Give Me Tomorrow
A Marine, stunned by the bitter cold and lack of sleep, grabs a moment's rest during the retreat from Chosin Reservoir, December, 1950, in North Korea. "The number one concern there," Duncan remembers of Chosin, "was the cold. Frostbite was commonplace. The simple fact is, even in a battle like that, it's unlikely that many people are going to get shot, but anybody can freeze." This photograph is associated with one of the most famous quotes to emerge from the war. Duncan says that he asked this Marine, frozen almost to death, a question that would be "idiotic or sacrilegious under normal circumstances" but was quite normal there: "If I were God," he asked the Marine, "what would you want for Christmas?" After a long, long time, the Marine answered, "Give me tomorrow."
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