Hello, I am from South Korea. If Un hadn't helped us at that time, we could have lived in Kim Jong Un's hellish reign now. Thank you so much to everyone who fought with North Korea and protected our freedom.🇰🇷🤝🇺🇸
When I was a cadet 40 years ago, we used to meet vets at the VFW. The Korean War vets often were missing fingers and pieces of their ears, and other visible scars of their service. A frozen hell.
Interesting, they probably were (most of them) born in late 20s and early 30s (1927-1933), making them (age wise in 1950) probably between 17 and 23). Soz around 1981, when you just have seen them they were around 48-54 years old. Not that old it seems. Soz were they recruits or trainers or even Majors and Colonels? Did you hear any stories from them? I wonder what they just be doing now? They must be 88-94 years old now 🥺🥺🥺
“Almost a second war” But there was! In the early 1960’s a second conflict occurred that was called “The Korea DMZ Conflict” which sounds like the same thing, but was an entirely different conflict. It was just overshadowed by Vietnam. It was the forgotten forgotten war, and my grandfather, Sgt. Herman Williams was there.
My grandpa is a korean vet, he just got a pacemaker put in still smokes his Winston 100s an goes to the legion for his jack and water he used to work for the IRS. Its been a week since ive seen him this pandemic and cold weather has completely flipped his world around i hope for better days an warmer weather i love going to lunch with him an hearing his never ending stories
Fix bayonets! And then the Chinese came! As quoted by my Grandfather veteran of the frozen Chosin ! He told me how they used body's for sand bags and didn't dare start fires for warmth because the enemy would call in artillery on any visible light or smoke! He was in Korea, Vietnam and Beirut in the US Army airborne 101st and 82nd for over 32 years received 2 purple Harts with many other medals and told me out of all the WARs he was in nothing was scarier then the Korean conflict! Vietnam was hot and you could never see the enemy but Korea was cold and all you could see was the enemy as they came down the mountains in wave after wave while you run out of ammo saying how they cleared every village on the way like army ants using peasants with pitchforks in the first wave to wear you down and make you low on supplies then when you thought it was over they would send in their real Army highly trained and supplied never ending as barrels melted off machine guns and body's piled up around him! Never Forget He said! Never Forget!
@@ChauncyFatsack Your grandfather had an amazing career. My father served in Korea during that war but he died when I was 12 and I never got a chance to talk to him about it.
The Korean war not forgotten my dads younger brother was killed in it all his older brothers survived WWII he wasnt old enough until Korea R.I.P. Leonard and all his older brothers that are gone now except my dad whose 95.
I spent 3 straight years on the ROK many years ago when I was a much younger man, and because I am from Vermont I loved the rolling green mountains of the Korean Peninsula. The ROK is a beautiful country, a place where you can experience all four season, have a great big city experience, enjoy some great hiking while you visit the Buddhist communities, or enjoy the Islands south of the peninsula (of which I will not butcher the name of here). I am looking forward to returning to the ROK and staying in the Dragon Hill Lodge again, and maybe a visit to Iatewon...........
Both of my Grandfathers fought in Korea. Grandpa Taylor was a Navy doctor. Grandpa Coleman was in the 10th Mountain and 4th Armored for the Army. May they rest in peace.
I'm thankful to your family's contribution to our country. Thank you. My dad was Korean vet, a Chosin Frozen. My husband served in Vietnam and the Cold War (intelligence). I understand the sacrifice a little better than some, though no non-combatants will ever understand most of what those who served went through.
@@joemckraken7960 ‘Unwashed communist hoarde’?? I cant even start a conversation with someone who talks this way without irony. But no, America was fighting for America. As they always did during the cold war. But believe Cold war era propaganda about who you were fighting and why.
My Mom at age 50 decided she was going to take some classes at UTSA. She pulled a double major in 4 years. Political Science and Criminal Justice. I would try to have lunch with her campus. Sat in with her in a History class. The Professor starts talking about the Vietnam War. Mom raised her hand. "Yes?". "Your information is inaccurate .This is what was really going on". This professor didn't like hearing that. She directed Mom to sit down front. "How do I know your information is accurate?". My son's godfather was stationed there in 1965. 25th Infantry Division. My ex-husband volunteered in 1966. IVth Infantry Division. Mom was asked to leave because of her disruptive attitude. At her "hearing" she brought in all the letters she had gotten from Vietnam. The Professor was embarrassed because someone stood up an said that's not true.
I was stationed in South Korea from 2002 till 2003 right up near the DMZ. We spent a lot of time out in the field training. On at least a couple of occasions myself and others saw lights that we couldn’t explain. I would never describe it as a jack-o’-lantern or UFO but what we talked about and thought that it looked like was something like a glow stick that was floating a few feet off the ground. It was always in the distance but we had night vision goggles and infrared scopes so if it was warm blooded we should’ve seen it and we didn’t. Just a hovering, moving light. I don’t think it was supernatural but I don’t have a good explanation either. 5 or 6 of us saw the same thing.
My late father was a Korean War vet. He said that he avoided combat by becoming a stenographer, but then ended up having to stay in Panmunjom until 1954 taking shorthand at the armistice talks and subsequent negotiations. He was ordered to never talk to anyone about the details, so he didn't. He's buried in Black Hills National Cemetery, South Dakota.
@@BuzzLOLOL This guy is making the same stupid comment everywhere on this thread claiming Korea was a religion fueled war. Sounds like a North Korean propaganda talking point.
@@BuzzLOLOL North Korea best Korea right? Just because you want something to be true and have been programmed to believe it through State propaganda dosen't make it true.
My 90 year old father still alive fought at the battles of Twin Tunnels and Chipyong-ni. The battle of Chipyong-ni is the Gettysburg of the Korean war where the South won
My 93 year old grandfather got out of the marines a year before any troops were sent to Korea. He lost a lot of friends in that war, and I can tell it weighs on him that he didn’t go.
My father as well fought in that cold forgotten war. He to passed on to a better life. God bless our marines, i to served in dessert storm, God i miss my dad.
My grandmother's brother in law went to the Korean war and was always a violent abusive husband to his wife, my grandmother's sister, and also a mild alcoholic. It must have been a traumatising experience 😢
@Auxiliary Stream Services Im afraid you worded it wrong, North Korea attacked South Korea beginning the war, USA came and pushed NK to the Chinese border then China sends their guys and push the USA to the modern day DMZ
As Americans, the wars of the 20th century we're most informed about are WW II and Vietnam.. The sandwiched war (as mentioned here) was a bloody ass war. 54,000 American troops killed in 3 years in the Korean war vs 58,000 killed in 11 years in Vietnam. I understand both wars were fought under different auspices. I understand that NO war was "better than the other" War is simply horrible, period. I also respect our veterans regardless of when they served. My point here is Korea was a bloodbath having almost as many U.S military casualties as Vietnam in almost 25% of time fought..scary thought
@@Thunderchild-gz4gc My country was involved in WW2 from the start. You were dragged in kicking and screaming. Aid and whatnot - pitiful. Britain, Canada, Australia, NZ and India stopped Hitler. The US was a disgrace in both world wars. I admit after WW2 you bailed out the whole world with aid but that's not what we mean.
