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Why doesn’t our society ever talk about how few Korean War vets are left?
Posted on 6/28/26 at 11:04 pm
Posted on 6/28/26 at 11:04 pm
Those guys are old and also vanishing at a rapid pace.
You see almost nothing about them, anywhere.
Forgotten War and all I guess.
You see almost nothing about them, anywhere.
Forgotten War and all I guess.
This post was edited on 6/28/26 at 11:24 pm
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Posted on 6/28/26 at 11:07 pm to weagle1999
Tell us all about them instead of asking questions.
Google and AI are your friends.
Google and AI are your friends.
This post was edited on 6/28/26 at 11:09 pm
Posted on 6/28/26 at 11:20 pm to weagle1999
FYI, it's pronounced KO-rhea.
Posted on 6/28/26 at 11:43 pm to weagle1999
Grandfather was a navigator in the b29 Superfortress for ww2 then the same in the Korean War. Passed in 2009 from cancer. Doc told him he could undergo treatment and last 6 months, or not and last 6 weeks. He denied treatment and died 8 weeks later in his chair at his poker table, with a cigar in his hand and scotch in his glass.
Posted on 6/28/26 at 11:57 pm to weagle1999
My father was in the ROTC when Korea broke out. He didn’t want to go to Korea and knew that a fresh Second Lieutenant would be on the first plane over. So, he dropped out of ROTC, but was later drafted. He was now a buck private but was sent to work at the embassy in Mexico City instead of Korea, so it all worked out in the end. His Uncle Sam even let him out early so that he could start his teaching career.
Posted on 6/28/26 at 11:58 pm to weagle1999
My grandpa Wilbert served there. He passed 25 years ago.
Central Texas Baw (Brenham).. Son of German immigrants. His dad served Kaiser Wilhelm II
U.S. Army.. Bronze Star for Valor
They're a forgotten class of servicemen who deployed to a combat zone.
The Korean War is kind of a foggy spot in the zeitgeist
Central Texas Baw (Brenham).. Son of German immigrants. His dad served Kaiser Wilhelm II
U.S. Army.. Bronze Star for Valor
They're a forgotten class of servicemen who deployed to a combat zone.
The Korean War is kind of a foggy spot in the zeitgeist
This post was edited on 6/29/26 at 3:24 am
Posted on 6/29/26 at 12:05 am to FAT SEXY
I don’t think 15% of the population remember or understand what the Korean War was about
Posted on 6/29/26 at 12:05 am to weagle1999
I had 2 Korean war vet neighbors and one ww2 vet. They all passed around 15 years ago.
A Korean vet would be in their 90s now
A Korean vet would be in their 90s now
Posted on 6/29/26 at 1:03 am to weagle1999
My dad was a paratrooper in Korea. He was captured and spent 18 months as a POW in a camp along the Yalu River. He died in 1991 when I was 12 but his PTSD was severe. He couldn’t sleep in a bed with my mom because he’d wake up trying to fight her. He had muscles torn off the bone. They used some kind of chemical on him where he had burn scars all over his neck, back and ears. They tattooed numbers on his shoulder blade that he tried to cut out with a scalpel at the VA hospital in Nola. He was good dad as far as I can remember but he definitely wasn’t anything close to normal.
It’s definitely a forgotten war. I have his Purple Heart in a box on my desk and think about him everyday even 35 years later.
It’s definitely a forgotten war. I have his Purple Heart in a box on my desk and think about him everyday even 35 years later.
This post was edited on 6/29/26 at 1:05 am
Posted on 6/29/26 at 2:09 am to weagle1999
The wife’s grandfather was an air traffic controller in the Korean War. He passed a few months ago.
Posted on 6/29/26 at 2:16 am to weagle1999
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Forgotten War and all I guess.
Far from forgotten. My father was involved and he passed in 2011
But hardly a "War" more of an embarrassment or more technically the "Korean Conflict"
Let me state for the record that I'm ultra conservative and I agree with the premise of the time that we needed to rid the world of communism to protect the future safety and freedom of the U.S. and our allies.
But.... the "conflict" was horribly mismanaged and overly political and it drug out for years resulting in the needless deaths of 37,000 United States military personal and countless soldiers like Tigerdew's father were left permanently scarred and their lives ruined.
Handled properly the "War" would have been won quickly and decisively leading to the elimination of Kim il Sung and the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea
and today there would have been no Kim Jong il, no Kim Jong Un and Korea would just be one country named "Korea"
This post was edited on 6/29/26 at 2:29 am
Posted on 6/29/26 at 2:49 am to FAT SEXY
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The Korean War is kind of a foggy spot in the zeitgeist
The most I know about it I learned from M*A*S*H.
Sad but mostly true.
Posted on 6/29/26 at 2:59 am to shutterspeed
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it's pronounced KO-rhea
Thanks Einstein for the 1st grade grammar lesson.
Posted on 6/29/26 at 3:28 am to weagle1999
My dad went to Korea just as the war was ending. He had never been out of Albany, La when he was drafted A couple months later he’s in Korea He had a lot of stories about his experiences there. He passed in 2018 but I remember this one. He and a buddy were on R&R in Korea at a bar where several Turkish soldiers were also relaxing. My dad always said the Turkish soldiers were big, tough men.
His friend asked one of the Turkish soldiers if he could see his bayonet. The Turkish soldier smiled, handed it to him, and let him look it over. When my dad’s friend gave it back, the Turkish soldier took the bayonet, sliced the palm of his own hand, and wiped the blood on the blade before sliding it back into its sheath.
My dad and his friend were stunned. They asked, “Why in the world would you do that?”
The Turkish soldier replied, “We are ordered that if we draw our bayonet, there must be blood on it before it goes back in.”
His friend asked one of the Turkish soldiers if he could see his bayonet. The Turkish soldier smiled, handed it to him, and let him look it over. When my dad’s friend gave it back, the Turkish soldier took the bayonet, sliced the palm of his own hand, and wiped the blood on the blade before sliding it back into its sheath.
My dad and his friend were stunned. They asked, “Why in the world would you do that?”
The Turkish soldier replied, “We are ordered that if we draw our bayonet, there must be blood on it before it goes back in.”
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