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Show Korean Youth Writes Letter To GI Friend From Cedar Voices Sincere Sentiment (Editor's Note: The following I is a letter written by a young Korean boy to Sgt. Milt Jolley of Cedar City, who is with Headquarters Head-quarters Battery of the 213th Armored Field Artillery battalion battal-ion in Korea). Sept. 20, '51 Dear Sgt. Jolley How are you? You feel cold there much. Don't you? I'm in i the pink of health as ever. I'm very sorry that I had to part you. But what should I do otherwise? oth-erwise? I believe you are one of the kindest G.I.s I have ever met or seen. Anyhow, I hope you will come and see me when you come down here. I'll call you, if I got a business to go there, no doubt. Now I got a job as an interpreter inter-preter and working like a dispatcher dis-patcher in CA team located Chunchon City, hense the ancient library, where we have visited on the way to Kumwha by jeep, is near at hand. It is short that all the mater ials I receive, such as poor meals, blankets and scarce rations. But still I can enjoy myself with official of-ficial business what I do. Korea my country must be a poor and humble country admittedly. admit-tedly. And we ought to thank you U. N. Forces, fighting against enemy troops in Korea. Yet I don't have so humble pride that I obey any sort of works that is told to do, and that I dislike to be an interpreter in name only, even if I can speak English not too well. While, it is the most awful nuisance to be ignored one's pride, inasmuch as one's terminal intention of life is nothing else to perfect one's character, I claim. There is a Korean proverb pro-verb saying: "Even the earthworm earth-worm writhe themselves, if they are trampled down." However, I'm very sorry that I've parted you. I hope you'll let me hear from you. Yours truely, Sim J. Young. |