Nothing Saved Us: Poems of the Korean War

Over the course of two years, Tamra J. Higgins interviewed her father, Wayne L. Case, Marine Corps Private First Class, about his experiences on the front lines in the Korean War. The results of those conversations are poems found in the first half of Nothing Saved Us: Poems of the Korean War, poems that show how soldiers cope with war’s absurdity and how luck plays a vital role in their survival. But the soldier’s life is only part of the story of war that Higgins wanted to understand. In ...