Re: Safire's assertion

[Ed Evanhoe <gangster@oio.net>]

>Gernilee,

> >.   Well, there sure is a glaring absence of movies about the Korean War
>Police Action(sic). War movies all over the place all the time - but none 
>on the Korean War.    Jeez, if Washington could influence Hollywood to not 
>make films about the Korean War, why can't they get them to stop making 
>the sick stuff they make now?  It must be an indicator of how much 
>interest they really take, and they must have had a lot of interest in 
>keeping the public in the dark about the Korean War.<<

>Simplistically, movies, novels and histories produced during (and in the 
>period following it) the Korean War about the war bombed so both movie 
>producers and publishing houses quit producing and publishing.  Once the 
>war became "ho hum" after cease fire talks began, apathy set in.  Times 
>were tough and most Americans, unless they had a family member in Korea, 
>were more interested in making a living than worrying about a war fought 
>by a "few" American troops in a country the vast, vast majority had never 
>heard of prior to the North Korean invasion June 25, 1950.

I still remember arriving back in the U.S. shortly before Xmas 1952 after 
2-1/2 years in Korea (minus a few months in various hospitals in Japan.)  I 
flew back, landing at San Francisco.  It was a helluva shock to find most 
people knew almost nothing of what was going on in Korea and even the ones 
who did didn't seem to care.  For weeks I had the feeling everyone was 
"out-of-step" but me.

Regards