Re: korean-war.com (off topic)

["swan" <swan@haysco.net>]

   Actually, I have been at peace for a long time. The nightmares didn't
really last very long. The judicuious use of Falstaff beer may have helped
some in this respect. It has probably been 50 years since I would duck when
I heard a car backfire.
   Life did move on quickly in Korea. And now, thanks to the watchful eyes
of about 40,000 American G.I.s Korea has become one of the most prosperous
nations in Asia.
    The people in America have given scant notice to this war, because we
weren't really fighting to protect America. North Korea posed little or no
threat to the U.S. but it posed a very dire threat to South Korea, and they
seem to have forgotten that we removed that threat .... and have held it at
bay for 50 years.

Bob Dove



----- Original Message -----
From: "Love Shack" <Home@DanSources.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: korean-war.com (off topic)


> You have to find peace somehow.
> It was a wicked killing field.
> Life moved on quickly to other things.
>
> Dan
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "swan" <swan@haysco.net>
> To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 2:58 PM
> Subject: Re: korean-war.com (off topic)
>
>
> > Heroes have a short shelf-life. Even in Korea, where our guys were
> > slaughtered in the first few days of the war, and later we endured the
> > bitter cold of North Korea, our efforts are no longer appreciated. But
> this
> > doesn't detract one whit from what we accomplished there.
> >
> > Bob Dove
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Love Shack" <Home@DanSources.com>
> > To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:39 PM
> > Subject: Re: korean-war.com (off topic)
> >
> >
> > > I understand your point.
> > > BUT that is not how the country felt.
> > > hense the name Forgotten War..
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "swan" <swan@haysco.net>
> > > To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 2:30 PM
> > > Subject: Re: korean-war.com (off topic)
> > >
> > >
> > > > That was the first - and only - time we fought communist forces to a
> > > > standstill (Grenada doesn't really count. The Salvation Army could
> whip
> > > the
> > > > Cuban army). And it is the last war in which we forced our enemy to
> sign
> > a
> > > > cease-fire agreement. South Korea is still in control of its own
> > destiny.
> > > > That alone is enough to put our war in the "win" column.
> > > >
> > > > Bob Dove
> > > > GHQ 1st Raider Co.
> > > > Korea 1950
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Love Shack" <Home@DanSources.com>
> > > > To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:00 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: korean-war.com (off topic)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Somehow I do not think it is a Forgotten War
> > > > > Just the first war in a long time we did not outright win.
> > > > > Kinda tough to talk about something you could not decisively
> fininsh.
> > > > > Just like Vietnam, not a lot of modivation to talk about success.
> > > > > OR even what you were fighting about.
> > > > >
> > > > > Dan
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: "Ed Evanhoe" <evanhoe1@korean-war.com>
> > > > > To: <korean-war-l@UKANS.EDU>
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:21 PM
> > > > > Subject: korean-war.com (off topic)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > After four years on-line (as of midnight last night)
> KOREAN-WAR.COM
> > > has
> > > > > > received a total of 883,486 hits with 299,102 of these since Jan
> 1,
> > > this
> > > > > > year.  Not bad for "niche" web site and shows there is still an
> > > interest
> > > > > in
> > > > > > "THE FORGOTTEN WAR."
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ed
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>