 This is Korea And this is Korea a Peaceful land once the lakes and villages and mountains where the rice grew men and women worked and people lived for living Until the ruthless red hand of communism reached out to snatch it old people kids And more kids sometimes I think that's the last thing any of us will ever forget those kids laughing crying homeless Hungry until we fed them Korea Where it gets cold in the wintertime as it does at home? Where young men and women marry where the kids used to play Apple slogging back from the desperate chosen reservoir fight Not retreating as they say But advancing in a different direction The first marine division the headman of the village watches them pass and wonders And the villagers still all wonder And little posangri wonders to amp near Mason for Christmas Christmas in the year of grace 1950 last Christmas Christmas Eve on their funny ice sleds they're on guard duty Merry Christmas Joe fleet post office mail stuff from home flown in by the Navy and is that welcome newspapers letters Did you remember some of the boys didn't get back for Christmas? They stayed where they fell and These are the replacements The new men to take their honored places to fill the gaps Look at their faces young faces American faces New York, Georgia, Idaho, Texas, Maine and California your sons With a pride in the core and the will to do Chow line for a real feed this time No K rations wolfed in a foxhole the first hot meal Get that the first hot meal in two months Stakes that the Navy flew in for Christmas dinner Hot coffee rather Fleet Marine Force headquarters and a formation for decorations for gallantry and action The Silver Star with General. Oh, he Smith himself making the presentations And the hard-bitten Marine Guard of Honor Marching past in formal ceremony The summer before at the Incheon landings And as part of the 8th Army under General Walton Walker the Marines move out on Sewell to snatch it back Faces look younger less tired Don't kid yourself They know what's ahead hard job Tough job So let's grab a bite and get up because they'll need version tanks Rumbling up to spearhead the action to come back for salvage Loaded with supplies for the front Here's our 75 millimeter anti-tank gun to argue with those people all the good old 30 caliber machine guns always Meet General Eddie Craig commanding the first Marine Provisional Brigade keen brain fighting man With his operations office Some we made our with the rifle is the front of the war 75 recoilless rifle and the Marines move on up homes on their backs how they cost and These are the boys who paid In spite of all the gallant work of the hospital corpsman walking when they still can Carried when they can't walk clearing station progressing I pose to kill the vicious pain giving Transfusions aren't you glad you gave that pint of blood but you will now Won't you while the fighting goes on below the best of medical care the Navy can give them go into school Lost once but taken again restraining Not so wrong look at this And look at it And look at it. That's what the Korean Republic is fighting for miles and miles and miles of homeless refugees Set adrift by the Red Skirt whole families starving fear-ridden Without hope beyond the United Nations thoughts for smallpox and typhus and they don't understand But they will it was a big problem what to do with the orphaned kids they picked up They had to leave them somewhere before they reached the front So they asked these good women to take them little Babe Ruth Demagio was not quite sure what it was all about solemn confused frightened Until he found friends And smiled and trust he'll be all right now smoke yet dope candy chewing gum kids But you have to teach them how to eat it Poor frightened little fellas out once again. How cold it gets in Korea brass monkey called That's cold Wet to moving north into war's desolation Patties and more right general chesty puller four times winner of the Navy cross put some more fire down on those people Is an air marker to indicate the front lines to planes sawtooth wind 20 freezing degrees below Looks a man wonder what he did with his last summer's pay, don't the prisoners come in looking a lot aren't they We searched them smashed their weapons this young kid says they killed his mother and father and gave him a gun That's all he knows about the war, but these wise mugs were tough They clammed up. They wouldn't sing and enemy divisions held us boxed in Surrounded all supply to get off and support these will be boys They'll keep clean and share their child with those poor Korean kids always This is not a child winter decisions had to be made in Tokyo and An old soldier made the decisions are passed to the Navy for action back to Tokyo again Vice Admiral Turner Joy Commander naval forces far east the situation in Korea is so critical That we in the Navy must give the 8th Army the maximum practical support I direct that the commander of the 7th Fleet The commander of carrier division 15 the fleet Marine Air Wing and the commander of United Nations Blockading an escort force be directed to provide the maximum possible air gunfire support make it move Meanwhile the Air Force under Lieutenant General stratomirer is alerted order caught rear Admiral Eddie Ewan's task force 77 refueling at sea Right in the middle of a winter storm We think the Admiral is praying for good weather and USS Missouri the mighty Moe comes in and vice Admiral Arthur Struble's 7th Fleet joins the battle Harriers stand by and the pilots are briefed napalm that is is a launch to support the Marines at the frontopter in the background is ditch patrol Then somebody ditches nice wet work back at the reservoir wounds and frostbite take their toll And the casualties go up by plane into those dug in commies For the thunder of the mighty moe. It's how the faces got tired when we go back again The long weary shuttle begins once more Another enemy position to take and this is how we take it first the air burns in in close support Tilery softens up the survivors and with small arms fire Bria chums This is Korea planes in close support Well, what's it all about? You tell us ask any of these guys what they're fighting for And they can't put it into words Maybe it's just pure cussedness And pride in the Marine Corps job to do and duty the wounds don't count for little Babe Ruth DiMaggio It's his whole future And all of his life ahead And that goes double for our own son's lives And yours For this is everybody's fight That the doctrine of life Liberty and the pursuit of happiness shall not perish from this earth