MEN AT WAR: Hedge Goes Home

Perhaps more clearly than other U.S. officers on the scene, Naval Lieut. Horace G. Underwood knew what he was fighting for in Korea. He put it no more and no less eloquently than many others. "I just feel," he said, "that the things I believe in can't go on under a Communist regime." More tangibly, however, than those of the others, the things in which "Hedge" Underwood believed were symbolized for him right there on the battlefield. Two miles west of Seoul's center stands Chosen Christian University, founded by Hedge's own grandfather and namesake, Horace Grant Underwood, one...

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