Frozen Sniper

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If Micajah "Caje" Cole had not gone hunting on that perfect fall morning, he never would have found himself, months later, fighting for his life against a Chinese sniper in the frozen Taebaek Mountains of Korea. It was a battle that would come to be known as the Chosin Reservoir, one of the U.S. Army's greatest calamities since ol' Sitting Bull had taught General Custer a thing or two.

But on that crisp fall morning, the future was yet to come, and Cole faced nothing more threatening than coming home empty-handed. Even that wasn't a life-or-death situation. Unlike when he'd been a boy in the shack near Gashey's Creek, when he'd gone to bed hungry on many nights, the larder of Cole's cabin was stocked with canned goods: beans mostly, but also canned peaches and even a few cans of stew and chili.

Cole climbed steadily up the mountain well before daybreak, moving silently in the twilit shadows. He was so quiet that he came upon a fox scratching for mice under a fallen log. The fox didn't sense him until the last moment and then, finally catching sight of Cole, disappeared in a streak of red through the smooth gray trunks of the maples.

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