Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...True, units of militiamen failed on the field of battle time after time in the War of 1812; and in the Civil War, the militia often simply walked away, ignoring the orders of their officers. But there has been heroism as well. In both World War II and the Korean conflict, divisions of the National Guard-the latter-day militia-performed admirably. Peacetime Guardsmen have served loyally to restore order after countless hurricanes, floods, riots and other internal disturbances...
...KOREAN WAR by Matthew B. Ridgway. 291 pages. Doub/eday...
...Your POW camp training article [Sept. 1] revived memories of similar well-meaning efforts during and after the Korean War. Hardly a base, post or station was without its "torture and brainwash" school. All carried on with the best of intentions, of course. However, when all the evidence was in as to what actually went on in the POW camps of North Korea, it transpired that extremes of physical violence were the exceptions rather than the rule, occurring, it seems, to something like less than 1% of the prisoners. Mistreatment was far more apt to take psychological rather than physical...
...Commander. Rockwell came upon his tortured creed by accident. Born in 1918, the son of a vaudeville co median, he dropped out of Brown University in 1940 to become a Navy pilot because, as he later said, he believed "all that hooey about Hitler." Recalled during the Korean War with the rank of commander, he got his first glimpse of racist literature from a Navy couple in San Diego. At first he skimmed, then read deeply. Soon he had graduated to a secondhand edition of Mein Kampf. "I was hypnotized, transfixed," said Rockwell. "Within a year...
...Revolutionary Development cadre that in fact had 42 members. Though many sidewalk stalls of black-marketeers have been closed down, Saigon still has a thriving trade in illicit Western luxury goods pilfered or bought from the huge stocks brought in by the U.S. Veterans of the Korean War are reminded of the vast theft-ridden port of Pusan. "The Koreans were really much better at this than the Vietnamese," says...