When an army company travels as a unit it is a slow event. You have to keep together and people have to eat and drink and rest. Here we have stopped for a rest. Every time you stop kids come up asking for work, food and candy. Many enterprising young boys get together shoeshine kits and ask to shine your shoes. It is very inexpensive and I always let them shine my shoes. It helps out their families, which are often quite poor and many had lost everything and their homes in this war. We pay them what they ask, perhaps 40-50 Won. 60 Won is a penny. There are few things to buy in shops. Sometimes you can find things made from beer cans, sometimes cigarette lighters, key chains, wallets, and other things made of leather. Later there were more things for sale like silk, jackets, and scarves. Sometimes they have American beer for sale. But you have to be careful because at times they fill an empty can with water and then seal it with something in the bottom. The military police put up signs warning about drinking native liquor. Sometimes it is ethyl alcohol and deadly. The signs list how many soldiers have gone blind or died from this lethal booze. I avoid it like the plague. I want to go home alive and well.