Posted on 09/07/2007 7:41:24 PM PDT by Dubya
How about a challenge to all seal teams. First team to demo the ship and make it out of N. korea has the bragging rights.
I would not lose sleep if their tourist attraction disappeared one night is a ball of flames and thunder.
I do not know what those monsters did to our people while they were in their custody, but I knew one of them for a year and a half while I was in Viet Nam. He would never speak about it at all.
I remember when the Pueblo was captured.
After the crews return to San Diego, they were
taken around 7 blocks up the street from me to
the Naval Hospital.
Some yrs. later I had got to shake hands with
Loyd Bucher, the skipper
Could you remind me, and the reporter, who was Commander in Chief in 1999?
That damn ship should have been sunk, right then. If not then, sink it at the pier now.
Interesting, what were the circumstances that you got to meet him? The Chi-coms ramming our P-3 in 2001 seems eerily similar to the Pueblo event.
Correct on your first guess! It was Time that triggered the borderline-fatal weeks of beatings that the crew endured after the Koreans showed them the Time magazine copy in an assembly.
From Bucher's account of their Time-Out:
"...threatened me with speedy execution after an [absolutely inevitable] trial. He was pretty convincing about it and I was returned to my cell feeling that my chances for survival had sunk to zero."
"Radioman Hayes had his jaw broken."
"...beatings were repeated twice a day and at least once a night over the next several days and soon my ribs felt cracked, my guts ruptured, my testicles ready to burst, and my face a pulp with all my front teeth loosened and almost falling out."
"I was by now staggering down the corridor once again urinating blood in a latrine fouled with the vomit of men sickened by their injuries."
Gosh, how'd you do it? We conservatives just seem psychic sometimes.
The Pueblo was based here originally.
AS with most of the crew, they continued on
here in San Diego.
During a rally for the troops during the early
WOT Boucher was there as was Duncan Hunter.
I had a chance to speak to him and shake his hand.
He is buried here at Fr. Rosecrans National Cem.
“The photo was published in a U.S. newsmagazine with an explanation of the real meaning of the gesture, enraging the North Koreans.” ................ Let me guess, Time? Newsweek?
Traitors then, traitors now. But this time we have the Internet and Free Republic!;)
It's a little late for that, but I like the way you think.....
Stephen Decateur and his crew must be turning in their graves.
We should bomb it.
Why?
1.5 Million North Korean troops poised at the 38th parallel, waiting to invade the south and itching for a reason. All they need is an "international incident" to set them moving south....especially if they think our military is stretched thin with Iraq, Afghanistan and the rest of the battles going on with the war against the Islamo-Facists.....
You may not belive it
Yes I know about the USS Liberty. Very sad that we did nothing about it.
I was a Sp4 stationed at the 121st Evac Hosp in 1968 and was sent to meet the crew when they were released. I was in that 1st bus you see in that pic at the bridge of no return. Capt.Bucher was seated between to men that immediately started asking him questions about what documents were destroyed and before he could complete his answer was asked a question by the other person who I’m guessing was either Naval Intel or CIA. The crew was taken to the 121st for medical exams and the next day sent home. For a 19 y/o it was quite an experience.
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