MacArthur - Suggested attacking or using nuclear weapons against China because they were aiding the koreans in pushing the americans further from the highest point in korea they got to Also MacArthur - Gets sacked and taken out of power for suggesting a completely reasonable response to Chinese aggression And look where we are today.
Hold on... So they were running out of ammunition and requested more, got chocolate bars instead... and THAT was the reason they accomplished their mission? Something ain't right here
My grandpa was almost sent Korea, but he had a speech problem, he's still alive but we just found out a few years ago, most of the people he knew who went half of them died
Craziest Korean War Fact: A cease fire was agreed upon but no treaty officially ending the war was ever signed. Meaning it’s still technically an on going war.
@@jamesfrancis1950 So maybe it was never a war... I don't know that there was a declaration of war in Vietnam either. Never get into a land war in Asia.
@@jamesfrancis1950 James Francis, that is correct. When the US Army invaded the small island of Grenada, was there a declaration of war? When we invaded Panama and caused 4,381 deaths there, did we also declare a war? In Somalia? In Lebanon? In Libya? In Afghanistan? We attacked Saddam Hussein accusing him of having Weapons of Mass Destruction (which we sold him), when he did not have them. Under what "Casus Belli" was Mexico invaded (1847), to steal half of its territory? What was the cause of the war between the US and Mexico? What did Mexico do to deserve an invasion? What did Spain do so that we stole ALL of its possessions? (Oh! Yes, we "sunk the Maine" inside the port of Havana LOL) Check out these FACTS that are on the Web: In 250 years of existence as a nation, the US has fought against 29 sovereign countries. We have "grown" 711 times the size of our territory from the original 13 colonies. We have provoked with total impunity, assassinations of government leaders, Coups d'État and Economic Blockades in 6 UN member nations. We have 800 Military Bases scattered around the world; 13 of which are against China. On the other hand, China and Korea, in 2,000 years of history have NEVER invaded anyone. These nations have fought their Civil Wars, defended themselves against foreign invasions, and secured their immediate borders, but they have never been meddling or aggressor countries. Do you know how many Military Bases China or Korea have outside their territory? None. Zero. Any. NADA! They do not have a single Base. These are verifiable facts. Neither China nor Korea will invade the world; We do... that's Done. Ahhh...! And we DO NOT need a declaration of war.
It was actually NK attacking SK for a secret reason, some sources said that NK originally planning on to attack Syngman Rhee. And yes, there was no declaration from both sides to end the war so practically they're still in cold war, with NK launching few rudals every year.
Make sure to thank him for serving for me? Their treatment on both sides of this war was beyond reprehensible. I appreciate his sacrifice and struggles.
hell yea. my grandpa served and is still kicking, don’t know his exact age but he’s in his late 80s. dude always tells the same war stories but i never get tired of it
How typical that you say the North Koreans were justified in their cruelty because, as you say, we destroyed North Korea in the war. Apparently you missed the fact that North Korea started the war and overran and destroyed almost all of South Korea right at the start. There was no ambiguity there, it was outright naked aggression--they also stole everything they found, including the entire cash crop of ginseng, leaving South Koreans destitute. But of course you've been told that America must always be wrong about everything, and you believe everything you hear.
I wish I could have seen this video 20 years ago when I was friends with a Korean veteran who was a pilot in the U.S. AirForce during Korea and then went to Vietnam! He was a true American Hero!!
I’m a 90s baby and my great grandfather was a Korean War vet. He was missing in action for 14 days. He passed away when I was little in the early 2000s. These soldiers were brave !!!!
My Dad survived being a Marine during the WWII. He was stationed on the Carnary Islands. He was traumatized and was most likely suffered from PTSD before anyone knew what that was. Plus he would not talk openly about his experiences.
@@jamesbelljr7987 While true, "shell shock" was a diagnosis based on mental trauma induced by actual physical shock from exploding shells. PTSD or the association between mental trauma and the experience itself didn't become a part of the pharmacopeia until 1980, although the notion of it being exclusively from the physical shock was argued for a few decades prior.
@@ginxxxxx And who pulled your string, Chatty Cathy? In case you haven't noticed, this is a public forum where anyone with an account, including easily triggered keyboard warriors like yourself, can openly comment. Maybe if you start uploading content yourself you can turn off comments on your videos so you can feel like you won the debate you refused to have, or be educated on something you were confused about in your video.
@@jamesbelljr7987 I'm not disagreeing on the reality of it being trauma, just that the actual "shell shocked" term referenced the idea that it was a result of physical trauma, originally. You are right of course, it did take on the expanded definition hence it was relabeled PTSD finally.
My father in law fought in Korea. He was captured by the Chinese and was a P.O.W. for 27 months 17 days. His first child was 2 before she met him. He had problems sleeping the rest of his life. He helped form an organization of the P.O.W.s so they could have a reunion once a year. He went in at 180 pounds came out at 82. He spent 6 months in solitary confinement.
@@BuzzLOLOL you're a disrespectful asshole. If you were in front of me right now id make you a victim of my religion except you'd be eating food from a straw
@@frednugent2310 - Of course... as we all know ALL RELIGIONS = ADDICTION to being LIED TO, an ENFORCED PSYCHOSIS, and WRITTEN ORDERS for their customers to automatically instantly HATE, HURT, and MASS MURDER EVERYONE on the planet not of the exact same religion !!! .. i.e. Armageddon, Left Behind movies, Story of Noah's Ark, Holocaust, 9/11, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Oklahoma City Bombing, Sandy Hook School, Las Vegas mass murdering, Somalia Bombing, Florida School Murdering, etc...
My Dad was in WW2. Left his senior year in high school on Valentine's Day @ age 17 to sign up. He was in the Navy as a Morse code operator. He didn't talk about it much and he was in China, Japan and Hawaii. He died a few years ago at 91. Miss him.
My uncle died in the Korean war before my dad was born his name is on that memorial I believe it's in Washington DC. My uncle died for our freedoms and of course died a hero. To all those who fought and died our freedoms you will always be admired and never forgotten.
The big thing is missed. The "new" Air Force literally bombed North Korea back to the stone age - there were no 2 story buildings (or more) left standing in the country. So, how did that work out for the world?
My paternal Grandfather served in Korea and supposedly had a child there, so somewhere half way across the world there is a half Native American (Mohawk)/half Korean man who never knew or met his father.
born in korea is native korean. Native means born there. I'm a native american. I was born in america. The media and the powers that be insert words and phrases into our vernacular. Most are absurd and incorrect. Neither native or american implies ethnicity. Mongoloid people crossed from asia to america. When caucasians arrived they found them here first. That is called indigenous. These indigenous people where commonly called indians until big brother told everyone how to talk. Many still use indian including A.I.M. and me. We apparently don't care what "the man" tells us to say So in conclusion I am suggesting you drop the newspeak party member
As a young devildog going through school of infantry at camp Pendleton, we had the honor of meeting several Korean war veterans who came out to tell us some of their stories. Its a shame the Korean war is nearly forgotten when so many gave so much.
