Word: pusan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Billy Graham had arrived in Pusan a week earlier to do some preaching for Korean Christians. In five nights of preaching-three to largely Korean audiences, two to groups of G.I.s-more than i.ooo walked down the aisle to make "decisions for Christ." Said Evangelist Billy: "It makes no difference whether you are Korean, American, Chinese or Japanese. You are all sinners." In the Seoul area, the cardinal visited hospitals and various nearby units, faithfully taking the names of all the soldiers he talked to. (Last year he sent letters to the relatives of 6,000 after he returned...
...first disorganized days of the Korean war, the Marines were ready again, and it was Lem Shepherd who bore the brunt of getting them into the hard-pressed Pusan perimeter. The decision to take Inchon from the sea was General Douglas MacArthur's; the men who did the detailed planning were a little group of Marine officers, and the first troops ashore were from the First Marine Division, with Lem Shepherd landing in the fifth assault wave. When Chinese hordes threatened to engulf the Marines below the Yalu River, Shepherd flew to the Changjin Reservoir by helicopter...
Lieut. Mishin's remains were first interred in the enemy section of the U.N. cemetery at Pusan. Recently they were transferred to a special area labeled "nonbelligerent," only a few yards from the thicket of crosses that mark the graves of U.S. and other U.N. fighting men. Mishin's grave is the only one in the "nonbelligerent" section...
Just as notable-though different in kind-was your response to TIME's July 21 report on the homeless children of Pusan. Almost every letter expressed the thought of one TIME reader: "I don't want to think that in this world and in this day, little children can be abandoned to die. I feel that the U.S. has a very real responsibility . . . How can I help...
...further result of the Pusan story, the citizens of at least one city are embarked on a group effort. At the home of TIME-reader Louisa Boyd Gile, poetess and wife of a retired Army major, some 30 key citizens of La Jolla, Calif, met to set up relief plans for the world's needy and neglected children. The group will center its initial efforts on arousing the interest of local civic groups, plans to spend the first money it raises on school rehabilitation kits and tents to substitute for bombed-out school buildings...