[LadyX]

Thank you.
My husband served there also, and after fighting the length of Korea from Pusan to Seoul, their Marine Corps positions overrun at night by thousands of drugged up, bugle blaring Chinese (one night he survived by 'playing possum' in the frozen mud as he was stabbed 3 times on his trunk with a bayonet); was captured near Seoul - escaped and captured again - and spent terrible time in North Korea as a POW.

We still weep watching that old movie with the POWs walking back over the bridge at the 38th Parallel when the truce was declared...he was one of those boys...

It was more than 20 years before he could speak openly of all that, but he had overcome it, and served a year in Southeast Asia in '67-'68 fighting communists all over Vietnam and Thailand (even once for 3 days dropped in the jungle with his Strike Team in North Vietnam looking for a downed F-111), including the Tet Offensive and Da Nang.

[Just mythoughts]

Typing through tears I am humbled and honored to receive your message. There has to be a very special reward for those who endured Stalin's last blood letting.

[Pippin]

Thank both you and your husband for all your service to our country!

[OESY]

Your post speaks of the terrible sacrifices made by those brave souls who survived the Korean War, and by those who didn't. Many of us will never know the hardships that some of our best people experienced first hand in the several wars this country has fought.

Although a Vietnam era vet, I never saw combat, but as an infantry company commander and battalion executive officer, I oversaw the training of many young men who were called. I can only look back and hope that I did my job well--for the sake of the men who went.

Those who have fought honor themselves and this nation. It is not too much to ask that we honor them by remembering what they did and by expressing our sincere gratitude.