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The morning on which I was taken before the military medical commission I was in high spirits. It was a late December day, but my heart was aglow as I was led into the large room in which about two hundred other patients were waiting for the examination which would decide whether they were to be sent home or were considered fit to be returned to the front.
The chairman of the commission was a General. As my turn came and he reached the name of Maria Bochkareva he thought it a mistake and corrected it to Marin Bochkarev. By that name I was called out of the crowd.