Landing in Korea
Heroes Remember
Landing in Korea
Shortly before we, the truck stopped
to let us off, we could see dead
Americans all over the place.
Not a dead Chinaman anywhere.
The Americans were all in just their
underwear and their boots.
Well, we found out what happened.
We felt better about it then because
it makes you kind of sick when you
first see that and you're
going into the situation yourself.
But there had been seventy Americans
up between the lines in no man's land,
and they were staying in overnight.
And instead of digging in on a hill and
everybody awake, they went into a village,
all climbed into their sleeping bags
except the two roving guards.
The Chinese were watching that from
a distance all the time.
And the guards heard the Chinese coming,
so they all took off and didn't warn anybody.
The Chinese set up a machine gun at
each end of the village and
they went through with bayonets.
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