Title should have read Korea 1951-1952
Touching post. Thanks for sharing it. I’ve been stationed in Korea twice, not long ago. Thanks for your family’s great support. God bless you all.
A dear friend of mine served in Vietnam. He fell from shrapnel to the head.
He survived only to commit suiucide later in his life. He was hunted by the memory of 3 Medics that were killed trying to save him . He said he was lying there and could not move but had to watch the horror of it.
Rest in peace soldier.
Great story.
My Dad used to wake up in the middle of the night looking for his carbine because the Chinese were in the trenches.
I was born in 1950. My dad, a Navy doc was just recalled just before my birth and after WW2 now sent to Korea. Chosin was one of his first field hospitals. All he’d say about time there - “It was cold”
Recently it dawned on me that most the dads and uncles i knew growing up were vets of WW2 or Korea. They were shop keepers, carpenters, loggers, doctors, dads.
And its now I appreciate that most, if not all, were likely carrying serious baggage from those days. But somehow carried on. Things buried.
Dad made it to 89. Dementia set in at the end. He started to speak of Korea and how he kept his hands warm in surgery. It was cold.
Don’t just thank a vet only today of all days. Give them a God damn big hug. “Thank you for your service” does not even start to thank them for what veterans have done for us.
Your Dad most assuredly qualifies as “The Greatest Generation”. But then,I’ll bet you already knew that!
RIP, George. Thank you for your service.
Sergeant Majors run the show , during my active duty in the U.S. Army I also was a combat medic. My contract ran from 1985-1993 , I chose not to do 20 plus years to garner a retirement as I saw what they were doing to guys getting near retirement and penalizing them lowering $ for whatever reason they could. My logic was if they are doing this to persons that had seen many live fire event’s ...well I did not want to hang with clowns that are bean counter’s and would defecate on those that endured the nasty work of war. Not a big fan of the officer class. From my experience with the guys before me they didn’t talk much about what they saw.