Thanks (2nd story)

Some years after World War-I the Prince of Wales visited a hospital for hopelessly wounded veterans. Besides each broken body he stopped and chatted. While he was being led to the doorway, the prince asked,"I understand you have thirty-six patients here, but I've seen only twenty-nine."

The nurse gave the excuse that the rest were too horribly wounded for him to see. "Is it for my sake or their's you are not taking me there?" asked the prince. "For yours, Sir," the nurse said. "Then I insist you show me in." Here too, the prince stopped by each one and thanked him for his sacrifice.

Once more he turned to the guide and asked, "Where is the seventh?" The nurse objected, "Please do not ask to see him, Sir. It can do no good." But the visitor persisted. Then he saw a human body-blind, twisted, frighteningly disfigured!

The prince turned white, his lips were drawn and tears trickled down his cheeks. He bent and kissed the cheeks of the broken hero.

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