After 8-16-76 to say there was a build up of forces on the DMZ doesn't describe the events well. I was 1 kilometr to the right of JSC when the murders occured and with B52's flying over N. Korea the next day and everything behind us looked like a giant Tank lot, the N. Koreans backed up at least 5 miles from the fence.
I actually remember that the TV show MASH actually had the announcement that they have decided on a flagpole size over the PA system during the show as a major breakthrough to show just how insane the war actually was.
I was taught that McArthur wanted to use nuclear weapons, Truman was against it, McArthur disobeyed crossing the 49th parallel and his butt was recalled and retired
"Men since the beginning of time have sought peace. Various methods through the ages have been attempted to devise an international process to prevent or settle disputes between nations. From the very start workable methods were found in so far as individual citizens were concerned, but the mechanics of an instrumentality of larger international scope have never been successful. Military alliances, balances of power, Leagues of Nations, all in turn failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war (nuclear weapons) now blocks out this alternative. We have had our last chance. If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door." -GoA Douglas MacArthur MacArthur was actually against the use of nuclear weapons. It was Truman who authorized their use in WWII.
@@josephfitzhenry245 Don't you think it's important to note that Mac said this AFTER he retired from the military and no longer was in a position to either initiate their use or be ordered to use them? It's not like his principals ran so high that he resigned immediately after Japan was bombed, let alone when he was told Truman had made the decision.
Million thanks to all korean war veterans from all over the world, especially USA which suffered 38k KIAs. It was worth sacrificing for freedom of S. Korea. It is a good country now thanks to those who risked their lives.
It's funny you can sit here and say their sacrifices were worth it when you weren't the one sacrificing your life. I'm not saying that you're wrong but it's pretty tone deaf
Forgotten Valor: 900 members of the Filipino 10th Battalion Combat Team repelled 4 Chinese divisions of 40,000 men in the battle of Yultong, a hill north of Yeoncheon. This battle was part of the Chinese Spring Offensive in April of 1951. The 10th Battalion Combat Team reported 12 killed, 38 wounded, and 6 missing in action. Chinese losses were reported to be more than 500 killed (they stop counting dead Chinese bodies after 500) The Philippines, still not recovered from the devastation it suffered in WWII, was the third country to contribute to the UN/US war efforts. The country sent a total of 10,000 men through out the Korean war. This piece of history is totally forgotten by the UN, the United States, and the Korean people.
Actually The Philippines had no choice but so send men in Korea at that time, It was a part of deal which made by the US and The Philippines back then after getting their Independence no matter what they will be used as US in terms of Military needs, Yan po nangyare kaya no choice yung mga pinoy noon, pero astig parin sahil hindi sila nag reklamo mahusay silang nakipag laban
My grandpa was there but he didn’t like to mention it. The most detail I remember him going into he described being under fire running ammunition between mg posts.
my father would with other marines, but he had to be hella drunk to tell any pacific ww2 stories (usually with fellow USMC officers). i've overheard a couple--ugly, brutal, barbaric stuff by both sides, enough to shock even my 6 y.o. mind at the time.
My father was in the German (Austrian) army at Monte Cassino- at 17- and was captured walking away from Normandy by American troops (he would gave been shot by German troops) and was sponsored by the Americans to immigrate and become American... so he felt obligated to fight in Korea... he said that was far worse. Could never tell who’s side the Koreans were on... and knifing soldiers at night was the main way to find out.
@@gregcrane4953 - ALL RELIGIONS = ADDICTION to being LIED TO, an ENFORCED PSYCHOSIS, and WRITTEN ORDERS for their customers to automatically instantly HATE, HURT, and MASS MURDER EVERYONE on the planet not of the exact same religion !!! .. i.e. Armageddon, Left Behind movies, Story of Noah's Ark, Holocaust, 9/11, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Oklahoma City Bombing, Sandy Hook School, Las Vegas mass murdering, Somalia Bombing, Florida School Murdering, etc...
My dad fought in Korea, Cho Sin resivoir battle, and 2 or 3 others. He was sent home wounded , schrapnal left leg, back, and buttcheek, limped from then on, but the real wounds were in his head, he was violent and mean, beat my mother and they divorced when I was in grade 2. From then on we didn't see him much as he traveled around the world on ships a member of the seamans international union, prior to his death 10 yrs. ago in Houston V.A. psycologist said he was suffering from previously undiagnosed P.T.S.D., at least, now I realize the cause of my crappy childhood.
@@colinhalliley111 you are right Colin my father fought in Korea 7th Div. He could be the nicest man but many times during my childhood he could be the meanest and most violent man. I never understood why until many years. He passed away in 2017 I hope he is at peace now after so many years of misery after the war.
@@saralopez9965 my dad was also 7th Infantry 32nd regiment in Korea. He was like your dad always very distant even if we were in the same room together. I always thought he was mad at me even when he was not. One thing though he was always their for me when I needed him. Most of my friends. Were scarred of him just by his presence alone even if he was smiling. He could be so gental at times and like the devil one second later.
@@RobertBrown-wm9ob The last few years of his life were probably the best. He was the best grandpa to my daughter and they became inseparable. She misses him every day. I miss him too.
R.I.P. Robert Paul N.Z. k.Force m.p 185th battalion ' lest we forget ' much respect to all who served returned and fallen we will never forget God bless you all
Several cause-and-effect pronouncements in this "documentary" are questionable. Beware what's implicit in the narration. It ain't just the terrible gangling of the background music.
My dad was drafted into the Vietnam War, but sent to Korea when, to this day, officially American soldiers were not supposed to be in Korea. They were told they could never tell anyone that, so he made it a point to tell everyone...so I am telling you.
I thank him for his service. But as for not supposed to be there i think he could be pulling your leg. I don't know of any time that American soldiers were not supposed to be in south Korea. Nor does my stepfather who is Also a Korea and Vietnam war veteran retired as a major
BS...You or your Dad are telling Sea Stories...Korea was a Duty Station for 35,000 Army personnel since 1953...still is...and how old is your "Dad" if he was drafted at 18 in 1965?
wait a minute if American soldiers were not supposed to be there Please explain why My Father was there from end of 1950 to 1953, and how i managed while in the US army to spend 2 yrs there myself 81 and 82. Plus who were those guys Reagan visited
I don't think any Chinese divisions were "taken out" at Chosin. Plus, the Army's Task Force Smith deserves a mention. At least you're talking about the war.
If you ever did a night ambush in February on the DMZ then you would know what cold is really like. It can get 30 below and near 50 below with the wind chill. It’s called Manchurian winds and it’s deadly cold. Anything under 20 and we would take our cold weather bags to lay in ambush. You still froze solid to the ground. I served at Camp Greaves and Camp Hovey. I was there from 86-90.
