I mean, at least his grandchildren can enjoy silly animated shows, Samsung phones and Hyundai cars.
And spicy noodle.
RecentlyDeceased666 on
Most 17 year olds wanted to go to war. Many lied about their age
andtheman3 on
My grandpa exactly. He didn’t talk much about the war until the end. He was a lifelong alcoholic afterwards, and got almost violently mad when people didn’t finish food on their plates.
In Korea they didn’t have great logistics, even during the retreat from the Chinese boarder so his company was always out of food. Apparently they broke into peasant ‘rice shacks’ to steal food to survive.
Towards the end of life he always talked to dad about how the faces of the dead soldiers he had to kill haunted him and how their regard for their own lives is what bothered him the most. That and his guilt about surviving it all.
Rip grandpa
Darth_Bane_1032 on
This was my great grandpa, except he voluntarily joined the marines in 1948.
Ok_Entertainment3626 on
We need sweaters urgently and we need a lot !!!
999BusinessCard on
I was in the Korean War. Of course this was in 2009 so I mostly drank soju and hid from the courtesy patrol. Can’t believe I’m eligible to join the VFW for that.
DarthKirtap on
Korean war affected only small part of those 17 years old
NlghtmanCometh on
I’ve actually read that a large % of Korean War participants were entirely green men. Obviously nearly the entirety of our officer corps had fought in WW2, (some even WW1) but the majority of the enlisted men had never seen combat. For those who fought in both wars, many would say the Korean War combat was actually more harrowing.
MiniatureLegionary on
And somehow Korea was spicier than in Europe and islets of Japan
hambourgeoi on
In France we had like 3 wars after WW2. First Indochina, then Korea and at the same time, Algeria. We won militarily but lost politically in Algeria and participated in the Busan landing but lost Indochina.
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I mean, at least his grandchildren can enjoy silly animated shows, Samsung phones and Hyundai cars.
And spicy noodle.
Most 17 year olds wanted to go to war. Many lied about their age
My grandpa exactly. He didn’t talk much about the war until the end. He was a lifelong alcoholic afterwards, and got almost violently mad when people didn’t finish food on their plates.
In Korea they didn’t have great logistics, even during the retreat from the Chinese boarder so his company was always out of food. Apparently they broke into peasant ‘rice shacks’ to steal food to survive.
Towards the end of life he always talked to dad about how the faces of the dead soldiers he had to kill haunted him and how their regard for their own lives is what bothered him the most. That and his guilt about surviving it all.
Rip grandpa
This was my great grandpa, except he voluntarily joined the marines in 1948.
We need sweaters urgently and we need a lot !!!
I was in the Korean War. Of course this was in 2009 so I mostly drank soju and hid from the courtesy patrol. Can’t believe I’m eligible to join the VFW for that.
Korean war affected only small part of those 17 years old
I’ve actually read that a large % of Korean War participants were entirely green men. Obviously nearly the entirety of our officer corps had fought in WW2, (some even WW1) but the majority of the enlisted men had never seen combat. For those who fought in both wars, many would say the Korean War combat was actually more harrowing.
And somehow Korea was spicier than in Europe and islets of Japan
In France we had like 3 wars after WW2. First Indochina, then Korea and at the same time, Algeria. We won militarily but lost politically in Algeria and participated in the Busan landing but lost Indochina.