1. Q: Clara, what events in your childhood may have sparked your interest for working with and helping with the war effort and wounded soldiers?
A: Well, my father was a captain in the war and he taught me a lot, a lot, a lot about geography and about the battlefields for the war. I learned so much everyday from him. That has helped me immensely with what I do today. I need to know about where I am and all about the battlefields I am working on, if I am. My mother also taught me how to sew and cook. I need to know that kind of stuff also for this type of work to take care of the soldiers that cannot take care of themselves. My older brother, David taught me all kinds of information on animals. He had so much patience with me when he taught me how to ride any kind of animal with four legs. He also taught me how to balance on them and how to take care of any kinds of animals. Overall of these things, there is one thing that really got me interested in helping people the way that I do. My older brother, David, fell off of our barn roof while he was trying to repair it when I was eleven years old. He wasn’t expected to live but I never gave up on David. I stayed by his side for three years and he eventually got better. I have loved caring for other people and animals ever since.
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amazing pictures and interview you are an interseting lady i worked as a nurse for the army. me being an actress and you being a nurse we do have similar jobs we both perform our duties for a specific audience. i see that you loved cats as well as i. i lived in paris which was alot different in the tim,e peiod that we loived in but life really wasnt affected considering that i really wasnt paid to much when i started out, how was your experience with economy changes?
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