Re: Scope of subjects for KOREAN-WAR-L

[Janet Valentine <valent03@bellsouth.net>]

Lee,  I understand you're point, and agree with your assessment of the
lack of popular interest in the war -  but I'm not sure that "a
conscious effort" is ever really a factor in public opinion. There are
any number of people who have opinions without paying any real attention
to the issues.  That was as true in 1950 as today.

Janet Valentine 

ChosinMead@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Janet Valentine wrote,"Popular support of the war [Korea] was at least
> as low
> as it was during Vietnam." To say that support was low, suggests that
> there
> was some support, it also suggests that support was lacking. Both
> assertions
> would require the population to be making a conscience effort to come
> to a
> decision. It was my experience that during the Korean War the only
> Americans
> who gave any conscience thought to the war were those who had loved
> ones
> fighting in Korea-for everyone else it was business as usual.
> Lee N. Mead

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