G.I. Loss in the DMZ

[<Jhk789@aol.com>]

According to the following AP report,
89 GIs died in the DMZ since the 1953
Armistice.

Does this figure sound true?

Does anyone have a breakdown of the list
by year and causes?

How many of the deaths are attributable to
incidents involving anti-personnel land mines?

John 2
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U.S. Soccer Team Visits Korean Border

By J. H. YUN
.c The Associated Press

  
PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) - The U.S. soccer team visited the border between the two Koreas on Friday, two days before playing an exhibition game against South Korea. 

A pack of North Korean border guards in olive-color uniforms followed the players' every move with binoculars. 

``It's really strange and it's bizarre. It felt like you are in a movie,'' defender Pablo Mastroeni said. 

Mastroeni and 18 other players - all from Major League Soccer - visited the 2 1/2-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone, the world's most heavily fortified buffer zone..... 

The DMZ - edged with minefields, crisscrossed with barbed wire, raked by searchlights - is a flash point for violence. Since the armistice, 89 American soldiers have died in the zone.....