A Korean Christmas Carol..

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This poem was in the Korean War Newsletter

From: Don Masztak

I found this in a letter to 'Sgt. Grit' from an old
Korean War Vet....Sometimes we forget....

A KOREAN CHRISTMAS CAROL......................

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the tent
was the odor of fuel oil - the stovepipe was bent.

The shoepacks were hung by the oil stove with care
in hope they'd issue each man a new pair.

The weary GIs were sacked out in their beds,
and vision of sugar-babes danced through their heads.

When up on the ridge there arouse such a clatter,
A Chinese machine gun had started to chatter.

I rushed to my rifle and threw back the bolt,
The rest of my tent-mates awoke with a jolt.

Outside we could hear our platoon Sergeant Kelly,
A hard little man with a little pot belly -
"Come Yancey, Come Clancy, Come Gomer and Watson-
Up Miller, Up Shiller, Up Baker and Dodson".

We tumbled outside in a swirl of confusion,
so cold that each man could have used a transfusion.

"Get up on that hilltop and silence that Red.
And don't come back till you're sure that he's Dead".

Then, putting his thumb up in front of his nose,
Sergeant Kelly took leave of us shivering Joes.

But we all heard him say in a voice soft and light-
"Merry Christmas to all-- and may you live through the night."

Author Unknown....................USMC 50/54

Posted in memory of Corporal Melvin Morgan who died in a North Korean Prisoners of War Camp on 6 December 1950, and to all who served and died for this nation from Bunker Hill to Baghdad and all points in between!!!!

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Thought You Might Like To Re-Read This!!!

Mrs. H

[Robert Ryan]

Korea the forgotten war. Vietnam the forgotten Veteran.