Yesterday's Weapons Forums

That's a great question, Don. Last year I read an excellent book on the Marine withdrawl from Chosin. It was stirring to read the extent of the brutal conditions those men suffered thru, both from the weather and the enemy.
That saga should rank right there with Iwo, Tarawa or any other campaign but seems to have never gained the full stature to which it is most certainly entitled.
Could it be as simple that Korea was never declared a 'war' ..and that we didn't achieve a WWII-like decisive and full victory? I wonder sometimes.
JohnB/

i really feel its because we had 'just' come out of the biggest war in history and everyone wanted to play this down as a police action , i dont think the public wanted to realise how deeply it cost us ,
and today i think its been so successfuly kept in obscurity and overshadowed by veit nam that it remains there ,

i was only made aware of its magnitude when mash was released , prior to that id had little to no input even with an uncle who served in that war , im with you that it needs recognition ,