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Yumei watched in shock as soldiers charged ___1___ one
another across
a narrow strip of land. Smoke hung ___2___ the
battlefield. The teacher's ___3___ came quietly over the intercom in
her observation
unit.
"In the First World War, many ___4___ were lost due to
the way the battle
was ___5___. A deadly dance was performed daily
___6___ men
from both sides. They would ___7___ turns to charge
towards the enemy
trenches, across terrain covered ___8___ mines, and
crawl under barbed
wires. ___9___ who survived would then face heavy enemy
artillery.
___10___ such circumstances, it was not
___11___ that such
charges were called 'suicide missions'.
Yumei winced as rusty bayonets were ___12___ to impale
men who would
then be ___13___ to die painfully from the loss of
blood, gangrene or shock.
She knew that the medical facilities ___14___ primitive.
The surgeons did
not ___15___ about the need to disinfect the surgical
room, nor the need
to ___16___ the wound as clean as possible. Most of the
young men
___17___ of wounds that could easily have been healed
___18___ just
a few more decades.
Yumei reached over and turned ___19___ the observation
unit. Now she
understood ___20___ her country censored war. |
