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Return of a Schocked Soldier in War Tale
In 1898 Martha Daiton aids a nameless dying woman aboard a train to Camdenville Indiana. The infant twins Margaret and Elizabeth grow as Rusty and Betty while Jim Elwell serves in France. Jim is thought dead but a nurse mails letters to Newark families, and a shell shocked John Powell in a Metz hospital is misidentified as Powell in New York. The scene pivots on a nurse’s truth and a mother’s heartbreak as John Powell is revealed to be alive only in memory and mind.
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Mollie Elwell
Camdenville
Ind
Martha Daiton
Martha
Elwell
Jim
Elwells
Margaret
Elizabeth
Rusty
Betty
America
Jim Elwell
France
John Powell
Powell
James Elwell
Ing
John W. Powell, Jr
Newark
N. J
Helen R. Craig
New York
John W. Powell
New Jersey
Destpair
Indiana
Metz
Brest
East River
Long Island
John
Cardy
Helen Craig