Cold War
December, 1950
“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
Posted on November 17, 2009 at 23:56 by Chris Carter · Permalink
In: Military History · Tagged with: Korean War
In: Military History · Tagged with: Korean War
on June 25, 2010 at 16:08
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[...] and of itself, considering the tens of thousands of lives we lost in that war. Here’s a quote to remind you of how bad it was in Korea, courtesy of Blackfive: “The thing that bothered me worse than anything that winter was the cold. [...]
on June 25, 2010 at 16:09
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[...] and of itself, considering the tens of thousands of lives we lost in that war. Here’s a quote to remind you of how bad it was in Korea, courtesy of Blackfive: “The thing that bothered me worse than anything that winter was the cold. [...]
on June 25, 2010 at 19:05
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[...] and of itself, considering the tens of thousands of lives we lost in that war. Here’s a quote to remind you of how bad it was in Korea, courtesy of Blackfive: “The thing that bothered me worse than anything that winter was the cold. [...]
on June 26, 2010 at 02:29
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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.