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re: Why doesn’t the Korean War get more recognition?
Posted on 4/22/20 at 11:50 am to BowDownToLSU
Posted on 4/22/20 at 11:50 am to BowDownToLSU
quote:My great uncle was a captain in Korea and some Turks fought under his command
My dad was stationed in Korea right after the war. There were still plenty of troops from different countries there he said. My dad said that the Turks were some of the toughest men he had ever met. He and one of his army buddies were on leave one weekend when they went into a bar and there was a couple of Turks sitting in back. The Turks carried these really big knives. My dads buddy ask one of the could he see it, the Turk says sure. My dad’s buddy hands it back and the Turk slices his own hand. They were like “ What the hell “? The Turk said it was kind of their religion if the knife comes out it has to have blood on it before he could holster it back
After their first skirmish, he noticed the Turks going back and basically gutting all the dead enemy soldiers. He was going to put an end to it, but he noticed how much confidence and vigor it gave his American troops to know they were fighting along side absolute savage machines. So he didn’t say shite and the Turks continued to do that after every battle
TLDR: don’t mess with turks
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Posted on 4/22/20 at 11:57 am to DeafJam73
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My grandfather was in the 101st in Korea. He was a POW. Received a Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts. He had nightmares every night until he died. He never talked about it.
Salute to your grandfather. Being a Chinese or North Korean POW was WAY worse than being a POW of any other country, with the obvious exception of Japan.
Posted on 4/22/20 at 12:09 pm to jlovel7
Korea was a war where the US successfully stopped the further spread of communism. This does not fit the progressive narrative where the superiority, success, and eventual “victory” of socialism and communism is inevitable. Korea proved the spread of Communism can be halted. Focusing on the Korean War would shine a positive light on the US and a negative light on Communism. This is why the the Vietnam War is highly recognized, although the lie that we lost the Vietnam War has been perpetuated for almost 50 years now.
Basically it boils down to politics, as so much does now. The Koran War simply doesn’t fit the progressive narrative so it’s swept aside and ignored.
Basically it boils down to politics, as so much does now. The Koran War simply doesn’t fit the progressive narrative so it’s swept aside and ignored.
Posted on 4/22/20 at 12:10 pm to BlackCoffeeKid
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I was never taught one lesson throughout all of my schooling on Vietnam or Korea.
Disappointed. I graduated high school in 1977, college in 1983. The only thing I ever saw about Korea was from watching MASH. Everything I got on Vietnam was from Walter Kronkite and Dan Rather. Was hoping schools had worked them in by now.
Posted on 4/22/20 at 12:18 pm to chinese58
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I was never taught one lesson throughout all of my schooling on Vietnam or Korea.
Disappointed. I graduated high school in 1977, college in 1983. The only thing I ever saw about Korea was from watching MASH. Everything I got on Vietnam was from Walter Kronkite and Dan Rather. Was hoping schools had worked them in by now.
It’s like I said, education has for decades been filtered through a progressive filter. The Korean War does not fit the progressive narrative so it’s ignored or glossed over as much as possible. As for the Vietnam War what is taught about it is an outright lie.
Posted on 4/22/20 at 12:23 pm to LSUinMA
Wife's uncle used to tell this story.
"I arrived on base in a cargo plane and the CO met me on the tarmac". He said "Son, you're a second lieutenant". "ROTC and basic training". "I'm gonna give you some advice since you don't know shite". "Think, before you want to act like Teddy "frickin" Roosevelt or you won't last as long as that sack of potatoes you're standing next to".
"I arrived on base in a cargo plane and the CO met me on the tarmac". He said "Son, you're a second lieutenant". "ROTC and basic training". "I'm gonna give you some advice since you don't know shite". "Think, before you want to act like Teddy "frickin" Roosevelt or you won't last as long as that sack of potatoes you're standing next to".
Posted on 4/22/20 at 12:43 pm to FriscoTiger
quote:I was up in Area 1 in 99-00. That place has the second worst weather I've ever experienced. Deep South in the summer and Siberia in the winter. I spent my 21st birthday freezing my arse off on a mountaintop. -40 degrees. I entertained myself by counting how long it took my loogies to freeze. That exercise was only a couple of weeks. It had to be hell on earth for the guys that fought there.
I spent a year at Osan AB in the nineties. 7 months of extreme cold. It stayed between 20-30 degrees with a mix of sleet/rain and a nice 10-15 mph wind. The 3 summer months were 80-90 degree range with 99% humidity.
Posted on 4/22/20 at 12:48 pm to jlovel7
I was fortunate enough to do a staff ride back in the late 1990's to see where the Battle of Chipyong-Ni occurred. My Battalion at the time, was one of the main bodies in the fight (my later battalion was the main artillery unit supporting the fight). The current battlefield sits on a RoK Army compound, so we got permission to walk the grounds in person. It was incredible to walk the ground, see the trenches and talk to the local townsfolk that were present during the Battle. I can't even imagine how frightening it must have been.
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