This young woman was killed moments before, doubtless by stray or inadvertant fire from advancing UN forces, as she struggled through soaking brush, desperately seeking safety for her small family.
Hair still neatly parted, she lies where she fell backwards into an irrigation ditch. Her arms, no longer
able to hold and protect, thrown wide in death. Her children, swaddled in their clean blankets, know something truly terrible has happened, but can't understand what.
The terrible suffering of civilians both North and South, and their even more terrible courage, remain among my most painful memories of the Korean War.
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