Marc: I'm sorry, I guess I'm self referencing too much. I was speaking of the first week of the war in which my brother was KIA on July 11. Gernilee
----- Original Message ----- From: Marc James Small Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 12:07 PM To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu Subject: Re: The Minstrel Boy
At 01:36 AM 5/9/2001 EDT, ChosinMead@aol.com wrote:
>If you please. You are painting all of the units fighting in the early year
>of the war with the "same broad brush." The difficulties you so accurately
>describe did not apply to the First Marine Division. They came fully
trained,
>fully equipped, and at all times performed at the highest possibly level.
An excellent point. This thread, though, began discussing the US Army and
I, at least, had specifically mentioned the vital role the Marines played
in allowing the Pusan Perimeter to be held.
Marc
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