Posted on 04/07/2016 9:41:26 AM PDT by Morgana
FOLLANSBEE, W.Va. -
It has been 66 years since Roy Henderson has been on American soil. We live in an unrecognizable United States to the one the private first class left, but he has never been forgotten. And he has finally been welcomed home to the Ohio Valley after going being killing in action, declared MIA in July of 1950.
"It's closure for the family, and not only for the family, but for the veterans who fight on a daily basis," said casualty assistance officer SFC Bradley Maston. "We want to see our brothers and sisters come back home and be where they belong."
Passengers crowded the small windows of the Delta flight coming in from Atlanta. It was the last leg of the Army veteran's long journey from Korea, Japan, Honolulu, then, back to the mainland United States. His final resting place, Follansbee, WV, where his body was met by dozens of volunteers and well wishers.
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We must not forget the sacrifices these men made. Rest in peace back home.
He was found in South Korea ?
Korea, Vietnam, almost 100,000 dead, millions of wounded, for what???
Quite possible as the Korean War was fought all up and down the Korean peninsula.
So that you can speak English instead of Russian or Chinese.
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How could the Koreans or Vietnamese invade?
I was thinking it but you said it.
I wonder if he was one of the POWs that the communists routinely murdered during most of that UN police action.
For what?
Here’s the “what”: Korea to an extent, and Vietnam to the extreme, taught EVERYONE who was paying any attention at all that going to war is either an all-or-nothing commitment, or an unqualified disaster. You DO IT, or you DON’T. There can be NO half measures.
Our failure to COMMIT in Asia, and the resultant stupidity of sending guys in there anyway — those events taught every politically astute person of any intellectual capacity worth noting that NOBODY ought to EVER lend the left an ear when armed conflict is on the table. Or anything else, for that matter, but certainly when war is in the balance.
Hell, we’d have mopped up in BOTH of those places had we just got solid commitment to get in, get DONE, and get out. Top brass in North Vietnam admitted years afterward that the Tet Offensive was their last hurrah. Had we stuck in there after that assault we’d have broken their back; they had nothing left to throw at us after that. But, NOOOooooo, we had a steaming pantload of handwringing domestic leftist pukes we thought we had to listen to and appease. And we did. And we left. And we lost; allowing our own cabal of aggrieved leftists to make the call to throw victory into the jaws of defeat.
Stupid. STUPID. STUPID! *STUPID*!!!
But for the American political left, we’d have STAYED in Vietnam past Tet, we’d have discovered then what we only learned many moons afterward; we’d have succeeded instead of failing, and the lives we lost over there would have been worth losing, because we’d have WON, and a whole nation of people would be FREE, today.
BUT FOR THE DAMNABLE AMERICAN LEFT...
...AND those on the right who listened to them.
Fear not, though. Fear not.
EVERYONE responsible WILL get their due; their just reward awaits. There IS an eternal flaming Hell, and EVERY corner of it is PLENTY hot enough.
Making world conquest expensive and impractical for the Soviet Union. It was hell, but it worked.
We bottled them up till Reagan gave them the coup de grace by turbo-charging the arms race--and they imploded.
It's Islam's turn.
It would seem unlikely that China would have invaded the US or even Russia. They both were going through internal turmoil at the time.
Until about 15 years ago, whenever NK wanted a bailout or food gift, a “discovery” of an American MIA would be offered up as a good faith move.
A high ranking NK defector testified the North had gathered and stored remains from the war and would announce a discovery whenever they wanted or needed something.
I guess they’ve exhausted their stash.
“Korea, Vietnam, almost 100,000 dead, millions of wounded, for what?”
Did you see the first Austin Powers movie? Remember that when they told the reawakened Powers that the Cold War was over, he immediately assumed that the Communists had won?
Perhaps it was an accidental swerve into the truth, but it was profound. A large majority of the human race assumed, right up until Reagan won it, that the Communists would win the Cold War. Perhaps this was because they were willing to do anything to win, and we weren’t. Ronaldus Magnus found a way to win that didn’t involve crimes against humanity, but that outcome was by no means guaranteed.
The Soviets were never a first-world country. They were a third-world country with first-world weapons. The Supreme Soviet kept their entire country in grinding poverty so they could use that money in the quest for (danger music) world conquest.
Yep, just like in the movies, they were out to conquer the world. They were doing a pretty good job, too. A lot of the horrible things we see in our country today are the results of Soviet programs begun during the cold war.
Evil should never be allowed to masquerade as a “responsible opposing viewpoint” to good, in any of its manifestations. However, that was what the useful idiots demanded, and the anti-anti-communists had rendered risible the suggestion that the Soviets were evil: until Reagan.
What, you dare ask, were the Korean and Viet Nam wars for? I’ll give you two things right off the top of my head. The first is that these wars were pushback against Soviet conquest. Soviet analysts have said that the Viet Nam war pushed the collapse of the Evil Empire forward by at least ten years.
The second is a more abstract reason: generally speaking, opposing evil is the right thing to do. If the communists had taken over South Korea, the bloodbath would have been unimaginable. When Ted Kennedy and other traitors in America threw the South Vietnamese to the wolves, the bloodbath was bad enough that even Joan Baez (Al Capp’s Joanie Phony) reversed herself.
I certainly hope that, even today, no one is naïve enough to think that the Soviets would have stopped with the rest of Korea and the rest of Viet Nam. We fought there because that’s where evil was attacking. By doing so, we prevented untold evils from befalling mankind.
The Vietnam War is more widely misunderstood now than ever before, because of the determined efforts of leftards to deceive humanity. Don’t be one of the deceived.
Perhaps what I have said will not prevent you from repeating this lie. On the other hand, perhaps it will immunize someone against that particular piece of propaganda.
Good post.
I’ve heard “rumor” that there were American MIA’s living in Russia back in the ‘90’s. Many were supposedly integrated and decided to stay since they were convinced their country had pretty much abandoned them.
But I haven’t been able to verify that.
I miss Al Capp.
“I miss Al Capp.”
Good is better than evil because it’s nicer.
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