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Offline Killer Canary

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« on: May 06, 2018, 07:10:48 AM »
I've just finished the 2 hour doc on Netflix.
I had no idea that Korea had such severe winters, surrounded by the Pacific and all.
Some of the B&Ws of the carnage looked like they could've been shot in Stalingrad.
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Re: Chosin
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2018, 06:14:05 PM »
Korea was a hell of a war... 98% of the soldiers that returned, never talked about what went on, and those that did, told of a horror that couldn't be absorbed by the human mind. If you ask a Korean War vet about it (you can still find a few alive) they probably won't talk much about it...
The cold was really bad, but it stopped the piles of bodies from decomposing, and they stacked up like cord wood. I can't imagine what those vets went through.
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Re: Chosin
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2018, 04:16:49 PM »
Did they talk about Kapyong ?
Bill the demon ?
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Re: Chosin
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2018, 04:21:03 PM »
Hello Bill,
Kapyong was only referenced in passing.
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Re: Chosin
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2018, 03:46:37 AM »
The reason I asked was because we had a couple of "Pat's" in our squadron that had been through Korea.
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Re: Chosin
« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2018, 04:27:08 AM »
IMHO the DC memorial for Korean war is the most impressive.

Yeah, it was a brutal war to stop communism from expanding.  My country participated on the red side.

http://www.kilroywashere.org/005-Pages/Czechoslovakia/Czechoslovakia-KoreanWar.htm
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Re: Chosin
« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2018, 05:04:07 AM »
My dad's youngest brother was a POW in Korea.  Made it back, but died at an early age. RIP Uncle Leslie.
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