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Good points, Shem:
I suppose self-glorification is old as humanity
(remember "the big fish" that got away?)
I freely admit that I have stretched my war-time
'exploits' a little when I was a young buck, decades ago, chasing after
lissome doe. I have put my records clean and straight since
then.
What irked me the most is government-sponsored
glorification/falsification of "war" heroes. There are quite a few war
"memoirs" written by South Korean generals. For example, Baik Sung Yup's "My
War" wants you to believe that he was the key man in winning (?) the Korean
War. Some SK official pub lists
Baik one of the best generals in Korean history.
If my memory serves me right, Paik got "sick" and
helicoptered out when his army corps was surrounded and smashed by Peng in North
Pyongahn Province. His generals followed his example and fled. Gen.
MacArthur had the lesser fellows court-martialed.
I am yapping off the top of my head here. I
would appreciate more accurate info on these events.
Young
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 2:40
AM
Subject: Re: WANNABE HUNTERS
It just seemed to me that, while fake vets cut at the very
heart of what it
means to have been a genuine vet, still it remains a fact
that fakes don't
have the monopoly on abusing the image of good military
service in order to
manipulate people. It seems to me that genuine
veterans who behave badly can
blacken the image even more than the fakes
do - if only because the fakes
are exposed as liars and cheats anyway
(which the serving officer I
mentioned will never be, because the Army has
taken him back into its bosom
and lets him continue to strut around
showing off his medals just as if he
is an impeccable pillar of decent
society). Sorry, folks, to kick this horse
to death, but this discussion
thread just struck a raw nerve. Please forgive
- you're right, some things
are possibly best left private.
>From: "Vincent H. Bartning"
<Bartning@prodigy.net>
>Reply-To:
KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
>To:
<KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
>Subject:
Re: WANNABE HUNTERS
>Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:14:06
-0700
>
>Shem:
>
>Are guys with poor ethics a
problem? Does that phrase it well? I guess
>some things are
better left private too
though...
>
>Vincent
>
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