Word: craig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never saw men with so much guts," said Marine Brigadier General Edward Craig, as he watched through his glasses. Craig's hand trembled slightly, but his mouth was as determined as the thin line of marines on the forbidding face of the ridge...
...leading stretcher-bearing teams of brave and unflinching South Koreans, began to cross the valley to pick up the wounded. They carried the wounded through the valley at the foot of the ridge and up a narrow trail to an aid station just beyond the bean fields where General Craig sat sweeping the height with his field glasses. I sat there beside him, wondering if the stream of litter bearers would ever stop coming up out of that damned valley...
...Craig, a cold-eyed fighter, but a kind and sensitive man, tried not to look at his torn kids. Finally he said, with sad pride: "I haven't heard one of the wounded cry. These marines have got more guts than I have. We'll take this piece of real estate, but the cost is going to be terrible...
...Padre Was Brave. The ridge did not stay quiet for long. As Craig prepared to order the second assault wave into the valley, U.S. artillery opened up on the Red positions once more. Then the Corsairs came roaring out of the sky again, their gull-like wings almost scraping the tops of the shabby shrubbery on No Name Ridge. Rockets burst all over the ridge with searing, orange explosions; the Corsairs' machine guns stitched line after line of death up, down and across the ridge...
...Korea last week, General Craig had quite a reputation to uphold-for himself and for the Corps. Said he: "My boys will do their best. I'll do my best. Let's hope we'll be good enough...