Re: G.I. Loss in the DMZ

[Mike Davino <mdavino@yahoo.com>]

You can find a list of the names at this URL:

http://members.home.net/mohmedal/koreandmz.htm

Mike Davino


--- Jhk789@aol.com wrote:
> 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.....
> 


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