Posted on 08/18/2009 8:15:55 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Ping!
I got to see the axe that was used. It is in a glass display case at the Osan airbase.
If you read to the bottom, you will find how the ‘Mad Monks’ got payback for this atrocity.
http://merrymadmonk.blogspot.com/2004/12/merry-mad-monks-of-dmz.html
Thirty-threeth?
I hate it when the grammar police show up, but this was rather humorous to me for some reason...
Yes, I was at Kunsan Airbase, Korea at the time. The base became a tent city as Pres. Ford sent extra troops as a show of force. And the sky was just full of aircraft. The base had F-4s and whatever that old jet was that the ROK Air Force was still flying at the time (F-86 ???).
There were a lot of Korean civilians that would talk to us after about 10 days, and said they would not have minded marching into the North. I remember that in the first 10 days or so, it was as if the civilian population went completely mute. They were afraid to talk much for fear of being accused of one thing or another.
I think in the 1970s there was still a general feeling in the populace of being “perpetually” at war. I don’t know if that still prevails to any degree. I haven’t been in Korea for many years now.
Its nice to know the coward who ordered the murders got his, but not enough of these cockroaches died for their crime, IMO.
Fascinating. A whole different world...
“I read that they had a plan to push 60 miles into the North and liberate the SW region of N. Korea. N. Korea was scared to death, it has been learned later.”
I had just gotten married that month of May, and my young bride was really shaken by the possiblity of it really blowing up over there.
Wow! Talking about this has really brought in a flood of memories rushing over me.
BTTT
One tactic I used was have them read road signs (we live rural) as I drove past.
My favorite is the one my son at three or four told me for rt. 221 ....
"What's THAT number?"
"Two Tooty One"
He's 16 now and we still say and chuckle over two tooty one.
LOL
I was at Taegu (K2) and actually scheduled to visit the DMZ the day of the attack. I was lucky enuf to miss the event.
Lots of folks figgured it was the start of The Korean War - Part II.
Me? I believed Gen Stillwell.
We have some community here of 1970s Korea service veterans, evidently. My own dad was an infantryman in Korea in 1950, 51. I served 13 months in the US Air Force there (Kunsan), 1975, 76.
It seems whenever I took the bus to Seoul, I had to go through Taegu, or do I have it mixed up with another town. There was also a Kwangju.
Taegu (Daegu) is on the hiway, so you likely passed thu town.
Me? Since I waas in the USAF insisted that I fly - at least for official stuff.
I flew from Osan to Kunsan on a C-141 when I first arrived in country in 1975. Only jump seats, no sound insulation (obviously), had to stick those wax plugs in my ears. That was enough flying on USAF aircraft for me. Ha!
I was also USAF, but never had any official reasons to fly around in country.
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