Of all the battles, my grandpa survived Chosin....he only ever spoke of it 1 time. I was complaining about being cold. He proceeded to tell me about his encounter. I cried. Absolutley brutal. To the day he died he always told me that China was Americas biggest threat.
@@Ashphinchtersayswhat god bless him! We've descended from some of the toughest SOB's in the history of the American military....like my grand dad used to say after his first shot of bourbon "oooohhhh raaah"
Grandpa was an engineer for the Air Force. He still alive and is always trying to do everything him self. He said the local store taped lizard to the ceiling to catch flys and the time he a corporal pointed his rifle at a 3 star general
@@Taiko-THC349 the base was doing an attack drill. He was stand guard as a black sedan drove up. At the time the drill ended but he did know. So he point his rifle at the driver then walk to the back as the window went down with his rifle point inside he saw the stars.
My dad was in the Korean War. HE use to tell a joke. The enemies were relentlessly throwing bombs at us. We were picking them up, lighting them and throwing them back.
My dad was stationed there during the War... I was stationed there in the 1980s. Took a tour of the DMZ after tours were *cancelled* a couple of times based on how hot things were up at the border! Will never forget how barren and dead the North looked. You turn around and look back into the South and it was green and full of colorful flowers, etc. Look back into the North and it was pretty much brown and "dead" looking. No color. North Korean troops staring back at you unblinkingly, loud speakers blaring propaganda, Flag the size of a football field. A very creepy place.
Y’all forgot Hemorrhagic fever (hantavirus) in Korea. The mice in the battlefront carried the virus which caused soldiers to bleed out of their eyes and lose fluids with a 15% chance of death.
My uncle would talk about the war to his friends I heard him talking the cold he would talk about soilders that had frost so bad they lost there toes an fingers but he it was not as bad as the Chinese soilders who would turn black
2,500,000 Chinese Communist soldiers were fighting the U. S. Marines at the Chosin, found in historical documents released not too many years ago. You look it up. I won't do your work. As for me, I was born not too far from the war zone, dear old dad, then a civilian under U. S. Government employment, was busy parachuting hundreds of miles into Communist China (more than once) or working with Nationalist Chinese troops raiding Communist Chinese military bases and installations on the Communist Chinese mainland coast. His exploits died with him. Dear old dad was a hero and is a Cold War legend. Few men measure up to him. And dear old mom was tougher! Lol! (Their sons were/are no slackers)
Dude, there's a video of a marine using a "useless switch" or "useless box", a toggle switch that activates an armature to turn the switch back off, to train his reaction speed. He set up an Arduino to randomize the time the armature waited to reset the switch. Sonofabitch un-uselessed an intentionally useless device
"the Korean war is often remembered for being forgotten" Uh huh...some college intern writers attempt at being poignet with the use of anostensible self contradicting rhetorical device like an oxymoron. That's just a cheap throw away use of words. This channel sucks.
My grandfather was in the 7th. Inf. Div. 17th. Inf. Regiment and was in the initial landing at Inchon. He was wounded in November of 1950. He said the ground was so cold, they had to blow it up with dynamite.
When this man came to the U.S. he’s getting the full racism experience in America! Then Americans told him to go back to his country lol What a KARMA! Lmao!
My dad was in Korea from March 1951 to Sept. 51,2nd infantry 38 reg, took a bullet on hill 1243 near what they called the punch bowl..he really never talked about it. When we where kids on the 4th he always took us to big fireworks displays .when the grand finally started he would put his fingers in his ears and walk away.Years later I asked him about this he said it reminded him of the" intense shelling night after night ,drove some guys crazy" The korean war was a close- up, face to face, meat grinder....
My late uncle was in the US Army during Korean War. He said he nearly froze to death there. He harbored a lifetime hatred for Harry Truman. TH-cam wouldn't allow me to quote my uncle's profanity when the topic of Truman came up.
I remember a friends uncle said I was uneducated when I said the USA fought China in the Korean War. 🤦♂️ I’m not a fan of trump but him tweeting that “ The us has more nukes, bigger and they actually work” was the funniest shit ever.
When you said it was minus 25 degrees was that in Celsius or feinhight, when will you yanks stop using the British imperial system, Australia is still a common wealth country but we went metric back in 66,,why make life difficult for your selves the metric system is so much easier to understand and use,
My Father was a combat vet of both WW2 & Korea (Germany & Korea) I am the direct result of his twice wounded return from Korea (born July 1952) I am a (Convoy Combat Vet) of the COLD WAR (Germany & Korea) small world, huh?
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Hello, I am from South Korea. If Un hadn't helped us at that time, we could have lived in Kim Jong Un's hellish reign now. Thank you so much to everyone who fought with North Korea and protected our freedom.🇰🇷🤝🇺🇸
Newsflash, it wasn’t just America
My grandfather was a survivor of the Battle at Chosin. Now we are the ones concerned with losing our freedom😢
@@naomiarmstrong3105 news flash, he said "UN"
My grandpa was a Korean War vet and passed in December 20 2020 Rest In Peace gramps
Same. He died in 2019. RIP both. My grandpa drove truck between front lines and command. What did yours do?
RIP to your grandad
2008 for me
Didnt ask
@@jamoo0 came from his funeral today and he was a clerk typist with sergeant rank
When I was a cadet 40 years ago, we used to meet vets at the VFW. The Korean War vets often were missing fingers and pieces of their ears, and other visible scars of their service. A frozen hell.
Americans have that idea but I have lived in South Korea for 22 years and it’s not nearly as cold as northeast US or mid west.
@@garyfrancis6193 frost bite at n.east korea, near manchurio.
Interesting, they probably were (most of them) born in late 20s and early 30s (1927-1933), making them (age wise in 1950) probably between 17 and 23). Soz around 1981, when you just have seen them they were around 48-54 years old. Not that old it seems. Soz were they recruits or trainers or even Majors and Colonels? Did you hear any stories from them? I wonder what they just be doing now? They must be 88-94 years old now 🥺🥺🥺
@@CoolnCarin5241 finished high school in 1950, you were in korea in 1951.
@@jerrylyons9279 usually in US you finish school at 18 right? So that puts you at date if birth 1932? OMG You're 89 years old 😯😯😯
“Almost a second war” But there was! In the early 1960’s a second conflict occurred that was called “The Korea DMZ Conflict” which sounds like the same thing, but was an entirely different conflict. It was just overshadowed by Vietnam.
It was the forgotten forgotten war, and my grandfather, Sgt. Herman Williams was there.
