文章大意:这是一篇说明文。文章主要说明了美国从越南撤军十年后,作家兼电影制作人基思·沃克遇到了一名曾在古池和岘港担任急诊室护士的女子,为《我心中的一片》这段令人心碎的历史播下了种子。她和其他25人回忆起她们在越南度过的时光,她们是1.5万名志愿或在军队担任护士的美国女性的一部分。
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A decade after America 1 (退出) from Vietnam, the seeds of the often heart-breaking history, A Piece of My Heart, were sown when writer and filmmaker Keith Walker met a woman who had been an emergency room nurse in Cu Chi and Da Nang. She and 25 others 2 (回想) the time they spent in Vietnam as part of the 15,000 American women who volunteered or served as nurses in the military. After working on too many mutilated (截肢的) young 3 (士兵), one nurse talked of wanting to ask her mother to “check around and see if she could find one whole eighteen-year-old”.
Many returned with post-traumatic stress disorder (创伤后精神紧张性障碍). They still felt 4 (惊恐) rising within them. “The one thing Vietnam did for me was that I felt like I could walk on water,” said a nurse.