June 25, 1950

[bradygirl_12]

Sixty-two years ago today, the Korean War began.

Please take the time to remember the soldiers who fought and died

And the veterans who are elderly now and still suffering.

Please remember the Koreans who suffered during the war

And the families still torn apart after all these decades.

Don't forget the Forgotten War.

 


 

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[northernwalker]

*hugs*

[bradygirl_12]

*hugs*

*hugs you back hard*

[tafizgurl.livejournal.com]

My father served in the US Navy during the Korean War. I recently requested his paperwork from the military archives and found out several things I didn't know about him, like where he was working prior to enlisting (he was a high school principal in a tiny little school in back-of-beyond Alabama). The war was over before he and Mom married (Dec. 1953), but he was still stationed in Boston. She used to tell me stories about the culture shock of going from Alabama to Boston -- said people would make her repeat things just to hear her accent.

Dad's been gone sixteen years now, and it still seems like yesterday.

[bradygirl_12]

My dad was in the Army and on the front lines. He spent some time in a M.A.S.H. unit and liked to watch the show and say, "Yeah, that got that right" or "They got that wrong." ;)

I've been looking through his discharge papers, too. My sister and I want to apply for an official Government plaque for his grave. He was in the Reserves until the early '60s. We were very lucky that a trained combat infantryman (later trained paratrooper) wasn't called up in those early days, but if he had still been in the Reserves by '65, he might have been as the numbers of U.S. military in Vietnam took a huge spike that year.

Heh, we get the opposite when we travel in the South. My family have the typical New England accent. ;)

Yesterday was Dad's birthday. I think of him and Mom a lot.

[tafizgurl.livejournal.com]

My dad was in the Naval Reserves until some time in the early 80's, I think, but he would have been too old to be called up for Vietnam (he was 41 in 1965). He also served with the Marines in WWII. My uncle, OTOH, did the Vietnam thing (Army).

Dad's birthday is International Talk LIke a Pirate Day. I think it would have amused him.

[bradygirl_12]

Yeah, my dad joined the Army when he was 17 and was in Korea at 18. He was the youngest First Sergeant in Korea! I have the clipping from Stars 'N' Stripes that his mom saved. :)

So Dad would have been at a good age to get the call-up, though he was married by then and with two kids.

My dad's birthday is Jean de Baptiste Day in Montreal. :)