[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for this great history lesson that most of us know little about.

I have a friend who went ashore in this invasion as a Navy Corpman assigned to a Marine invasion group. He stayed with the Marines until his service time was up. He, also, served during the ChiCom invasion where our Marines were caught by the hordes of ChiComs and the terrible cold in the N. Korea penisula.

He was one very lucky man. He survived all of this with only a few minor events that got him a couple of Purple Hearts. He came home, finished college, married his high school sweetheart. They had 5 children and a flock of grand kids.

The company that both of us worked for had several combat tested Marines who worked with us. They loved to taunt and kid us sailors with loveble nicknames that included being related to Squids and other nice comparisons. When they found out this gentlemen's back ground, the kidding became reverence and awe.

[SAMWolf]

You're welcome.

When the Korean War vets claim theier was "The Forgotten War" they aren't kidding. It's barely mentioned in the schools books.

[MistyCA]

My father in law never spoke about the service time he did in Korea. But you could see it. He had frequent erupting sores visible on his neck from schrapnel that was still embedded when he died a few years ago. Most people never knew it was schrapnel causing the problems he had since he never complained.