Posted on 07/28/2018 9:46:21 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In the Korean War era, the UN was viewed differently than today. You cannot judge the actions of a preceding generation with the memes of the current one.
Probably the last and only good thing the UN did.
The UN has become like the fictitious SKYNET.
It has morphed into the servant determined to dominate and replace its creator.
The US has always provided the bulk of UN financing and the US military has always done the bulk of the fighting and dying in major UN operations.
In every UN operation the US carries the heavy load.
The UN is nothing more than a worthless herd of bloviating Fat Cats sitting around scheming of ways to gain more power and of squeezing more money from US taxpayers.
Without the US vision, money and muscle the UN wouldn’t exist.
It’s a pretend game - world leaders, led by the USA, pretend the UN is an effective, competent world force for peace and good works in order to give the UN fake creds.
Fake creds that it doesn’t earn or deserve.
While the US fights wars and “conflicts” under the UN flag the UN takes the money we give them and works to destroy the the US and replace it with New World Order.
Appropriate is irrelevant
The remain cartons draped in the UN Flag was Diplomatically Correct.
When dealing diplomaticlly, one must be DC
They'll be sent to a military lab in Hawaii for identification.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/military-combines-several-tools-to-identify-korean-remains/2018/07/27/0fe8ba82-91e0-11e8-ae59-01880eac5f1d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5f8b54460e9c
Maybe they are US soldiers remains. Lets wait and see.
They were fighting under that flag.
Interesting we teach/learn so much history on Freepers. This brought many memories when as a young girl, two of my four brothers left our home for the Korean War. Thankfully both returned home safely. Now one died several years ago and the other is 88 years old and very weak.
“In the Korean War era, the UN was viewed differently than today. You cannot judge the actions of a preceding generation with the memes of the current one.”
I read an old American Legion magazine, probably about 1960, and it had an article about Americans fighting in the Korean War under the UN flag. That was just one of the things about the Korean War the writer was very critical of.
“Appropriate is irrelevant”
Well, just listen to you. I wonder if you would be that objective and understanding and generous if you had a loved one returning in a box from Korea.
Thanks to your brothers for their service. I had an uncle who was an Army “lifer” who spent several years there. As a result, I have a Korean aunt :-) And you’re right ... FReepers are the greatest!
“...under the United Nations Command...”
There was no UN military command. The UN command was all political. The military command was all USA. I was there 65 years ago. It was not called a war, but it was a hard fought, deadly war. We took huge numbers of casualties right up until the day of the cease fire. The two primary countries engaged were the USA and South Korea. And believe me, the South Koreans were, and are great soldiers. There were others but they were in much smaller numbers, the sum total of all the others was regimental or brigade size. There were Brits, Aussies, Canadians, French, Turks and some others. An interesting feature, I thought, was that the South Korean government placed their entire military force under direct control of the United States commanders.
It still is, to this day. The United Nations/USFK/8th Army/CFC commander is, and always has been, an American Army general, since General of the Army McArthur held that position.
Interesting! Probably December, 1952, or January, 1953 I had a seven man ROK squad assigned to my artillery battery to integrate them into the American way of soldiering. Other units receiving them used them as gophers and general janitorial work. I actually interspersed them with my crews so as to learn, and they did. They also fell in love with American food. I thought the command structure would change after the cease fire and the ROK divisions would fall under control of their own government. Thanks for the info!
They’ll be draped in American flags when they arrive in Hawaii. You’ll feel better then.
Most of those soldiers were fighting for the U.S., not the U.N..”
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They WERE fighting for the U.N.!!!
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1960 isn't 1950. I'm not at all fond of the UN (I think the US should get out of it and require the relocation of UN headquarters to someplace like Geneva), but denying that the US troops fought under the UN flag is on the same level as destroying Confederate monuments.......it is history...stop trying to destroy it.
Are you sure that they are all US remains?
“..but denying that the US troops fought under the UN flag...”
You need to worry about your reading comprehension. I did not deny that they fought under the UN flag, I have always been aware that they fought under the UN flag, and I have always thought it was worse than stupid to make them fight under the UN flag.
And I have heard veterans of that war complain about it.
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