[SaveFerris]

My father (RIP) landed at Inchon. He made it back. A few guys from his hometown didn’t.

[2banana]

Wars have been and will be very bloody affairs...

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“They lost 600 and something people in one night….the Chinese came in around them, surrounded them and just overran the battalion headquarters,” Charles said.”

[Fido969]

Welcome home, soldier.

[PGR88]

Kim Jong Un fulfilled an agreement he made with President Trump at the Singapore summit in June to return 55 boxes of remains of Americans killed in the Korean War

If and when we ever cease to demand that all our dead and missing be brought home, we will then cease to be a great nation.

[adorno]

The headline led me to believe that, the son got a surprise call from his father. Father would have been in his late 80s or 90s.

Imagine if it had turned out to be like that.

Son would have said: “what took you so long?”

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Thanks for posting this!
Welcome home!
Canteen PING!

[Sequoyah101]

The dog tags hold up. After WWI they began to be made from Monel. Don’t know if they still are though.

Monel is non-magnetic and a naturally occurring alloy that is heat resistant of course but also corrosion resistant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monel#Other

[OrioleFan]

There’s a guy in the senior center band I play in. He was a tank commander in Korea. He has Alzheimer’s, so he tells the same story over and over. He has this harmonica, he plays, and it’s the same one he had in Korea. He told us as long as he was playing the harmonica on a hill named Old Baldy, the Chinese snipers wouldn’t shoot at his tank, and he could stick his head out of the turret. But if he wasn’t playing, he didn’t dare pop up for a look-see, cause he would hear the plink-plink off the tank when they shot at him.

[robowombat]

My cousin was in C/1st Bn/7th Cav. He was listed as KIA 4 Dec 1950 during the Chinese massive counter offensive. His body was not recovered . A lot of questions about the circumstances of his death were never answered. Anyone in that unit at the time I would very much like to correspond with.

[Maudeen]

Both of my folks served in WWII. It is sickening what this country has become. Many. . .too many. . . today have no idea the sacrifices that have been made. I’m substitute teaching. . .definitely a shortage of not only subs but teachers. Many if not most of the students have no idea why they are saying a pledge to the flag. . .some of which need to be replaced . . .worn and dirty. The flag outside the building is tattered and not because of the reenactment of the Star Spangled Banner. We are working on making replacements.

[polymuser]

God please bless our vets, here and gone.
God please help America, we’re wounded.