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that was in the late 60s
Mark felton
My grandpa is a korean vet, he just got a pacemaker put in still smokes his Winston 100s an goes to the legion for his jack and water he used to work for the IRS. Its been a week since ive seen him this pandemic and cold weather has completely flipped his world around i hope for better days an warmer weather i love going to lunch with him an hearing his never ending stories
Fix bayonets! And then the Chinese came! As quoted by my Grandfather veteran of the frozen Chosin ! He told me how they used body's for sand bags and didn't dare start fires for warmth because the enemy would call in artillery on any visible light or smoke! He was in Korea, Vietnam and Beirut in the US Army airborne 101st and 82nd for over 32 years received 2 purple Harts with many other medals and told me out of all the WARs he was in nothing was scarier then the Korean conflict! Vietnam was hot and you could never see the enemy but Korea was cold and all you could see was the enemy as they came down the mountains in wave after wave while you run out of ammo saying how they cleared every village on the way like army ants using peasants with pitchforks in the first wave to wear you down and make you low on supplies then when you thought it was over they would send in their real Army highly trained and supplied never ending as barrels melted off machine guns and body's piled up around him! Never Forget He said! Never Forget!
My father as well. He's 88 and doing well. I was born while he was north of the 38th around the Punchbowl area on a 105 with X Corps HQ.
@@ChauncyFatsack Your grandfather had an amazing career. My father served in Korea during that war but he died when I was 12 and I never got a chance to talk to him about it.
Sounds like a rad guy!!
Sorry grandpa was abused by this unneeded religion-fueled war...
The Korean war not forgotten my dads younger brother was killed in it all his older brothers survived WWII he wasnt old enough until Korea R.I.P. Leonard and all his older brothers that are gone now except my dad whose 95.
I thank them for their service , that war was hell, and put in the history books as " a conflict" .
Uncle, the word your looking for is uncle.
@@sethsassy LOL and you need to punctuate this better! You need a period(fullstop) instead of a comma(comma) after the first instance of 'uncle'.
@Inconnu 49 And so do you. You need a space after 'period' and 'comma', and you forgot to tell them to put an apostrophe in 'you're'. There we go
@@J3diMindTrix you need to criticize yourself because nobody cares about that crap except a person with no life.
Rip My Great Uncle Joe Baldonaldo a real life Rambo Medal of Honor recipient in the Korean War
My Great Uncle Johnny Spitzer participate in Korean War in The Army. He participated The Battle of Pork Chop Hill.
What battle did he serve at?
I spent 3 straight years on the ROK many years ago when I was a much younger man, and because I am from Vermont I loved the rolling green mountains of the Korean Peninsula. The ROK is a beautiful country, a place where you can experience all four season, have a great big city experience, enjoy some great hiking while you visit the Buddhist communities, or enjoy the Islands south of the peninsula (of which I will not butcher the name of here). I am looking forward to returning to the ROK and staying in the Dragon Hill Lodge again, and maybe a visit to Iatewon...........
My uncle Charles Salls was a survivor. 50 call gunner at the reservoir.
Schaumburg man?
Both of my Grandfathers fought in Korea. Grandpa Taylor was a Navy doctor. Grandpa Coleman was in the 10th Mountain and 4th Armored for the Army. May they rest in peace.
I'm thankful to your family's contribution to our country. Thank you. My dad was Korean vet, a Chosin Frozen. My husband served in Vietnam and the Cold War (intelligence). I understand the sacrifice a little better than some, though no non-combatants will ever understand most of what those who served went through.
10th Mtn - Fort Drumm?
Papa and stepdad were both there
The 10th Mountain and 4th Armored weren't deployed to Korea during the Korean War 1950-53.
war criminals
My great uncle was a POW in North Korea. He kept trying to escape, so the broke both of his feet.
Stories like this certainly test one’s faith.
They don't teach about the korean and vietnam war in school. But 5 years in a row we learned the same thing about the civil war and ww1-ww2
This video itself is a big fat lie. Read my post to see where they twisted facts to make America seem neutral
@@yawdjin1737 neutral? where did you get that from? we were fighting for SOUTH korea, and against the unwashed communist horde.
@@joemckraken7960 ‘Unwashed communist hoarde’?? I cant even start a conversation with someone who talks this way without irony.
But no, America was fighting for America. As they always did during the cold war.
But believe Cold war era propaganda about who you were fighting and why.
@@yawdjin1737 I know the history now. Also I'm not as ignorant as the other guy. I have friends and family in Korea
My Mom at age 50 decided she was going to take some classes at UTSA. She pulled a double major in 4 years. Political Science and Criminal Justice. I would try to have lunch with her campus. Sat in with her in a History class. The Professor starts talking about the Vietnam War. Mom raised her hand. "Yes?". "Your information is inaccurate .This is what was really going on". This professor didn't like hearing that. She directed Mom to sit down front. "How do I know your information is accurate?". My son's godfather was stationed there in 1965. 25th Infantry Division. My ex-husband volunteered in 1966. IVth Infantry Division. Mom was asked to leave because of her disruptive attitude. At her "hearing" she brought in all the letters she had gotten from Vietnam. The Professor was embarrassed because someone stood up an said that's not true.
My father and his brother (my uncle, obviously) both served in Korea. I wish they were alive now, I'd have some questions for them.
@@UtahGmaw99 - I hope & pray they do right by him...
...as he obviously aboved & beyond for them & us, too.
I was stationed in South Korea from 2002 till 2003 right up near the DMZ. We spent a lot of time out in the field training. On at least a couple of occasions myself and others saw lights that we couldn’t explain. I would never describe it as a jack-o’-lantern or UFO but what we talked about and thought that it looked like was something like a glow stick that was floating a few feet off the ground. It was always in the distance but we had night vision goggles and infrared scopes so if it was warm blooded we should’ve seen it and we didn’t. Just a hovering, moving light. I don’t think it was supernatural but I don’t have a good explanation either. 5 or 6 of us saw the same thing.
Cool
really strange. I like hearing/reading stories about weird things happening like that.
Cool. Ive seen weird things
Probably super secret military craft
Maybe a Chinese lantern balloon...
My late father was a Korean War vet. He said that he avoided combat by becoming a stenographer, but then ended up having to stay in Panmunjom until 1954 taking shorthand at the armistice talks and subsequent negotiations. He was ordered to never talk to anyone about the details, so he didn't. He's buried in Black Hills National Cemetery, South Dakota.
RIP
Well... Sorry your father-in-law was abused by this unneeded religion-fueled war...
@@BuzzLOLOL This guy is making the same stupid comment everywhere on this thread claiming Korea was a religion fueled war. Sounds like a North Korean propaganda talking point.
@@camperben - The TRUTH stays the SAME everywhere, that's why...
@@BuzzLOLOL North Korea best Korea right? Just because you want something to be true and have been programmed to believe it through State propaganda dosen't make it true.
My 90 year old father still alive fought at the battles of Twin Tunnels and Chipyong-ni. The battle of Chipyong-ni is the Gettysburg of the Korean war where the South won
My 93 year old grandfather got out of the marines a year before any troops were sent to Korea. He lost a lot of friends in that war, and I can tell it weighs on him that he didn’t go.
Lesson in war: never say it will end by Christmas
Lesson is never have unneeded religion fueled wars...
@@BuzzLOLOL which is completely irrelevant to Korean War.
But that was MacArthur saying that. Not known for his intelligence
@@J3diMindTrix - Politics prevented MacArthur from wrapping the war up when he said...
