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2021-06-27 China-Japan-Koreas

Korean War - The Turning of the Tide Aug. 1950

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Posted by badanov 2021-06-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Had the pleasure of golfing with gentleman who served in Korea. He was 90 years old and at 78 I really appreciate what he and others accomplished.

Posted by crazyhorse 2021-06-27 01:29|| 2021-06-27 01:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Thanks for posting these historical articles Bad.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-27 07:46|| 2021-06-27 07:46|| Front Page Top

#3 It's amazing to me, having done a tour there to see the contrast in accomplishment by South Korea. By the time of the cease fire the place was devastated. It's a small country with limited natural resources and land suitable for agriculture. Compare their situation with Mexico in 1953. Mexico has vast natural resources, abundant farm lands, a greater population, and had not suffer the devastation the Koreans had. Yet today when listing GDP for each, they are usually listed one before the other around the same location in the standings. Corruption is present in any government, but the degree it is pervasive in the culture easily reaches the self destructive and crippling levels.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-27 08:10|| 2021-06-27 08:10|| Front Page Top

#4
My father (Sgt. in Yankee Div.) on leaving France/Germany/Austria thought he landed a great assignment doing occupational duty in Kobe Japan, and then the Communists invaded Korea.

He earned his next Bronze Star somewhere up there by what was called the Lincoln Line.

A few years later we were all sitting in front the TV watching Battlefield and he saw himself marching long a roadside. He said he got wounded 2 days after that march was filmed.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-06-27 09:37|| 2021-06-27 09:37|| Front Page Top

#5 #4 Congrats on your father's service. I had to look up the Lincoln Line: it's generally discussed here.

Posted by Matt 2021-06-27 10:09|| 2021-06-27 10:09|| Front Page Top

#6 @#4 Thanks for his service

Posted by Frank G 2021-06-27 10:57|| 2021-06-27 10:57|| Front Page Top

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