Wartime was my world at the time this article was written. Although we were pacifists, we knew the war had to be won "or else," and everything was geared toward the war effort. The hospital at Beacon was profoundly affected The staff was swallowed up. Moreno's secretary, Joe, became a soldier. There was a shortage of nurses and aides, as they went off to the front or to work in factories. We did whatever we could to scrape by. I remember a young woman patient and I shoveling a path in the snow from the road to the house so that Sunday visitors could come up the hill.