Americans sometimes tend to forget it, but after 14 months of futile truce talks, there is still a war going on in Korea. Last week a battlefront dispatch by U.P. Correspondent Richard Applegate brought a stinging reminder:
"The boy was bleeding from the eyesboth eyeballs had been shot outand he was crying when I found him some 200 feet from the nearest dressing station . . .
"While I was talking to him two medics climbed laboriously up through the rocks trying to get him back to the aid station. I had been trying to comfort the lad, who had been...
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