The snow fell heavily around me as I crawled between dead bodies, those killed and frozen to death. I’d been there for several months, fighting a ruthless enemy I’d never forget.
I was only nineteen, but remember it well. This damn sure wasn’t my older brother’s Marine Corps. His war was hot and tropical. Mine was a frozen hell.
I took a deep breath of cold mountain air, held it, and then exhaled. I aimed my M-1, squeezed the trigger. A young North Korean soldier in the distance collapsed into the red snow.
How could anyone have forgotten this war?
I was only nineteen, but remember it well. This damn sure wasn’t my older brother’s Marine Corps. His war was hot and tropical. Mine was a frozen hell.
I took a deep breath of cold mountain air, held it, and then exhaled. I aimed my M-1, squeezed the trigger. A young North Korean soldier in the distance collapsed into the red snow.
How could anyone have forgotten this war?
