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Last edited by Mark in Rochester; 05-18-2009 at 11:19 PM.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
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Another great pic Mark, thanks. Does he have rubber slip overs on his boots? Safety off, whats with that?.....Frank
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
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As far as the safty being off, there is a good possibility that the M1 is not loaded. I would bet those two POWs are quite content to be sitting it out on that ship. You would need a loaded weapon to force them to leave the comfort of the ship and return to combat.
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Last edited by Joe W; 04-18-2009 at 04:43 PM.
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Not a good way to be holding the muzzle of a loaded weapon, Ray
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Notice the picture of North Korea going up in smoke. The US pancaked the North as we withdrew. It took North Korea years to re-build the country. My Chinese friends tell me that in China today all of the history books describe how the USA started the Korean War. They are stunned when they visit the USA and learn the truth.
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My wife's mother comes from Northern Korea near the border with China. The woman, was pregnant in 1950 with two small children. The husband disappeared, probably grabbed by the communists and impressed into the North Korean Army.
They ran, with hordes of other refugees, all the way down through Seoul, ending up in Pusan where my wife was born. She tells me that there are still markers around the port city to commemorate the Walker Line and Pusan Perimeter. Unlike the United States today, school children in South Korea are taught not only their own, but also American History. They know who General Walker was and what the Americans and allies did there.
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Chinese & North Korean prisoners --
One of the reasons the war dragged on so long was the prisoner issue.
The Communists would not release our prisoners (any) unless we returned ALL North Korean and Chinese prisoners.
However, many, perhaps most, did not want to go back to the "people's liberated worker's paradise." They wanted to go to Taiwan or be released in the ROK.
Syngman Rhee, for his own political reasons, just had his guards on his PoW camps open the fences and let the prisoners run for the hills rather than go "home."
It took lots of talking but eventually the Communists did release most of our prisoners. IIRC it was finally established that many American and British PoWs, mainly pilots, were kept in Communist captivity and died there over the next years or even decades.
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A few years ago I caught part of a documentary on NK and it showed school children doing "duck and cover" drills under desks for WHEN American bombers come.
They are taught at an early age that America is BAD.