@@e.s.6275 - Korean and Vietnam wars were Christians vs Buddhists...
My father fought in Korea in 1951 at Heartbreak Ridge, my father was wounded and eventually retired due wounds inflicted in combat
God Bless him for his service
My father as well fought in that cold forgotten war. He to passed on to a better life. God bless our marines, i to served in dessert storm, God i miss my dad.
The Chinese entry into the war was only "unexpected" by MacArthur, Almond, and their posse of yes-men.
My grandmother's brother in law went to the Korean war and was always a violent abusive husband to his wife, my grandmother's sister, and also a mild alcoholic. It must have been a traumatising experience 😢
All war is traumatizing
First Tank Bn, First Marine Division , 1952 --- Semper fi!
Thanks
Thank you for your service sir! 🇺🇸 🇺🇲 🇺🇸
thanks for your service. my brother, seargeant carroll m. lyons was there.
Thank you Sir
@Auxiliary Stream Services Im afraid you worded it wrong, North Korea attacked South Korea beginning the war, USA came and pushed NK to the Chinese border then China sends their guys and push the USA to the modern day DMZ
As Americans, the wars of the 20th century we're most informed about are WW II and Vietnam.. The sandwiched war (as mentioned here) was a bloody ass war. 54,000 American troops killed in 3 years in the Korean war vs 58,000 killed in 11 years in Vietnam. I understand both wars were fought under different auspices. I understand that NO war was "better than the other" War is simply horrible, period. I also respect our veterans regardless of when they served. My point here is Korea was a bloodbath having almost as many U.S military casualties as Vietnam in almost 25% of time fought..scary thought
And for that regardless of any war, we shall never forget it!
And at least in Korea, you went in early instead of going in kicking and screaming years late while millions of people had already been killed.
The result of war matters, and only matters.
@@tonylove4800 the U.S. was involved years before with aid and whatnot. You don't know anything.
@@Thunderchild-gz4gc My country was involved in WW2 from the start. You were dragged in kicking and screaming. Aid and whatnot - pitiful. Britain, Canada, Australia, NZ and India stopped Hitler. The US was a disgrace in both world wars. I admit after WW2 you bailed out the whole world with aid but that's not what we mean.
The god awful electric guitar music makes this unwatchable.
Is there any coincidence he shares Donald’s name?
The internet is not a place for sensitive, OCD, cupcakes like you. Dont like it? Move on.
Background music is what hacky uploaders need to cover up poor content. The most popular info/documentaries use none. Just a suggestion.
@@JodyHughesWarriorKing ... says the person who uploads conspiracy videos to TH-cam.
MacArthur - Suggested attacking or using nuclear weapons against China because they were aiding the koreans in pushing the americans further from the highest point in korea they got to
Also MacArthur - Gets sacked and taken out of power for suggesting a completely reasonable response to Chinese aggression
And look where we are today.
No MacArthur was sacked because he threatened to run against the president if he didn't get his way, do some research next time
Hold on... So they were running out of ammunition and requested more, got chocolate bars instead... and THAT was the reason they accomplished their mission?
Something ain't right here
It’s on TH-cam, must be true.
FUBAR! Have you ever heard of this?
My great uncle was a Korean War vet. He would refuse to talk about what he experienced. I don’t blame him
Our troops hated this unneeded religion-fueled war...
@@BuzzLOLOL had nothing to do with religion.
@@NinoNlkkl - ALL wars are fueled by religions...
@@BuzzLOLOL
Same with my grandpa.
My grandpa was almost sent Korea, but he had a speech problem, he's still alive but we just found out a few years ago, most of the people he knew who went half of them died
Craziest Korean War Fact: A cease fire was agreed upon but no treaty officially ending the war was ever signed.
Meaning it’s still technically an on going war.
there was never a decleration of war either
@@jamesfrancis1950 So maybe it was never a war... I don't know that there was a declaration of war in Vietnam either.
Never get into a land war in Asia.
@@michaelmacgeorge1082 we were just like here have some troops like we did at the beginning or Both world wars
@@jamesfrancis1950 James Francis, that is correct. When the US Army invaded the small island of Grenada, was there a declaration of war? When we invaded Panama and caused 4,381 deaths there, did we also declare a war? In Somalia? In Lebanon? In Libya? In Afghanistan? We attacked Saddam Hussein accusing him of having Weapons of Mass Destruction (which we sold him), when he did not have them. Under what "Casus Belli" was Mexico invaded (1847), to steal half of its territory? What was the cause of the war between the US and Mexico? What did Mexico do to deserve an invasion? What did Spain do so that we stole ALL of its possessions? (Oh! Yes, we "sunk the Maine" inside the port of Havana LOL) Check out these FACTS that are on the Web: In 250 years of existence as a nation, the US has fought against 29 sovereign countries. We have "grown" 711 times the size of our territory from the original 13 colonies. We have provoked with total impunity, assassinations of government leaders, Coups d'État and Economic Blockades in 6 UN member nations. We have 800 Military Bases scattered around the world; 13 of which are against China. On the other hand, China and Korea, in 2,000 years of history have NEVER invaded anyone. These nations have fought their Civil Wars, defended themselves against foreign invasions, and secured their immediate borders, but they have never been meddling or aggressor countries. Do you know how many Military Bases China or Korea have outside their territory? None. Zero. Any. NADA! They do not have a single Base. These are verifiable facts. Neither China nor Korea will invade the world; We do... that's Done. Ahhh...! And we DO NOT need a declaration of war.
It was actually NK attacking SK for a secret reason, some sources said that NK originally planning on to attack Syngman Rhee. And yes, there was no declaration from both sides to end the war so practically they're still in cold war, with NK launching few rudals every year.
My step grandpa served in this war! He's still kicking to this day.
My grandpa did as well sadly he no longer is with us
@@814PaWrestlingim sorry to hear that may he Rest In Peace
Make sure to thank him for serving for me? Their treatment on both sides of this war was beyond reprehensible. I appreciate his sacrifice and struggles.
hell yea. my grandpa served and is still kicking, don’t know his exact age but he’s in his late 80s. dude always tells the same war stories but i never get tired of it
My great grandpa served there to, he was a Sergeant in the US Marine Corps
How typical that you say the North Koreans were justified in their cruelty because, as you say, we destroyed North Korea in the war. Apparently you missed the fact that North Korea started the war and overran and destroyed almost all of South Korea right at the start. There was no ambiguity there, it was outright naked aggression--they also stole everything they found, including the entire cash crop of ginseng, leaving South Koreans destitute. But of course you've been told that America must always be wrong about everything, and you believe everything you hear.
How beautiful
I wish I could have seen this video 20 years ago when I was friends with a Korean veteran who was a pilot in the U.S. AirForce during Korea and then went to Vietnam! He was a true American Hero!!
I’m a 90s baby and my great grandfather was a Korean War vet. He was missing in action for 14 days. He passed away when I was little in the early 2000s. These soldiers were brave !!!!
