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The Library of Babel

August 18, 2008 - 5:53 pm - by Richard Fernandez
buddy larsen
2008-08-19 11:40:24

…but Chesty Puller WAS surrounded. 1st Marines fought their way out, in the coldest frozen winter imaginable (the “Frozen Chosin” they called it), outnumbered 30-1, and in the doing his 12,000-man 1st Marines broke up and scattered six of the 22 full 16,000-man soviet-size Chinese divisions surrounding and trying to annihilate him.