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SURVIVED P. O. W(1996/11)
by Yeungkwan Kim
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Now, 10 is still alive.
Me, captain Kim, and a GI Choi.
In 1954 winter, the korean war has already been over, but of 10, we 3
are still alive in north korean prison.
7 soldiers were dead here, the GI Kang and Park and Lee........
Can we return home south korea?
No, can we survive?
Mice is watching the can of rice again. one, two, three, no, I can not
calculate them all.
Everything is frozen inside like outside. Though there is no one rice in
the can, because we licked up the one rice all, it is the same that there
is no food.
If the rice is given less, we should catch those mice, and eat them.
Captain kim and GI Choi look like skulls. I can not see my face, but I
finger it just like skull.
There is no sunshine in No.12 prison.
The wet and rotten smell crawls in this prison and come into our
lungs.
On the prison roof, The cold north wind sounds wing, wing, wing....
3 years ago, in 1951 spring, Our military company was redrawing
because the china fires came near to us.
In 00 region, Northwest of Kyeungkido, Our company was in almost
dead condition. Only 30 were left alive. The wounded without one leg,
The GI face in pieces... the soldier who could fight was only some, me,
captain kim, Choi,....
We were afraid of the china military fire very much. To die and to be
p.o.w. Which of all, It was frightening us.
Our backward was dropped by enemy too. We had no food, no bullet,
no water, no medicine. Our life was belonged to each and captain Kim.
In the snowwing coldness of March. hands and legs were already
frost-bitten, because we did not change our socks during past 10 days.
Ther is no redwawing way, captain Kim thought so.
Can we survive tonight?
Ans so tomorrow?
Ther was no molphin for the wounded without no leg, no hand.
Give up?
Give up or redraw?
The enemy is licking up us.
The terror!
The soldiers were terron-ridden in coldness and hunger.
It dawns.
We could not even fire up through the night at all.
Just a glass of water.
Captain Kim thought, 'Today we will redwaw, or be captured by enemy.'
At last night, we moved just smome kilomiters. And we left out one
dead soldier without sound in the black forest.
The next will be GI Kang with one leg, bleeding now. He already lost
his consciousness.
Day dawned.
At the moment, when we thougt that it was not good to climb down
the mountain, the enemy fired at us.
they were waiting us and hunting us.
There was no way to escape. We were just pushing our heads into the
ground, just hearing the crying out sounds of our company.
Yield point.
captain Kim stood up, pitching the gun.
Me, Choi, and other GIs stood up too.
Fire and blood smelt. Kang, with no consciousness, was bleeding, from
his chest. The others were all dead.
The enemy was coming near us in the fire gas below the gray March
sky.
We 10 yielded ourselves as prisoners at alst...
North Korea No. 12 prison...
The wounded our Gis were left in the field, like bleeing dying dogs.
Terror and torture.
Escape...
I was thinking the escape at that time. It was the same, to die here
and to escape, so dead.
We 10 were beraing the coldness, hunger, torture during past 3 years
,so, we left 3 only.
some died because of hunger, some died, with sickness, torture,
escape.
And I heard that the korean war ended...
"There are over 3000 p.o.w, left."
we heard it from a north korean GI. We felt that we left, and forgotten
from south korea. Over 3000 GIs were, being forgotten......
Escape!
That was the only hope of us.
We did not know where we were in north Korea, but heard that we
were moved another p.o.w prison. So, We felt all that we should escape
here.
But GI Choi was very bad condition. He was spewing the bleed. But He
wanted to meet his father and mother and to escape with us, being alive.
So captain Kim and me promised, not left him alone.
I t was not difficult to dig out the ground of the No.12 prison. But It
was the problem to go out the outside of this prison because there were
too many North Korean GIs, armed.
But Choi who had gone to this prison medical place knew the escape
way a little. At night of cold winter wind, at last we dug out all, and
hide the ground with our bodies. The escaping point was the time that
the North Korean GIs changed their mission to guard. There was a North
Korean guarder, doing masturbation to bear the coldness. Tonight we
prayed for him to do it , at that time we would escape. Our arms were
just a piece of glass and nails.
We would succed in escaping if we could go out that wire
entanglements.
Captain Kim, at first, crawled under the wire entanglements. It takes 3
minutes for the next sentry to come here again.
He rounded his clothes and pushed the etanglement slow.
He was very slow, and fast, so felt to me.
Can he succeed? I could not close my eyes, just
watching was what I could do, and should do, because I
was so afraid of the dark, the enemy, and the silence...
But captain kim did good, and he was sliding out of that
entanglements. The next was me...
I was afraid, very much. But there was no way, except running... To be
died was....., I started to crawl under the wire entanglements.---
I heard the sound of the enemy's foot step.I tried tried to escape
from the wire, but My body was not moving fastly....
At last, Choi could not escape from the enemy, north Koreans. Captain Kim
and Me run, run, run, and walked as fast as we could, moving to South Korea....
Kim and I are not the men, but we are the ainmals who are going to be captured
by enemy. Why do we have to fight each other like this..?
I do not know why. I was just a GI of South Korea, with no power.
We walked and walked, eating nothings....
There was the 38 line with the wire entanglements in front of us..
That was the line between South Korean and north Korea...
If we could go over it, we could reach at the South Korea, home!!
---to be continued---
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