Word: scribner
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...said panting, his fatigues dripping with sweat and his arms so weary they dangled at his side, "over there, there is much shot and much hell. We are doing the best we can. We'll get 'em out." Scribner couldn't remember how many trips he had made across the valley...
...Scribner waited until his South Korean litter bearers had loaded the man they had just brought up onto a jeep. He shook himself, said, "Come on, characters," and started down into the valley and up the bloody ridge again...
...Scribner's Characters. The ridge became quiet. Medical corpsmen, 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...
...asked Charles Scribner, Medical Corpsman of Rochester, Mich, who had just come off the ridge with a load of wounded, what it was like over there on the unnamed real estate...
...South Koreans, without a word, picked up their litters and started following him down again into this green, green valley. I tried to get their names, but no one knew. They were just "Scribner's characters." They were good characters to have on your side...