No Gun Ri A Military History of the Korean War By Robert L. Bateman Stackpole Books 288 pgs. $22.95 ISBN: 0-8117-1763-1 Correcting a miscarriage of reportingBy Steven Martinovichweb posted July 8, 2002In September 1999 an explosive Associated Press story broke which alleged that beginning on July 26, 1950, soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Calvary Regiment slaughtered hundreds of South Korean civilians beneath a railway trestle near a village called No Gun Ri. According to AP, the story was buried for decades until survivors and some soldiers began speaking out about the horrors they lived through.It's not the first time...
