Frozen Chosin as Seen from Quantico— “Make Peace or Die” Excerpt
7 min readNov 28, 2020
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An excerpt from my father’s memoir — Make Peace or Die: A Life of Service, Leadership, and Nightmares — in which he asks to be sent to war.
In November, 1951, Charles U. Daly was at Quantico training to lead a Marine rifle platoon and thinking the Korean War would be over before he got a chance to fight in it. Then “Frozen Chosin” happened…