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Trevor returned to America with me. We found a house in Simsbury, Connecticut, several miles from Hartford, and Trevor now goes to the public school in the village where I teach. He has adjusted very well to the American way of life and he has managed to forget much of the terrors which I was worried might scar him. Under Captain Tamoff's care the treatment went smoothly and quickly. It was admittedly touch-and-go during the initial diagnostic and early treatment days, and Trevor seemed to totter on the edge of another world at times. But—says Captain Tarnoff—his courage and determination alone pulled .him through. It seems strange to me how such a small boy could find so much strength and will to fight no matter how many times the doctors’ methods appeared to hinder rather than help. It was brought home to me and to others at Detrick that this was chemical warfare.
The young lad from England won many hearts and many friends while he waited out the four months in the Intensive Care Unit. When he left Detrick in January and came home to Simsbury, there had been a going-away party that will no doubt be long remembered for the tears and happiness and American presents showered upon him. Yet out of all the fancy gifts and beautiful cards he received that night, there was one simple message he still returns to read today. “We are all very glad to hear of your recovery and someday you will have to come and see us again. Keep well and remember us.” It was signed, Murray, Chadwell, Mr. and Mrs. Willets and Joan Saunders. It would warm them to know that he does remember them and often speaks of them. There is a hidden longing in him to return, and someday he will.
I have a surprise for Trevor which he does not yet know about. I have asked Lieutenant Saunders to come to America and stay with us for a few months. Not that it was entirely my idea—Sir Joseph engineered much of it. But I am looking forward to seeing her again, and I know that Trevor has a deep affection for her, and now that he is over the worst of his loss, he will look to her as he did to his own mother.
This, then, is what happened when something that couldn’t happen did, and even now no one knows exactly what caused the explosion at Dwarf Hill. Though much has been done to guard the public against a similar crisis, countries still explore the sinister realms of chemical and biological weapons. After what has happened to England, one would have thought that even the idea of experimenting with these weapons would be madness, but governments still intend to use chemicals and biologicals in a deliberate effort to destroy a enemy. Is any enemy, is any country and its people so great an adversary to merit total annihilation in so evil and cruel a way? Does not the picture of people writhing in death from gas poisoning, or ridden with anthrax or some other biological, mean anything to civilized governments?
Surely what has happened in England—what could happen anywhere at any time—is enough to destroy what in a few hours could destroy mankind.
Major Glen Thomas, U.S.A. (Ret.), O.B.E.
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