During the fall in World War I, Frank and Anna worked in the same area as each other in the beautiful, wooded landscape in the German front. They were both in their early twenties, and Anna was a tall, beautiful woman, who worked as a nurse and Frank was a strong, handsome soldier. He was part of the gory front line, and was quite well off. Because of his intelligence, he was able to easily improve his rank to lieutenant. He was in charge of many soldiers. As his men became injured, he brought them to Anna at the infirmary. As his men regained their health, Anna called Frank back to pick them up. When they started this arrangement, neither of them knew each other. When Frank came by, he saw how Anna’s long, brown hair flowed back and forth in the wind like a flag. Anna saw how Frank’s super shiny shoes sparkled in the moonlight. This noticing of each other’s features is how they got to know each other. As the war raged on, and the two saw more and more of each other at the infirmary, Frank decided he wanted to get to know Anna more personally. One day, when the large infirmary was not very busy, Frank took Anna out on a short date to the tiny canteen. They gingerly ate their lunch of sausage and bread together, as they had not used their manners in a very long time. Later, when Frank was bringing one of his wounded men into the infirmary, Anna impulsively decided to kiss Frank. They both realized how they were in love, and wanted to spend the rest of their life together, so they decided right then to get married the following week. On the day of their joyous wedding, everyone that Anna and Frank knew from the front attended the brief Church ceremony. Shortly after they were married, healthy Frank started to notice that his foot was getting swollen. The next day, he felt some pain in his foot, and a few days later, his foot turned black and blue. He could not even fit his foot into his shiny boots; a warning sign of trench foot. Both Anna and Frank were getting very afraid: is the disease that Frank has on his foot trench foot? If so, how could Frank have gotten the terrible trench foot, if he had nice and new boots? In the following days, Frank and his wife would come to find that Frank does have trench foot, but no nurse, doctor, or surgeon could find out why. At this time, there was no cure for trench foot; they could only amputate the infected foot and put on a prosthetic foot. He would not be able to stay in the war and fight, so he was sent home to Central Germany. He longed for his wife to join him, but she never escaped the fighting of the war, as she got measles from one of the patients she was working with, and died doing one of the many things she loved: caring for people.
