Clara Barton

Here is Matthew's version of Clara Barton.

Remembered to This Day

By:Matthew

     Extremely intelligent, extraordinarily brave, and exceedingly committed, Clara Barton, the Angel of the Battlefield became a heroine to girls for generations. Born on Christmas in 1821 in Oxford, Massachusetts, she was the youngest of seven children. While growing up in a typical farm family, she gained practical knowledge from being homeschooled, and became a teacher at a unusually young age. During the Civil War she rescued and revived hundreds of soldiers. She rested in Switzerland. There she learned about Switzerland’s Red Cross, which ultimately became her life’s work. She founded and led the American Red Cross until 1904, when she retired at the age of 83. Clearly her contributions have enriched the lives of many.
     

     Clara Barton who was shy, meek, and little, would someday be a school teacher successful hero to many people. When she was eleven she lovingly nursed her brother David from an illness. During her childhood her faithful father told her all kinds of war stories which inspired her to someday save lives in battle. When she was young she had a pet turkey. Now that’s a true tomboy.  Studying in the barn was something Clara enjoyed, and she was able to do that because she was homeschooled and lived on a farm.  Surprisingly as a 15 year old, Clara Barton became a school teacher and was really patient, which led to her success.

     When Clara Barton was a young adult she started to help in the battlefield by finding the Civil War soldier’s lost baggage, which was the beginning to saving many lives. Lovingly she helped the wounded soldiers get better. She was a wonderful teacher. She was awesome with wounds.She cared for the soldiers. On the battlefields there were sadly a lot of dead soldiers, and she rushed out on the battlefield to find missing soldiers often. Clara Barton also recorded missing men.  Helping in the battlefield  was something Clara Barton did, and it helped save many lives.

     Later on in Clara Barton’s life, the German huge war broke out and that’s when she joined the Red Cross, which was a great group. Taking care of the sick and wounded was what the Red Cross did, and that fit Clara Barton and was something she awesome at and something that she enjoyed doing. She would always say ‘you will be all right’ to the wounded she was caring for. Amazingly, they also helped deal with famines, floods, and earthquakes ‘Oh My’. Red Cross helped care for prisoners.  Clara Barton became the Red Cross President during the war also. Whenever there were unidentified dead people the Red Cross carefully identified them and helped arrange a burial. Clara Barton helped with all that.  As you can see, there was a huge transformation in her: from meek and shy to a hero to many people.

     Surprisingly, even though Clara Barton was the littlest and the youngest of the family, she became a hero to many desperate soldiers in the Civil War and helped establish the Red Cross in America. She never ever thought of herself and she always thought of others in fact one little girl asked her mom once “Is that lady an angel?”. She truly was amazing! While some people just wasted their lives, Clara Barton didn’t and while doing that she also saved many other lives which is what made her surely significant and remembered to this day.