mulcahy (mulcahy) wrote in voicesinmyhead, @ 2007-12-17 15:24:00 |
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Current mood: | nostalgic |
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.