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Current mood:	nostalgic
Entry tags:	mulcahy, prompt #24

Prompt 24: Snow
It started snowing a few hours ago. I got up just now and went to the window: snow still falling, thickly, snow on snow.

The first real snow of winter.

I still remember how it used to snow in Korea. The army had put us in tents that were too cold in winter, stifling hot in summer: the first winter we all nearly froze.

But when the snow fell, covering the torn-up ground of our camp, the minefield, the war-torn fields around us - lethal though it often was, especially to the Koreans, who didn't have fuel to keep their homes warm - it was beautiful.

Three winters I spent there. Three Christmases in the oddest parish I'll ever have, the 4077th M*A*S*H. Three bleak midwinters.

That's what I remember, every time it snows.