"Dear Mom and Dad
I finally got around to writing you a letter. I would have wrote sooner but I didn't have a chance. I have been very busy the past month and there was no place to mail the letter. I have been in Korea (first notice my grandparents received he was in Korea) the past month but I am OK. Our unit was hit pretty bad and there is only 400 of us left."
Before they entered the Hadong pass, there were 925 of them.