***And 30,000 troops died in Korea during 2 1/2 years while Truman was president. That's 10 times as many as have died in Iraq under Bush.
34,000 Americans gave their lives for Korean freedom.***
Now THERE'S a good post we don't usually see. Thanks for the information.
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Here's something else most people don't realize happened, almost exactly 56 years ago.
Full Wartime Censorship Placed on Korean War News
Waterloo Daily Courier, front page | January 9, 1951 | UP
U. S. Eighth Army headquarters, Korea. –(UP) –
The US.Eighth Army imposed full wartime censorship on news coverage of the Korean War Tuesday and threatened to courtmartial newsmen who deliberately report any troop movements without authorization. [snip][more about the censorship rules at the FR link at the head of this article]The rules placed correspondents under the complete jusrisdiction of the army and forbade any criticism of the Allied conduct of the war.
The regulations, succeeding the present security censorship, provide that all dispatches filed to publications throughout the world will be screened for military information which might injure the morale of UN troops or their government.