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THE YOUNG MARINE
The Young Marine
By Frank G. Gross I/ 3/ 7/USMC
The ballad below is in reference to the freezing bitter cold that the all troops suffered at the Chosin Reservoir
The road was long and freezing
in this cold and frosty scene
in the Korean War at the Reservoir
for this weary tried Marine
As his frozen feet would shuffle
and his purple toes were tapped
his naked face and burning skin
was wrinkled cracked and chapped
The stiffness of his moustache
his painful face would show
as the nasal drip had made a grip
from the chilling winds and snow
In the fear it could get colder
when the sun would chose to rest
he clinched his arms together
in the attempt to warm his chest
The stinging cold of numbness
as freezing sweat would rub
that changed to ice with in his boots
and on his hands beneath each glove<
A vapor cloud of warmness
from the puff of body breath
help to give resistance
of freezing half to death
The tremor of the snow and frost
a chilling winter scene
fell upon his cover
of his helmet brown and green
Conditions that turned to frost bite
a plague to soon unfold
as the blizzard snow and the enemy foe
had fortified their hold
A typhoon of freezing fury
with snow upon his back
as the lack of allowance
was throwing off balance
of aggression and blizzard attack
The infested Korean mountains
with a foe so sly and coy
in a mass atack their burpp guns crack
with the purpose to destroy
From the Oriental proverb
the Chinese troops all know
when the young Marine at the
Chosin Scene
spoke their words Gung Ho
For the term means work together
with siprit and with pride
as the army and ally nations
were fighting by his side
For this Marine Corps Band of Brothers
speak not of retreat
as they walk into the jaws of death
and carry out the teeth!