Nursing History

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In a Red Cross hospital in Vietnam, the young white nurse tends his wounds.

Drawn from the archives of the Red Cross in Geneva.

 

2018
Canada
4:00
Original language
English
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Color
Black and white
Sound
Stereo
Shooting format
16 mm
HD

Documentation

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Script:

intertitles

We were both 19

The promise of her hand

Steps from the new world

Even my wounds excited her

The camera made us possible

Look at this face
turning towards the camera
like John Wayne
after the killing is done

I hardly recognize them now

Keywords

War, archives, Vietnam, Red Cross

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