Re: More on No Gun Ri

[<RonaldS842@aol.com>]

In a message dated 11/23/01 2:12:40 PM, LACarr@aol.com writes:

<< Tall tales 
get taller after 50 year. after 50 more years we will have wiped out the 
whole population of that area. Seems like the press would know by now that 
tales get bigger but that is how they sell papers.

Maury >>

Hi Maury-
   The question is always amazing and amusing to me.
   Not the ones that embarrass us or make us feel uncomfortable. Only the 
weird ones want to relive it over and over.
   Do bad things happen in all wars? Of course they do, use your logic. Chuck 
Yeager quietly answers questions about straffing women and children 
unprotected civilians as a 21 year old P-51 pilot. He says he was just 
following orders. A respected acedemic sociologist tells us years later  
about his troops killing 15-20 unarmed young, crying and pleading German 
soldiers in a bomb crater, the Great Turkey Shoot. This when he was a young 
2nd Lt. platoon leader. Pilots killed hundreds of thousands of old people and 
babies in cities in Germany and Japan and most were able to get on with their 
lives. I have never heard one of my friends brag about it.
   I think it was Phil Cavuto who told us that the toughest, most brutal guy 
in the world, is a 19 year old US Marine. He is not so concerned with civil 
rights, political correct, etc. Not when he is trying to save his life or 
those he loves. He will hear about that later on in life, in hindsight.  
Would he do it again under the same circumstances. Probably.
   Never forget...we are the good guys. Always have been, always will be.

Ronald Schultz
Moraga, CA