WEBVTT 00:00.840 --> 00:03.190 got over the career I was . Sergeant 00:03.190 --> 00:06.570 was I had a platoon with 38th Infantry 00:06.570 --> 00:10.410 Regiment , second Division . The first 00:10.410 --> 00:12.577 night I was there was 25 degrees below 00:12.577 --> 00:14.243 zero . This was in December . 00:16.340 --> 00:19.850 I fought with them for about 5.5 months . 00:20.620 --> 00:22.620 The Chinese were making their big , 00:22.620 --> 00:24.860 last big push to go back to Puss on . 00:25.340 --> 00:27.950 They hit us with everything they had 00:28.340 --> 00:31.640 and my battalion got over and and I had 00:31.640 --> 00:33.862 my opportunity up on the side of a hill 00:34.740 --> 00:37.880 myself . Two of my sergeants 00:39.240 --> 00:42.740 and four rock soldiers were 00:42.740 --> 00:45.360 captured and they took us and started 00:45.360 --> 00:47.490 down this mountain where we've been 00:47.490 --> 00:51.250 joined with 500 peel W's . We 00:51.250 --> 00:54.130 start our march to the Yellow River in 00:54.130 --> 00:57.870 North Korea with 500 miles 01:00.240 --> 01:03.950 one we get there , 01:04.270 --> 01:07.920 we will have still 2000 01:07.920 --> 01:11.770 left . Finally , after 01:11.770 --> 01:14.120 about 15 days , they gave us ground 01:14.120 --> 01:17.850 flour . Well , you eat 01:17.860 --> 01:20.027 flour . You know yourself . If you eat 01:20.027 --> 01:22.027 flour , you gotta have something to 01:22.027 --> 01:24.180 wash it down . You drink water . If 01:24.190 --> 01:27.350 anybody has been to career , 01:28.640 --> 01:30.870 they know you drink the water , you get 01:30.880 --> 01:34.820 dysentery . Was cause of people dying 01:34.820 --> 01:37.770 over there But march in the dysentery 01:38.540 --> 01:42.080 After about two weeks they put us into 01:42.080 --> 01:44.136 a cave in the side of the mountain . 01:45.040 --> 01:46.929 You couldn't even breathe and you 01:46.929 --> 01:48.707 couldn't even stand up . It was 01:48.707 --> 01:51.150 dripping wet . So my thought that that 01:51.160 --> 01:54.460 time Waas they're gonna 01:54.530 --> 01:57.210 close up the thing they'll never find 01:57.210 --> 02:00.850 us . And I said at that time , if I 02:00.850 --> 02:03.810 survive this aside , them not shooting 02:03.810 --> 02:06.690 us as fuel judges , I'm going to go 02:06.690 --> 02:10.190 home . I'm gonna be the the next day 02:10.190 --> 02:12.190 they did let us out and we started 02:12.190 --> 02:15.100 continued the march . We marched 02:15.110 --> 02:17.332 probably six weeks . Got a little place 02:17.332 --> 02:20.120 called mining camp . We called the desk 02:20.120 --> 02:22.490 Alp . That's where we buried a lot of 02:22.490 --> 02:25.280 our GIs that could not make the deal . 02:25.380 --> 02:27.436 That's where I buried this friend of 02:27.436 --> 02:30.610 mine called Pop . But then we started 02:30.610 --> 02:32.550 the march again and we marched . 02:33.040 --> 02:36.250 Another 200 miles 02:37.040 --> 02:39.930 came to our first camp count three . In 02:39.930 --> 02:43.090 North Korea . We lost a lot of men on 02:43.090 --> 02:45.220 that march . We lost half of them . I 02:45.220 --> 02:47.700 was the people w about 28 months . I 02:47.700 --> 02:50.950 think I waited all of probably £90 02:52.740 --> 02:55.960 the war ended , went home , 02:56.440 --> 03:00.150 have a 30 day leave and got discharged 03:01.630 --> 03:05.360 a za se I I'm one of the lucky ones . 03:06.240 --> 03:09.260 I was happy turn them back and say 03:09.840 --> 03:13.000 that I fought two wars to beat Hitler 03:13.000 --> 03:15.550 and upbeat China . And I'm here safe 03:15.550 --> 03:19.090 and I'm home . These ribbons and medals 03:19.090 --> 03:22.500 that I put on my jackets if that makes 03:22.500 --> 03:25.770 me and I and I earned them makes me a 03:25.770 --> 03:28.900 hero , so be it . But I 03:28.900 --> 03:32.800 survived and I survived because 03:32.800 --> 03:35.810 I felt I got too much at home . I got 03:35.810 --> 03:38.850 my family , I got my friends and I got 03:38.850 --> 03:42.270 my freedom . And the 03:42.670 --> 03:44.670 good old United States of America . 03:45.940 --> 03:46.270 Thank you .