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...move. I climbed a small ridge with them and watched what they were going into. Inchon blazed against the darkening sky, and the air over the city was choked with fumes and cinders. But in the far west the brightness of the setting sun painted one last patch of sky a peaceful, soothing yellow. A Marine chaplain standing on the ridge with me looked first at the sunlit sky in the west, then back at the smoke and fire around us. "Heaven on one side," he said slowly, "and hell on the other...
...hungry heart. Wrote Van Gogh in one of his last letters: "I have just painted that red and green vehicle in the courtyard of the inn ... a simple foreground of grey gravel, a background very very simple too, pink and yellow walls, with windows with green shutters and a patch of blue sky. The two carriages very brightly colored, green and red, the wheels -yellow, black, blue and orange...
...Last week correspondents got an official shoulder patch with the initials "U.N." and the words "war correspondent" in blue and silver, the U.N. colors...
...NAME RIDGE is a barren, useless place with a few scrub bushes and a patch of reddish soil in the center, the result of a landslide in some forgotten rainy season. To the right, a dark gully scars its side. It is called No Name Ridge for the quite straightforward reason that it has no name. But No Name Ridge will not be forgotten by the U.S. Marine Corps...
...last of the wounded were coming out of the valley as the new wave got ready to jump off for the ridge with no name. General Craig came down from the edge of the bean patch and watched the last litters. Finally he walked to a litter going by and touched a badly wounded boy on the shoulder...