This book is dedicated to the late Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island, the captain of Dog Company, and to the men I first wrote about ten years ago in [[The Coldest War]]. And to all the Marines and other Americans who fought in the Korean War.

It is also for my daughters, Fiona and Susan, and for my grandchildren, Sarah, Joe, and Nick Konig, so they will know something about my friends, living and dead, who fought in Korea.

And for the great Eddie Adams, with whom I traveled back in time.