The article does not tell the whole story. Corporal Reeve was 18 years old, on patrol when he was captured along with 18 other American soldiers. Two weeks later, the North Koreans took him and up to nine others into a field and shot them in cold blood. It is hard to imagine the fear in an 18 year old, my youngest is now 19, as he faced the guns of the Communists knowing death was coming.
That is what communists do.
In every country.
Yes, it is hard to imagine.
I remember my grandmother (may she RIP) reminising about her brother, the youngest child of 7 and the only son, who died at the Battle of the Bulge, at age 19. Corp. Reeve’s story makes me think of him, and of all those young men, from all those wars, who paid that ultimate sacrifice. And I can’t help it, but it just makes me sick to see what’s happening now, how this country (or at least those “in charge”) keep spitting and spitting and spitting on those sacrifices.
Which is why MacArthur right—we sould have nuked the bastards.
Which is why MacArthur right—we sould have nuked the bastards.
Did the N.K. ever take POWs?
Did the N.K. ever take POWs? That lived to tell about it?