还原白求恩伟大而真实的一生 （1）

  在河北唐河裸泳的白求恩大夫


1。为什么中国人对白求恩那么崇敬 （by 一位嫁给老外的中国女性） 

“一位加拿大朋友告诉我，他准备去中国工作一年。他学了些中文，有一天跑到中餐馆去实地练习，被人家夸奖发音准确。女侍好奇地问他的职业，他说自己是医生，女侍立刻激动地叫起来：“白求恩!”

“这位朋友十分迷惑地问我：白求恩只在中国住了18个月，怎么他去世都60多年了，中国人还对他如此记忆犹新，崇敬无比？我向他解释：中国有几代人在小学时就要背老三篇，其中一篇就是《纪念白求恩》。连领袖都说他是“一个高尚的人，一个纯粹的人，一个有道德的人……” ，再说，我们中国人很念旧，你对我一日好，我对你以终身情；..... 何况他对中国‘解放事业’确实有贡献。
 
“可我的朋友说，白求恩虽然了不起，但并不纯粹。他好色酗酒，脾气古怪，在西班牙被开除了回加拿大没工作才到中国去的。他就一个加拿大普普通通的医生。

“我的朋友可能对。事实上，白求恩在加拿大不是名人，十有八九的加拿大人不知他是何许人也，即使知道他的人一半以上可能对他也不认同。我的丈夫便是其中的一个。于是连续几年，我和丈夫路过白求恩小镇时，他和我每每只对看一眼，没有人建议停一停。直到我的父母从中国来加，在两位老人的要求下，我们决定为他们开上这条以白求恩Norman Bethune命名的公路出口，去拜访这位在中国妇孺皆知的第一号加拿大名人。

“清晰显示的路标把我们带到一处平静的街区。我们看到一幢墙上画有白求恩头像的白色房子，非常普通，甚至说很不起眼。这就是他的出生地？疑问刚出口，一辆旅游巴士便停在了我们的车后，下来了满车的同胞。我和父母马上混入其中，只为能仔细聆听中国导游的中文讲解。

“丈夫听不懂汉语，便抱着小儿子东走西看。整个纪念馆里，只有他与另外一位工作人员是白人。翻开厚厚的留言簿，密密麻麻的全是中文。放映的录像是中文解说，发放的资料是中文印刷，小卖部的纪念品是中国制造……，我们得到的最重要的信息是——连这个纪念馆都是应中国人和政府的要求而创建的。


2， Dr. Norman Bethune (1890-1939)   “中国的一大英雄不再是中国人”，这是加拿大联邦政府官方网站介绍白求恩的第一句话 http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cool/002027-2102-e.html
 

One of China's great heroes isn't Chinese at all -- he's Canadian! Norman Bethune was born in Gravenhurst, Ontario in 1890, a long way from northwestern China where he died from blood poisoning in 1939. After working as a stretcher bearer in the First World War until he was wounded at Ypres, France, Norman continued his medical studies at the University of Toronto. He then re-enlisted as a surgeon in the British navy, spending the last six months of the war as a medical officer with Canadian airmen in France. This was just the beginning of a long list of contributions that Norman made to helping mankind. He set up a free medical clinic for the poor in Montréal. He invented and refined many surgical instruments, some of which are still in use today.

During the Spanish Civil War in 1936, Norman pioneered mobile blood transfusion services to bring donated blood to those wounded in battle. Bethune left for China in 1938, when he learned that there were not enough trained doctors to take care of the people wounded in the war with Japan. Dr. Bethune began to train individuals in first aid, sanitary practices and simple surgical procedures. He established teaching and nursing hospitals and developed mobile medical services and led mobile units through the mountains on horseback. In October 1939, while operating without surgical gloves on a wounded soldier, Dr. Bethune accidentally cut his hand. He developed an infection that, without the needed penicillin, developed into blood poisoning. He died on November 12, 1939.

Mao Zedong, leader of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1976, wrote a tribute to Norman Bethune, an essay that all Chinese schoolchildren were required to read. There is a statue, pavilion, museum, school and hospital dedicated to him in China.

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附录： 2009年10月15日，加拿大联邦政府宣布，为修缮安大略省Gravenhurst小镇的白求恩纪念馆拨款250万元。国家公园管理局说，诺尔曼．白求恩（Norman Bethune1890—1939) 是加中人民友谊的象征，每年有很多中国游客和华裔到白求恩纪念馆参观和缅怀这位伟人，拨款修缮这个纪念馆很有必要。 目前白求恩纪念馆由两幢房屋组成，一幢为白求恩出生在那里的二层楼房，边上另一幢是由二层楼房式住宅改建的陈列室和办公室。这次主要是解决放映厅问题，因为过去都是在院子里的帐篷中播放白求恩生平影片的。

[唵啊吽]

“可我的朋友说，白求恩虽然了不起，但并不纯粹。他好色酗酒，脾气古怪，在西班牙被开除了回加拿大没工作才到中国去的。他就一个加拿大普普通通的医生”。

这句话是真实的，他脱离了低级趣味的过程是在延安完成的。白求恩不但帮助了中国抗日，他自己也在这个过中超越了自我，实现了自我。他投身一场伟大的革命完善了人生，成为一个纯粹的人。

[Africangrey]

There is a statue of him in Montreal , in a park that's frequented by homeless. Of note, very few people heard of Claire Chenault陈纳德 in America , not even in his home state.

[bo'smam]

白求恩在加拿大或是别的什么国家或许是酗酒和脾气古怪的，可是他在中国就是一个对工作负责，对病人关心，挽救了上百士兵生命的天使！
在中国他从来就不是酒鬼，或许是有人居心想把他“变成”酒鬼和粗暴的人吧，因为他是一个外国共产党员。

[穿高跟鞋的猫]

I had lived in Toronto for over 12 years, but had not visited his house. However, I did find his graduation photo at Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronot.