Word: inchon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Nam War. But South Korea's war revenues fell by more than 10% in 1970. In addition, the U.S. is bringing home nearly a third of the 64,000 troops stationed in South Korea. The effect can already be seen in microcosm in the town of Inchon. When the U.S.'s Camp Kaiser closed down there in November, 10,000 shopkeepers, taxi drivers and prostitutes were deprived of their prime source of income...
...sully the reputation or sap the nerve of Americans still risking their lives in the paddies and jungles. There may also be at work an edge of guilt or battle wisdom in U.S. attitudes. There are, after all, millions of adult Americans who have fought from the Argonne to Inchon and carry their own private knowledge of the necessities -and the better-forgotten brutalities -of personal combat. It would be reassuring to think that these explanations encompass the opinions of those who appear to dismiss My Lai; the alternative is to contemplate an American adaptability carried to the point...