Re: Rewriting History

[<ChicoRamos1889@aol.com>]

In a message dated 5/27/02 11:27:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
mdavino@yahoo.com writes:

<< Subj:     Rewriting History
 Date:  5/27/02 11:27:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time
 From:  mdavino@yahoo.com (Mike Davino)
 Sender:    owner-KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
 Reply-to:  KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
 To:    KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
 
 Here is another attempt at rewriting history:
 
 Effort is on to exonerate 65th Infantry Regiment
 soldiers court-martialed during Korean War
 
 Fifty years after 91 soldiers from the the 65th
 Infantry Regiment were sentenced to years of hard
 labor for refusing to fight in the weeks after the
 Battle for Outpost Kelly in Korea, a younger
 generation is campaigning to restore the
 once-celebrated name of the 65th. They blame the
 soldiers' disobedience not on cowardice but on a lack
 of training, poor leadership and simple racial
 prejudice. They say the unit was singled out for
 prosecution because its members were Puerto Rican.
 Bolstered by a new Army review that largely affirms
 their arguments, and supported by a growing number of
 politicians on Puerto Rico and in Congress, they are
 calling on President Bush to exonerate the
 court-martialed soldiers
  >>
In relation to this  subject we here in Central Florida were told by an  
article in  the
Orlando Sentinel by a Porto Rican lady journalist that "the reason those P R 
troops
had refused to continue fighting" was because they felt they were ordered to 
fight
and risk their lives SOLELY  because  they belonged to a racial minority! 
No more comment on my part except to say: what'd have happened  if the troops
about  to land in Inchon ,Korea,would have refused claiming they were  being 
misused because they were members of a certain group?   Chico