| Table of Contents < - - - return Chapter 37 - Hospital Ship < - - - next Don Bennett's War Chapter 36 - Leaving Europe _______________________ One evening a French orchestra gave us a concert. Their violins looked old and their clothes shabby, but they played well and I enjoyed it. On another evening a group of French Protestants came out and we had a joint church service. We found some songs that we all knew and enjoyed very much singing them together. We learned that the Protestants were in a small minority around there and that they held most of their church services in houses. While at this hospital, I think the one thing I enjoyed the most was the food. When I left the front lines, I weighed about 165 and up until the time we arrived in Aix, the food was rationed out. But here we had plenty to eat and I made the most of it. I would be the last at the table many times. I enjoyed the pineapples the most and even the dried potatoes and eggs were good. On February 6th, I was told
to get all my belongings together and get checked out, for tomorrow
I was going to the dock in Marseille, getting on a boat, and heading
back to the U.S. I slept very little that night because of exhilaration
of going home, and I was up bright and early the next day so I wouldn't
miss my ride. We were taken by ambulance to the dock at Marseille and
went aboard the hospital ship Blanche F. Sigman (formerly the Stanford White) at the same pier from
which we were unloaded 4 ½ months previously, and the gangplanks
extended over the same sunken German hospital ship. We went below and
got assigned to our bunks, and when we came up on deck that afternoon,
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