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From the Ted Talk by Carolyn Jones: A tribute to nurses
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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Open Cloze
When I met Brian _________, he was raw. He had just come back from a __________ and he hadn't really settled back in to life in San Diego yet. He talked about his experience of being a nurse in Germany and taking care of the soldiers coming right off the battlefield. Very often, he would be the first person they would see when they opened their eyes in the hospital. And they would look at him as they were _____ there, missing limbs, and the first thing they would say is, "When can I go back? I left my brothers out there." And _____ would have to say, "You're not going anywhere. You've already given enough, brother." Brian is both a nurse and a soldier who's seen combat. So that puts him in a ______ position to be able to relate to and help heal the ________ in his care.
Solution
- unique
- brian
- lying
- deployment
- veterans
- mcmillion
Original Text
When I met Brian McMillion, he was raw. He had just come back from a deployment and he hadn't really settled back in to life in San Diego yet. He talked about his experience of being a nurse in Germany and taking care of the soldiers coming right off the battlefield. Very often, he would be the first person they would see when they opened their eyes in the hospital. And they would look at him as they were lying there, missing limbs, and the first thing they would say is, "When can I go back? I left my brothers out there." And Brian would have to say, "You're not going anywhere. You've already given enough, brother." Brian is both a nurse and a soldier who's seen combat. So that puts him in a unique position to be able to relate to and help heal the veterans in his care.
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