Experience seeing another country

Heroes Remember

Experience seeing another country

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I mean it was a, a great experience as far as seeing another culture and all of that. But it was a, it was hard because of the hard work we had, we did, you know. But it was rewarding because you know, you helped these people and, and they were all so grateful, you know they were. They just, you know, really appreciated us because they knew that we worked hard and that we were trying to help them. But it was, you know, we'd have to sometimes put some of these burn patients in a tub to try to soak off these dirty burn dressings that were you know put on at the front and it was.. they were in such pain you know we had to give them stuff for their pain and so we could get these dressings off and put new ones on. But it was hard for these young people.

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Ms. Stirling talks about the reward of helping out the soldiers especially ones with burns.

Jan Stirling

Jan Sterling was born in England, in June of 1927. She moved to Canada where she grew up in New Brunswick living between Saint John and Fredericton. She graduated from Saint John General Hospital in 1949 where she joined the army medial corp in 1949 to help out in the Korean War. She tells us what it was like to be a nursing sister in the hospital in Korea during the war.

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