Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the tent flaps, walking or on litters, came men of the 23rd and 38th Infantry Regiments (2nd Division). They had fought their way out of Chinese encirclement in the rain-shrouded mountains and muddy valleys to the north. They had been coming in all day, and now it was midnight, and still they came, blinking and squinting, out of the night...
...Thanks, buddy," as someone handed him a lighted cigarette. A stout medic at the flaps suddenly shouted, "Litter case!" Two soldiers walked carefully into the tent, laid a stretcher on packing cases in the cone of light from a spotlight. The man on the stretcher moaned faintly. A field dressing lay across his eyes. His face was dirty, bearded, bloody. A doctor in an undershirt looked at the medical sergeant across the stretcher and shook his head in pity. Then he leaned over the wounded man and began gently to remove the field dressing...
...bench against the wet canvas wall a towheaded young Ranger, his left forearm swathed in a bloody dressing made from the sleeve of his green fatigue jacket, asked with weary anxiety if anyone had seen any others of his company. Then, through the tent entrance came a 19-year-old boy. His eyes stared unseeing, he had the face of a man of 90. A chaplain gently forced him to sit down, asked his name and his outfit. The boy did not hear...
...Acute Anxiety." The medic at the door continued his record of those who came into the tent, putting notations beside names: "Gunshot wound . . . acute anxiety . . . broken wrist." Outside, the rain ceased and a single star broke through a rift in the clouds. The artillery hammered...
Beside the tent flap, the recording of pain went on. The officer in charge dragged heavily on a cigarette and squinted bloodshot eyes against the light...