boys.” Those words lived inside June Wandrey Mann long after the guns fell silent. The shock ward was never truly quiet. Even at night, it breathed—ragged, uneven, stitched together by groans, whispered prayers, and the metallic clatter of … Read more