My Dad survived being a Marine during the WWII. He was stationed on the Carnary Islands. He was traumatized and was most likely suffered from PTSD before anyone knew what that was. Plus he would not talk openly about his experiences.
Sorry to inform you, but World War 1 was the first war that soldiers was diagnosed with PTSD then known by the term "Shell Shock"
@@jamesbelljr7987 While true, "shell shock" was a diagnosis based on mental trauma induced by actual physical shock from exploding shells. PTSD or the association between mental trauma and the experience itself didn't become a part of the pharmacopeia until 1980, although the notion of it being exclusively from the physical shock was argued for a few decades prior.
@@justaguy6100 And prolonged exposure to active combat.....but my point was it was a disorder way before Korea
@@ginxxxxx And who pulled your string, Chatty Cathy? In case you haven't noticed, this is a public forum where anyone with an account, including easily triggered keyboard warriors like yourself, can openly comment. Maybe if you start uploading content yourself you can turn off comments on your videos so you can feel like you won the debate you refused to have, or be educated on something you were confused about in your video.
@@jamesbelljr7987 I'm not disagreeing on the reality of it being trauma, just that the actual "shell shocked" term referenced the idea that it was a result of physical trauma, originally. You are right of course, it did take on the expanded definition hence it was relabeled PTSD finally.
My father in law fought in Korea. He was captured by the Chinese and was a P.O.W. for 27 months 17 days. His first child was 2 before she met him. He had problems sleeping the rest of his life. He helped form an organization of the P.O.W.s so they could have a reunion once a year. He went in at 180 pounds came out at 82. He spent 6 months in solitary confinement.
Thank you for sharing this 🙏 ❤
Sorry your father-in-law was abused by this unneeded religion-fueled war...
@@BuzzLOLOL you're a disrespectful asshole. If you were in front of me right now id make you a victim of my religion except you'd be eating food from a straw
@@frednugent2310 - Of course... as we all know ALL RELIGIONS = ADDICTION to being LIED TO, an ENFORCED PSYCHOSIS, and WRITTEN ORDERS for their customers to automatically instantly HATE, HURT, and MASS MURDER EVERYONE on the planet not of the exact same religion !!! .. i.e. Armageddon, Left Behind movies, Story of Noah's Ark, Holocaust, 9/11, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Oklahoma City Bombing, Sandy Hook School, Las Vegas mass murdering, Somalia Bombing, Florida School Murdering, etc...
@@BuzzLOLOL "cough" DOUCHEBAG
My 90 year old father was in 45th Infantry Division in this war - never talks about it and I'll guarantee you we never watched M*A*S*H
My Dad was in WW2. Left his senior year in high school on Valentine's Day @ age 17 to sign up. He was in the Navy as a Morse code operator. He didn't talk about it much and he was in China, Japan and Hawaii. He died a few years ago at 91. Miss him.
My uncle died in the Korean war before my dad was born his name is on that memorial I believe it's in Washington DC. My uncle died for our freedoms and of course died a hero. To all those who fought and died our freedoms you will always be admired and never forgotten.
The big thing is missed. The "new" Air Force literally bombed North Korea back to the stone age - there were no 2 story buildings (or more) left standing in the country. So, how did that work out for the world?
My paternal Grandfather served in Korea and supposedly had a child there, so somewhere half way across the world there is a half Native American (Mohawk)/half Korean man who never knew or met his father.
Homie probably just looks Mexican or Filipino lol!
At least that you're aware of
Take a genealogy DNA test hopefully you can meet your uncle.
born in korea is native korean. Native means born there. I'm a native american. I was born in america. The media and the powers that be insert words and phrases into our vernacular. Most are absurd and incorrect. Neither native or american implies ethnicity. Mongoloid people crossed from asia to america. When caucasians arrived they found them here first. That is called indigenous. These indigenous people where commonly called indians until big brother told everyone how to talk. Many still use indian including A.I.M. and me. We apparently don't care what "the man" tells us to say So in conclusion I am suggesting you drop the newspeak party member
The most shocking thing I heard about the Korean War is that Martin crane didn't actually take part in it. Everything I knew was a lie
As a young devildog going through school of infantry at camp Pendleton, we had the honor of meeting several Korean war veterans who came out to tell us some of their stories. Its a shame the Korean war is nearly forgotten when so many gave so much.
I wouldn't call it "forgotten" just not as notoriously remembered. Were still at war with N Korea, technically.
@Auxiliary Stream Services allies defend allies. Simple as that. Why did china attack US during Korean war? Did US attack china?
@Auxiliary Stream Services - Yes, another unneeded religion-fueled war...
@@ptrekboxbreaks5198 - U S attacked Korea, China helped the Koreans in this unneeded religion-fueled war...
The narrator said Truman "atomically bombed" at the 13 minute mark. Come on. Who edits this stuff?
Yes, I was going to comment on this but you beat me to it.
@@KCODacey well, saying a True Man
_"anatomically bombed"_ is just, y'know,
gettin' a bit too personal!
Truman atomicly bombed or Truman was atomicly bombed? Either he failed horribly or was unbelievably drunk
I remember the Middle finger signal...And that Pueblo Bullshit..
Last I knew the USS Pueblo was still on display in Pyongyang, North Korea (North Korean capital) and is the only ship of its type on display anywhere
After 8-16-76 to say there was a build up of forces on the DMZ doesn't describe the events well. I was 1 kilometr to the right of JSC when the murders occured and with B52's flying over N. Korea the next day and everything behind us looked like a giant Tank lot, the N. Koreans backed up at least 5 miles from the fence.
I actually remember that the TV show MASH actually had the announcement that they have decided on a flagpole size over the PA system during the show as a major breakthrough to show just how insane the war actually was.
Mash is about Vietnam not Korea they're just too cowardly to admit it
He music is terrible..makes me stop watching...
Good for you
I was taught that McArthur wanted to use nuclear weapons, Truman was against it, McArthur disobeyed crossing the 49th parallel and his butt was recalled and retired
MacArthur invaded Canada?
I read that he wanted to use 25 or so nuclear bombs just north along the Yalu river to create a buffer between China and North Korea.
And Truman's popularity crashed and burned.
"Men since the beginning of time have sought peace. Various methods through the ages have been attempted to devise an international process to prevent or settle disputes between nations. From the very start workable methods were found in so far as individual citizens were concerned, but the mechanics of an instrumentality of larger international scope have never been successful. Military alliances, balances of power, Leagues of Nations, all in turn failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war (nuclear weapons) now blocks out this alternative. We have had our last chance. If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door." -GoA Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur was actually against the use of nuclear weapons. It was Truman who authorized their use in WWII.
@@josephfitzhenry245 Don't you think it's important to note that Mac said this AFTER he retired from the military and no longer was in a position to either initiate their use or be ordered to use them? It's not like his principals ran so high that he resigned immediately after Japan was bombed, let alone when he was told Truman had made the decision.
