Work Of The Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association

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Excerpt from Work of the Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association: During the War With Spain, 1898 In time of war there is always a need of some voluntary organization of citizens to assist the government. However carefully planned the military provisions may be for the care of the sick and wounded, a severe battle or an epidemic of disease makes such extraordinary demands that the government cannot meet them. This has been demonstrated in every modern war. Then, when the soldier is discharged from the service for disability, a patriotic people will not permit him to be treated as an incompetent or pauper. To prevent this, assistance other than that which the usual charitable associations can furnish is essential. In Massachusetts there is never a lack of patriotic spirit among her men and women when the government is assailed and the lives and rights of its citizens are at hazard. All that is necessary is to centralize and direct this willing force. After the plans are matured and the lines of relief work defined, there has never been any difficulty in this State in securing for the government able and generous assistance. But unless some wise and general plan is conceived at the beginning there is a great waste of energy and means and a liability that more harm than good may be done. No voluntary work of citizens can be of much service without the hearty co-operation of the regularly constituted military authorities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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