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Some of you "old" Temple Members will remember My Army buddy and fellow survivor, Ed Reeves. He preached for us and gave his testimony of survival of the Chosin Reservoir Battle, each time. I am including, below, a video about Ed's Commanding Officer, on the East side of the Chosin Reservoir. His name was, Lt.Col.
Don Faith and he had just assumed command of that Army Regiment after the death of his predecessor, a few hours earlier, in the same battle.
Ed was on one
of the thirty Army trucks of wounded, mentioned in the video, and was one, if not the only wounded man,
in that convoy of wounded, to survive. He told me that the Chinese first burned
those trucks by draining gas from them, throwing it into the back of the trucks
and burning the wounded soldiers alive. His truck had no gas in it because of a
bullet ruptured gas tank, so the Chinese simply shot everyone in his
truck, including him. But Ed played dead, was later dragged off the truck, bashed
in the head and thrown on a pile of dead, from which he later crawled away and
onto the frozen reservoir where our USMC Col. Beal found him and brought him back
into our Marine lines at Hagaru-ri. Beal rescued dozens of soldiers with his jeep and
trailer from off the frozen reservoir. The remains of those 30 trucks were
"later" bombed with napalm, by our air, and completely destroyed. Ed died
recently but has preached, for the church I pastored in Tallahassee, several times over the
years. He was wounded three times and lost both legs, to the knees, and all his
fingers and thumbs to frost-bite. This article does not mention the fact that the
trucks were first burned, with the wounded in them, by the Chinese. Ed Reeves
was a member of our Chosin Few, National, Army branch. He passed away recently..... but has joined Lt. Col. Faith and a great host of other believers around the throne of God. Psm.115:1, Rayburn Blair
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Apr 17, 2013
Korean War Hero's Remains Finally Come Home. God Rest His Soul ... Don Faith
Common Sense Commentary: I shall never forget these brave brothers in arms. RB
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