FOOD FOR THOUGHT!
I DON'T KNOW HOW THE Navy picks its men to be FMF Corpsmen, but they are a special bunch of brave men. Lee Ballenger's "The Final Crucible" U. S. Marines In Korea, Vol. 2: 1953
Each face will lose its name and time will not defer. But the bond will not be broken between who we are and what we were. Anonymous32
Infantry is the arm, which in the end wins battles. The riffle and the bayonet are the infantryman's Chief weapon. Brist Army Field Service Regulations, 1924
It was the Chinese that first developed the Mortar! These weapons have no conscience when fired in a battle!
The U. S. Marines were organized and trained as light infantry to hit hard and to maneuver swiftly. The idea of digging in and fighting defensively for any great length of time was foreign to Marine Thinking and training. Siege warfare was the antithesis of Marine Corps Philosophy. Creation of military stalemate during the last half of the Korean War, however, improvise, to create tactics, and to improve methods with which they had had little experience. Outpost warfare was not a planned tactic; it just evolved, lubricated by the blood of some thirteen thousand young men. U. S. Marines In Korea, Vol. 1: 1952 by Lee Ballenger
"I now know why men who have been to war yearn to reunite. Not to tell stories or look at old pictures.
I DON'T KNOW HOW THE Navy picks its men to be FMF Corpsmen, but they are a special bunch of brave men. Lee Ballenger's "The Final Crucible" U. S. Marines In Korea, Vol. 2: 1953
Each face will lose its name and time will not defer. But the bond will not be broken between who we are and what we were. Anonymous32
Infantry is the arm, which in the end wins battles. The riffle and the bayonet are the infantryman's Chief weapon. Brist Army Field Service Regulations, 1924
It was the Chinese that first developed the Mortar! These weapons have no conscience when fired in a battle!
The U. S. Marines were organized and trained as light infantry to hit hard and to maneuver swiftly. The idea of digging in and fighting defensively for any great length of time was foreign to Marine Thinking and training. Siege warfare was the antithesis of Marine Corps Philosophy. Creation of military stalemate during the last half of the Korean War, however, improvise, to create tactics, and to improve methods with which they had had little experience. Outpost warfare was not a planned tactic; it just evolved, lubricated by the blood of some thirteen thousand young men. U. S. Marines In Korea, Vol. 1: 1952 by Lee Ballenger
"I now know why men who have been to war yearn to reunite. Not to tell stories or look at old pictures.
Not to laugh or weep. Comrades gather because they long to be with the men who once acted at their best; men who suffered and sacrificed, who were stripped of their humanity. I did not pick these men. They were delivered by fate and the military. But I know them in a way I know no other men. I have never given anyone such trust. They were willing to guard something more precious than my life. They would have carried my reputation, the memory of me. It was part of the bargain we all made, the reason we were so willing to die for one another. As long as I have memory, I will think of them all, every day. I am sure that when I leave this world, my last thought will be of my family and my comrades... Such good men." --Author Unknown--
UNITED NATIONS MEMORIAL WALL
The United Nations Memorial Wall can be found in the UN Memorial Cemetery, Daeyon-4dong, Nam-gu, Busan Metropolitan City, Korea. It is a little known memo-rial and work of art measuring two meters high by approximately 150 meters in length (one and one-half football fields) that contains the names of 40,895 allied servicemen who lost their lives on United Nations service during the Korean War. It is so little known that a search of the U.S. Internet to gather data to assist in writing this article revealed no information on it. In length it is larger in size than the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC which contains the names of 58,253 personnel who fell in service during the Vietnam War. The Memorial Wall was dedicated with virtually no fanfare or publicity on
UNITED NATIONS MEMORIAL WALL
The United Nations Memorial Wall can be found in the UN Memorial Cemetery, Daeyon-4dong, Nam-gu, Busan Metropolitan City, Korea. It is a little known memo-rial and work of art measuring two meters high by approximately 150 meters in length (one and one-half football fields) that contains the names of 40,895 allied servicemen who lost their lives on United Nations service during the Korean War. It is so little known that a search of the U.S. Internet to gather data to assist in writing this article revealed no information on it. In length it is larger in size than the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC which contains the names of 58,253 personnel who fell in service during the Vietnam War. The Memorial Wall was dedicated with virtually no fanfare or publicity on
24 OCT 06, marking the 61st anniversary of the 1945 founding of the United Nations.
The UN Memorial Cemetery Commission overseas the cemetery and is comprised of the Ambass-adors (or their representatives) of the countries of the interred servicemen. The cemetery occupies 14.7 hectare of land donated by the Korean government
It became a burial ground in APR 51 following relocation of the graves by the UN Forces Command in Korea, which began in January of the same year, from six temporary graveyards scattered around the nation. These were mainly in the areas of Kaeseong, Incheon, Daejeon, Daegu, Milyang, and Masan. Although there had been about 11,000 of the UN's fallen braves interred at the cemetery in the years from 1951 to 1954, there now rest only 2,300 since Belgium, Colombia, Ethiopia, Greece, Philippines, and Thailand brought their fallen warriors back home. The US also took back most of theirs and France and Norway transferred some of theirs back home. Currently interred are 281 Australians, 378 Canadians, 44 French, 117 Dutch, 34 New Zealanders, 1 Norwegian, 36 Koreans, 11 South Africans, 462 Turkish, 885 British, 36 Americans, 4 unknown, and 11 non-combatants. [Source: Korea Vet News (Canada) 11 Feb 07]
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It became a burial ground in APR 51 following relocation of the graves by the UN Forces Command in Korea, which began in January of the same year, from six temporary graveyards scattered around the nation. These were mainly in the areas of Kaeseong, Incheon, Daejeon, Daegu, Milyang, and Masan. Although there had been about 11,000 of the UN's fallen braves interred at the cemetery in the years from 1951 to 1954, there now rest only 2,300 since Belgium, Colombia, Ethiopia, Greece, Philippines, and Thailand brought their fallen warriors back home. The US also took back most of theirs and France and Norway transferred some of theirs back home. Currently interred are 281 Australians, 378 Canadians, 44 French, 117 Dutch, 34 New Zealanders, 1 Norwegian, 36 Koreans, 11 South Africans, 462 Turkish, 885 British, 36 Americans, 4 unknown, and 11 non-combatants. [Source: Korea Vet News (Canada) 11 Feb 07]
REMEMBER DUES FOR 2005, 2006, AND 2007, SHOULD BE PAID IN ORDER TO BE AN ACTIVE MEMBER. DUES COLLECTED PAY FOR OUR NEWSLETTERS AND ADMIN- ISTRATION EXPENSES. THANKS - SHIFTY