The Forgotten War

Townhall.com ^ | July 31, 2013 | Paul Greenberg

[GeronL]

The commies overran the peninsula and sacked Seoul and other cities. Without the landing at Inchon the whole thing would have been captured by the commies.

Remember that next time someone says the commies never got into South Korea.

[GeronL]

I do like the “The Bridges of Toko-Ri” movie.

[GeronL]

Let us not forget that North Korea was totally backed by China and even Russia (air force). South Korea had little more than a token military (if it could be called that) when the North invaded.

The fledgling Korean CIA was very helpful if not instrumental in helping set the stage for the Inchon landing.

[Fiji Hill]

The commies overran the peninsula and sacked Seoul and other cities. Without the landing at Inchon the whole thing would have been captured by the commies.

Remember that next time someone says the commies never got into South Korea.

Those low-information types who believe the commies never got into South Korea should smarten up by reading The Reds Take a City: The Communist Occupation of Seoul, With Eyewitness Accounts by John Riley (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1951).

[Pikachu_Dad]

There are two excellent Korean series on this war.
The Legend of the Patriots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV2-Bwt42Jo

Road One.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzBpaO77Xt8

EPIC Shows made from our Allies perspective.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Chesty Puller’s son, Lewis Burwell Puller Jr., was A Marine platoon commander in Vietnam when a booby-trapped artillery shell blew off both his legs and parts of both hands. Somehow he survived. Later, he had a couple of children, got a law degree and wrote his memoirs which received a Pulitzer Prize in 1991. He fought a constant bout with alcoholism, PTSD, an addiction to pain medication and complications resulting from his severe injuries. In 1994 he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

In Puller’s book, “Fortunate Son,” he wrote that when his father, Chesty, first saw him in the hospital the general broke down in tears. Puller Jr. said the image caused him more pain than his wounds.