Walter Cronkite - Symbol Of Caduceus

The symbol of Caduceus! This is United Press correspondent Walter Cronkite, reporting from somewhere on the Western Front on the symbol of Caduceus.

What is Caduceus? Well, let's put it like this. The ancient emblem of Caduceus has been the insignia of doctors for more than 2,000 years. It consists of a staff entwined by two serpents, signifying presumably the eternal struggle between life and death.

And its significance stands out more than ever today on the Western Front, were the gallant army nurses, the ladies of Caduceus, administered to the sick, the wounded, the dying. I was with him a few days before the fateful German offensive on the Belgian front.

You know, Larry, there's one thing about the in-station at a frontline hospital. Yeah, you don't have to worry about how to pass the time. Personally, I'd like to pass some time in Paris. Funny, isn't it, Jamison?

This time last year I was home in Mississippi. Going to dances, wearing pretty clothes, socks, pursing, listening to Preston. So you were dancing. So you joined the Army Nurse Corps. Now you're waiting in mud.

Why don't you stop talking about Mississippi? What's wrong with Mississippi? Look at it. Look at all of it. Get you willenshirts, dickies slack, di boos. So what? I suppose you think a new spring straw would look better up here than that steel helmet?

Oh, don't let a little thing like a spring hat where you're pressed in. Her dance is either, for that matter. The only music we're going to be hearing for a long time is those big guns up there.

Not exactly a swing version either. Well, I don't care what it is. I sure could stand a fellow in Paris. Ma'am, Ma'am. That reminds me of Colonel Promisess. Shh! Here he comes now, with over-conquite.