Cold War
“The thing that bothered me worse than anything that winter was the cold. I’d always gone through life bitching about it being too hot or too cold; during the pullback from the Yalu, I decided I would never complain about the heat again if I could only just get warm. And the thing you had to realize, with life expectancy being what it was on the battlefield, was that chances were you weren’t going to live until spring anyway. You had to realize that you might never get warm again.”
– Col. Allan D. Bell, Jr. USA, Ret.
G/27th Artillery Forward Observer
Korea, 1950-51
Many of my uncles fought in Korea. I loved to go through pictures of them in the field, braving the cold knowing that they were plucked from a different culture and time. These men had such great strength of character that saw then thru the worst conditions.
Good post.
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