Jan. 26, 1951
WITH 25TH INF. DIV. IN KOREA-Mercy extended
its hand a little farther at one medical clearing station of the 25th
Infantry Division recently.
A small Korean boy was brought into the aid station
by his smaller brother. The older lad had a deep laceration of the
scalp and a cut over his left eye. Surgical SFC Hernando C. Farmer
of Eupora, Miss., worked over the cuts, cleaning and stitching the
wounds.
Farmer, who has been in the Medical Corps eight
years, handled the wounds gently but now and then a stifled cry would
escape the tight lips of the Korean child. Capt. Arthur Reiter of
St. Louis, officer in charge of the aid station, would step over,
nod approval of Farmer's work and return to the treatment of wounded
soldiers. It took three hours to finish the job. Then the lad was
taken to a nearby Korean Police Station for further treatment and
released to join the long column of refugees streaming south to escape
the terror of war.
