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<blockquote data-quote="Cohiba" data-source="post: 2344827" data-attributes="member: 2550"><p>Wouldn't surprise me if they trick him or brainwash him into saying anti-America statements, signing crazy documents stating he was involved with torture, brainwashing, executing, North Koreans or having him state in front of cameras that he is a spy for the U.S. and South Korea. Easy to brainwash or fool the elderly.</p><p></p><p>My father was in the Korean war..not conflict..but war. He refused to say conflict and always emphasized war.</p><p></p><p>He earned a few medals from that war and was wounded there. He very rarely spoke of the war, even as a 23-24 year old marine returning to America..he sold all of his uniforms, jackets, and gave his medals away to some neighborhood kids....years beofre I was born. I guess when your done, your done.</p><p></p><p> He would never tell me anything about Korea...one on one...just that he was a Hollywood Marine and that if I join the service..join the Coast Guard or Air Force..they eat better and are treated better. He only spoke of Korea with other veterans. How it was cold as h#ll in the winter and hot as h#ll in the summer. The battleship Missouri (?) was called to help "control" a town..I guess they shelled the heck out of it.</p><p></p><p>He spoke of the ringing in his ears when (they walked behind a tank or used it for protection) the tank fired it's shells.</p><p>Then he would sometimes speak of the North Koreans and Communist Chinese either blowing a bugle or whistle and the enemy looking like ants swarming down a hill at them...and how his M1 Carbine or Thompson barrel would be red hot.</p><p></p><p>He could still flip an M1 Carbine until he was to weak to walk and use his arms from old age.</p><p></p><p>Bottom line..he never, ever, wanted to revisit Korea. I truly think if he was offered to go all expenses paid..to South Korea he would say.."Hell No"!! He would say he lost to much and could never get it back..so why go? He remembered and hadn't forgot..so, never returning ...period.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cohiba, post: 2344827, member: 2550"] Wouldn't surprise me if they trick him or brainwash him into saying anti-America statements, signing crazy documents stating he was involved with torture, brainwashing, executing, North Koreans or having him state in front of cameras that he is a spy for the U.S. and South Korea. Easy to brainwash or fool the elderly. My father was in the Korean war..not conflict..but war. He refused to say conflict and always emphasized war. He earned a few medals from that war and was wounded there. He very rarely spoke of the war, even as a 23-24 year old marine returning to America..he sold all of his uniforms, jackets, and gave his medals away to some neighborhood kids....years beofre I was born. I guess when your done, your done. He would never tell me anything about Korea...one on one...just that he was a Hollywood Marine and that if I join the service..join the Coast Guard or Air Force..they eat better and are treated better. He only spoke of Korea with other veterans. How it was cold as h#ll in the winter and hot as h#ll in the summer. The battleship Missouri (?) was called to help "control" a town..I guess they shelled the heck out of it. He spoke of the ringing in his ears when (they walked behind a tank or used it for protection) the tank fired it's shells. Then he would sometimes speak of the North Koreans and Communist Chinese either blowing a bugle or whistle and the enemy looking like ants swarming down a hill at them...and how his M1 Carbine or Thompson barrel would be red hot. He could still flip an M1 Carbine until he was to weak to walk and use his arms from old age. Bottom line..he never, ever, wanted to revisit Korea. I truly think if he was offered to go all expenses paid..to South Korea he would say.."Hell No"!! He would say he lost to much and could never get it back..so why go? He remembered and hadn't forgot..so, never returning ...period. [/QUOTE]
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