War: 24 Hours

The Army communications machines at the Pentagon, one day last week, were hammering out the Korean casualty list. Next to the regular entry, "K.I.A." (killed in action), the machines printed: None. For the first time in 53 weeks, 24 hours had passed in Korea without a single U.S. soldier dying on the battlefield.

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