European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 9 guerrillas magpies on flawless pole guard fresh i Graves p if 0 rain Faiu co Hall a a expecting male Detector  might be it for All t wounded Marine is loaded into Epter for evacuation to a rear Isy wounded troops Are brought to pm Las faster than by Martineit Iliou it t Forward across Mucky co Ibro a i s t Jimmy now on the staff of the new Vork served As the stars and stripes Cor respondent with the m army in its Advance Aero so France and permission from the new York copyright Feid York Post wit american forces in Korea will relate the reason for their presence on the slope and make it a glorious explanation comparable to great music Why is there no Flag about Only Bare Clay and a painted red pole with its lanyard Slack and accumulating dust does the request for a Flag Lay lost in the message Center flags Are not for combat but for parades and splendid occasions with the boots glistening and flags Are also for such quiet communities As these on the slope of the Hillside up from the sunken Road under the ridges above the is no distinction made for rank in this cemetery where 46 soldiers and an officer Are All Ere the same All Are a Are this is their slope to hold forever they cant Retreat and their attacks Are what Hills they have what Rivers they what roads they travelled Are to the North and in Many instances seized by the this is their own slope to hold and Only the elements Are their opponents but dust does not make the dead Soldier and what is rain on the they arc beyond immune from exempt from Safe from they have no fear of the atom bomb because simpler and older arms brought them tenants of the slope with the pole from which no Flag flew where White winged Black magpies All have the same allotted six and a half feet shovelled from the dry Earth by korean who among them died accidentally or sickened or was torn by fire is not indicated what made the quiet haul tenant of the first platoon die is not told on the wooden slave shoved Inlo the grass Tess the the the blood the religion Only the do tags identify the the serial the Type blood the Clivious there Aie no crosses Only the unpainted stick and the Dogleg glistening in the not even the dead Are fully equipped in this most ferocious of standing the sweat running off you wondered what it meant and if they understood Why they were there on this filthy what did dying mean to them i for the dead nor prepare reasons for their but Here Are the absolute authorities on intellectuals will not accept this but i will because these have suffered they know More than those who smugly said when we originally bombed Korea its about time we stopped was Lime and i agree with we Are right in this action and communists committed a criminal act when they invaded no petition nor slogan joiners but where Are they who shout the loudest in All causes very few Are found on slopes such As remember them when they demanded a second from the platforms with the spotlights on these Are not the committee the petition the slogan the Brave the fierce campaigners of the lecture such As these on the slope under the Lagess the Cross less will defeat communism or we will succumb to it was that Way with fascism and will be with nil the other evil forces which have attacked humanity since our civilisation on the slopes Lay those who Settle the statesmen unappreciated while they Nve honoured in death with formations which they detest As soldiers already politicians speak for them As though the dead Hud elected them to represent this what can anyone Tell them of communism who can explain the motives for this War who can talk for them us though they bore a private message from their Graves l a sports reporter cant Tell them Why not a sports reporter covering 1 cant them death was glorious or give reasons for their dying in their up the Road plodded in of led by an old Man Ina Horsehair hat a thin the rickety music of Korea posed of sounds of mice mid sad tittering came from Village across the there were Graves already empty and and others were staked Oft neatly by Cpl Kenneth of Clifton Toni crosses will the noncom anti so will the flags the army is never in a every one Waits in but no one will Wail longer than the dead on the slope where the magpies sat on the flawless photos critic fixed Des mo1nes Iowa commander of the veterans of foreign wars asserted that publication of grim pictures of the korean conflict it difficult Tor americans on the Home front their chins Worth head of vow specifically criticized publication of pictures showing burial services for can Vas shrouded bodies of group of american soldiers interred int a common grave at Kimchon Karus made his protest in a prepared the daily news dispatches have presented a horrible word picture of the ravages War has taken Emong our foot sore and poorly armed soldiers on the Karns said rest for the Wear with his helmeted head resting on the butt of his a 24th inf div i has solved the camouflage problem by sleeping a log on a artillerymen of the 35th inf div capture 40 winks under a tree during a Lull while their artillery pieces off and wait forbore fire l 1 while a us lady those South korean sol Diers a fetch up on sleep atop munitions cases behind inc tront Atter an Al night or rain is Iio Small to in Way the individual tries to find Comfort Cpl Bill fish angles an pulls his Raincoat Over photo via Acme