Re: DMZ-Korea

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Are you anti-American RON...!   It is OK to have someone flame this listserver
with thier opinion that you agree with and and not others who do not?  If this is
so you are AntiAmerican.  Is that what you are saying?

What I have learned in this post is what really happened in history.
Getting the details straight gives us a template to avoid decisions
that lead us into worse situations.  The same unwitting decisions
that are made in all forms of business and wars which casue major losses and
defeats.
Need I remind you of ENRON...

What most of us are learning is not pretty. A lot of people were killed over
someone elses ideas all in the name of saving a country or a leaders ass.  The
truth hurts and reinforces healthy values. Denial of events is LYING....

Dan Fahey


RonaldS842@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 3/22/02 10:21:52 PM, Decaturvlp@aol.com writes:
>
> << You would have to assume that the Rhodes scholar
> would have noticed the rather dark view,  >>
>
> Hi Tony-
>
>    Welcome back bud, we missed you. Your remarks were legit IMHO, whilst
> Dan's were flames and pouts. Not at all group friendly.
>    I was beginning to think that half this group is definately anti-American.
>    If the USAF figures and UN figures are wildly inflated then can we suppose
> the USMC and Army figures are wildly inflated too, Ed? Maybe the Marines lost
> 10 times the number they reported and were only 10% as effective as we have
> heard against that great Russian equipment. Maybe they killed few if any NKs
> except women and children. Hey, the figures are starting to come out.
>    But here are some more figures on repatriation reported by the UN. In all
> the Communists turned over 13,444 UN prisoners including 8,321 SKs and 3,746
> Americans. However only 6,670 of the Chinese prisoners in UN hands were
> handed over, 14,247 refused repatriation, most choosing to live in Taiwan
> under the Nationalist Chinese government. A higher percentage of NKs opted to
> return home, 75,823 of the 88,501. However, to the 12,000 or so choosing to
> remain in the South one might add the estimated 25,000 released by the South
> Korean government prior to the truce agreement.
>    Compare this to the sensational postwar story in America centered on the
> conduct and choices of a distinct handful of Americans who were among the UN
> prisoners in Communist hands. In all there were 347 of the 13,880 total who
> refused repatriation  Of these "nonrepatriates" there were 325 Koreans, 21
> Americans, and one soldier from the United Kingdom.
>
> Ron