The Name That Outweighed the Arsenal

In 1944, a young French nurse named Geneviève de Galard walked into a field hospital in Indochina carrying nothing but a medical bag and a quiet, unshakable conviction that every wounded soldier deserved dignity. The garrison was surrounded. Officers with maps and artillery debated strategy. Soldiers counted their dwindling ammunition. Geneviève never counted bullets. She simply moved from cot to cot, calling each man by name, cleaning wounds with steady hands while mortar shells shook the walls.…