My husband spent 3 years in Korea in the worst of it. He would not tell me how he got a 2 inch scar on his knee, when we were first married. He spoke some times about the 300,000 Chinese troops they had to face. My husband was 1/16th Cree Indian and from my mother’s Prussian ancestry I have some Asian in my heredity, so my older son has a dark and slightly swarthy look. When our son was a young teen my husband came home one day and was very upset (I think he had some friends recovering from their Vietnam experiences at that time), and started to cry “I killed somebody’s son.” He was deeply upset and I realized that scar on his knee was from hand to hand combat, and a lot of those Chinese soldiers were quite young. He was not dealing with infiltrators, but rather massive attacks of Chinese soldiers at least on this occasion. Of course he also fought North Koreans. He would sometimes talk about what great fighters the Turkish soldiers were who were taking part in this Police Action. So many people in pain, pain that will go on and on, for one man’s (and his “Brain’s”) dream of power and glory right now.
Thank you for sharing your story.