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PBS American Experience Documentary on The Battle of Chosin . https://youtu.be/erCtuu76P00 "...somebody started singing the Marine Corps hymn. I couldn't believe it, they're singing the Marine Corps hymn!  We're coming through the lines and somebody handed me a canteen cup full of hot coffee and a box of graham crackers and I just sat down the snow and had probably the best meal I ever had my life. At night I slept in my sleeping bag on the straw inside a tent that was like luxury.  After that Marines regiments had gotten back from west of the reservoir and consolidated, there was a lot of correspondents  there,  likeTime magazine and Life [saying that] it's not like Marines to retreat].  Gen. Smith bristled at the notion that this was a withdrawal or a retreat. There was no front;  there was no rear.  He was surrounded in all directions and therefore any movement in any direction is essentially an attack,  General Smith insisted his men were not retreating but attacking in another direction .... I cannot remember having a meal at Hagrid. We were pretty short of everything. The worst part was those rubber boots that came up about halfway to your knees. The bottom portion of them with rubber and as long as you were moving that they worked good and but climbing those hills your your socks would get wet from sweat and then that  you had no way to change the socks so if you laid in the snow all night long your feet would freeze. The rubber boots had a felt insole,  about a half inch thick, that was supposed to absorb perspiration. Instead the insole would freeze and it was like walking on ice.  They'd give me some hot coffee and morphine, but they they took my boots  off and I saw that my toes were black and I sort of lost it I wanted to cry again.  I didn't, but I wanted to cry. I said a  few curse words  ... somebody came over and says 'knock it off; Act like a Marine!  I shut up.  My boot was frozen so they could chop the boot off and part of my toes head came off inside the boot and when they took the boot off, all the toes are gone. They tapped my toe; big toe, and 2/3 of them was found inside of that that boot ... (transcript) Found this on You Tube.  There were (are)  precious few books, stories, documentaries, or even mentions of the Korean war. This is one of the best.