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Clara Barton
Hello. My name is Clara Barton. Let me tell you about me. I was born on Christmas day in 1821, in Oxford, Massachusetts. When I was old enough, I went to school. I wasn’t making friends in school since I was shy, so my parents sent me to boarding school. I went on a hunger and sleep strike until I was taken out of school and I was homeschooled by them once again. When I was 11, my life changed. David, my brother, fell from a construction site and I nursed him back to health without playing. When I was in my late teens, I got a job as a teacher. I was shy on the 1st day because some of the kids were as tall as me. During that year, three boys were playing baseball and I joined them. I played better than them. I impressed them. Soon I went back to school and then I was both the teacher and principal at a school. Soon a male teacher replaced my principal job and was paid more than me. I quit my job. I found a new job as a clerk at the patent Office in Washington for the same salary as men. When some of the men from the Civil war battlefield came to Washington, Sally and I went to the station to meet the men. Some of them were the pupils I taught. I nursed the most wounded soldiers at Sally’s house. I gave them food bandages, and supplies from merchants.

I returned home during my father’s last illness. I went back to Washington the following summer.I was determined to get on the battlefield.I got the quartermasters pass along with 6 wagons with teamsters to carry my supplies trough the lines. When I got to the field hospital, I was working among the wounded soldiers for 2 days without sleep or food. I also did the best I could for the Confederate prisoners. After my first experience as a nurse on the battlefield, I kept going.

Soon I went on a vacation in Europe. When I heard about Geneva Convention, which assembled the International Red Cross, I offered my service to the organization I set up Aid Centers in war torn cites. The Influential leaders welcomed me. I was awarded the Iron Cross and I was determined to start an American Red Cross.

On May 12, 1881 the American Red Cross was organized. In the next 2 decades, the American Red Cross served at the Johnstown’s flood, the Sea Island and Galveston hurricane, and the outbreaks of typhoid in Butte, Pennsylvania, and yellow fever in Jacksonville, Florda. IN all of these crises, we provided supplies, nurses, and Aid Centers to help victims.  During my last years, I wrote a book called The Story of my Childhood. It was published in 1907.I died in Glen Echo from Pneumonia.

I’m mostly rembered for organizing the American Red Cross.

I hope you learned something from it.