It was during the Great War that we first started mining moss. It was used for putting...
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Fraser Pettigrew: [voiceover] It was during the Great War that we first started mining moss. It was used for putting on soldiers' wounds, because it was ten times more absorbent than cotton wool. So when they were horribly wounded, it was *our* moss that soaked up their blood and guts and everything
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It was during the Great War that we first started mining moss
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It was used for putting on soldiers' wounds
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because it was ten times more absorbent than cotton wool
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So when they were horribly wounded
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it was our moss that soaked up their blood and guts and everything
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Movie Summary
Memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor husband, their ten year old son and his older sister. Through the household comes a n...