Wasn’t there something similar to the Hawaiian Good Luck Sign when POWs taught their captors the Bronx Cheer?
My Grandfather was a Korean war Vet with a purple heart from shrapnel that he carried with him until his death in 2013. Rest In Peace Grandpa Jack
I read a great book, called hey Joe where have you been? I forgot the authors name. Great book.
10:15 - 10:30 , drummer going off in the back.
Million thanks to all korean war veterans from all over the world, especially USA which suffered 38k KIAs. It was worth sacrificing for freedom of S. Korea. It is a good country now thanks to those who risked their lives.
It's funny you can sit here and say their sacrifices were worth it when you weren't the one sacrificing your life. I'm not saying that you're wrong but it's pretty tone deaf
Forgotten Valor: 900 members of the Filipino 10th Battalion Combat Team repelled 4 Chinese divisions of 40,000 men in the battle of Yultong, a hill north of Yeoncheon. This battle was part of the Chinese Spring Offensive in April of 1951. The 10th Battalion Combat Team reported 12 killed, 38 wounded, and 6 missing in action. Chinese losses were reported to be more than 500 killed (they stop counting dead Chinese bodies after 500)
The Philippines, still not recovered from the devastation it suffered in WWII, was the third country to contribute to the UN/US war efforts. The country sent a total of 10,000 men through out the Korean war. This piece of history is totally forgotten by the UN, the United States, and the Korean people.
So, write a book about it.
Actually The Philippines had no choice but so send men in Korea at that time, It was a part of deal which made by the US and The Philippines back then after getting their Independence no matter what they will be used as US in terms of Military needs, Yan po nangyare kaya no choice yung mga pinoy noon, pero astig parin sahil hindi sila nag reklamo mahusay silang nakipag laban
in your dreams
@@ginxxxxx yeah, because they had no choice,
My grandpa was there but he didn’t like to mention it. The most detail I remember him going into he described being under fire running ammunition between mg posts.
what an opening line. "the korean war is often remembered for being forgotten"
Should be remembered as another unneeded religion-fueled war...
@@Erika-us2ws - The TRUTH upsets you? You must be a Dim...
@@Erika-us2ws - TRUTH stays the same... doesn't change...
yall stop fighting ffs this was a comment about the oxymoron of being remembered as forgotten as funny
@@BuzzLOLOL also wtf are you on about? what religion? do you actually know what the korean war was about?
My grandfather was in this war. He would NEVER talk about it. Freely or when asked.
Troops hated this unneeded religion-fueled war...
Same... I once mentioned this fact, and was told it's because you don't want to know.
@@xs10tl1 - And most people don't want to talk about or remember about or be remembered for killing people...
@Southeastern777 - The TRUTH is always the same...
my father would with other marines, but he had to be hella drunk to tell any pacific ww2 stories (usually with fellow USMC officers). i've overheard a couple--ugly, brutal, barbaric stuff by both sides, enough to shock even my 6 y.o. mind at the time.
My father was in the German (Austrian) army at Monte Cassino- at 17- and was captured walking away from Normandy by American troops (he would gave been shot by German troops) and was sponsored by the Americans to immigrate and become American... so he felt obligated to fight in Korea... he said that was far worse. Could never tell who’s side the Koreans were on... and knifing soldiers at night was the main way to find out.
My Father was in the Korea war he has passed and I miss him dearly
I'm sorry for your loss
My condolences, sir.
So sorry
Regrets & condolences on yr loss
Sorry for your loss
"This guy was totally evil. We restrained him and gave him electric shocks for 6 months."
Shock the crazy outta him lol
Donald took advantage of the insanity of this unneeded religion-fueled war...
@@BuzzLOLOL "religion-fueled" 😆
Right, are we any better
@@gregcrane4953 - ALL RELIGIONS = ADDICTION to being LIED TO, an ENFORCED PSYCHOSIS, and WRITTEN ORDERS for their customers to automatically instantly HATE, HURT, and MASS MURDER EVERYONE on the planet not of the exact same religion !!! .. i.e. Armageddon, Left Behind movies, Story of Noah's Ark, Holocaust, 9/11, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Oklahoma City Bombing, Sandy Hook School, Las Vegas mass murdering, Somalia Bombing, Florida School Murdering, etc...
My dad fought in Korea, Cho Sin resivoir battle, and 2 or 3 others. He was sent home wounded , schrapnal left leg, back, and buttcheek, limped from then on, but the real wounds were in his head, he was violent and mean, beat my mother and they divorced when I was in grade 2. From then on we didn't see him much as he traveled around the world on ships a member of the seamans international union, prior to his death 10 yrs. ago in Houston V.A. psycologist said he was suffering from previously undiagnosed P.T.S.D., at least, now I realize the cause of my crappy childhood.
Many Korean War vets ended up in the VA Psych wards. Many.
@@colinhalliley111 you are right Colin my father fought in Korea 7th Div. He could be the nicest man but many times during my childhood he could be the meanest and most violent man. I never understood why until many years. He passed away in 2017 I hope he is at peace now after so many years of misery after the war.
So sad you missed out having a great dad. Hope you have made your own peace with him and the demons that scarred him.
@@saralopez9965 my dad was also 7th Infantry 32nd regiment in Korea.
He was like your dad always very distant even if we were in the same room together.
I always thought he was mad at me even when he was not.
One thing though he was always their for me when I needed him.
Most of my friends. Were scarred of him just by his presence alone even if he was smiling.
He could be so gental at times and like the devil one second later.
@@RobertBrown-wm9ob The last few years of his life were probably the best. He was the best grandpa to my daughter and they became inseparable. She misses him every day. I miss him too.
To be honest, I've heard so much about the Korean war, but don't have much knowledge on it. Thanks for a brief summary of it.
R.I.P. Robert Paul N.Z. k.Force m.p 185th battalion ' lest we forget ' much respect to all who served returned and fallen we will never forget God bless you all
Several cause-and-effect pronouncements in this "documentary" are questionable. Beware what's implicit in the narration. It ain't just the terrible gangling of the background music.
My dad was drafted into the Vietnam War, but sent to Korea when, to this day, officially American soldiers were not supposed to be in Korea. They were told they could never tell anyone that, so he made it a point to tell everyone...so I am telling you.
Americans aren’t supposed to be in Korea? Umm, you might want to tell all the soldiers serving there. Oh yeah as a Sailor I’ve been there quite a lot.
I thank him for his service.
But as for not supposed to be there i think he could be pulling your leg. I don't know of any time that American soldiers were not supposed to be in south Korea.
Nor does my stepfather who is Also a Korea and Vietnam war veteran retired as a major
BS...You or your Dad are telling Sea Stories...Korea was a Duty Station for 35,000 Army personnel since 1953...still is...and how old is your "Dad" if he was drafted at 18 in 1965?
...might have been Cambodia
wait a minute if American soldiers were not supposed to be there Please explain why My Father was there from end of 1950 to 1953, and how i managed while in the US army to spend 2 yrs there myself 81 and 82. Plus who were those guys Reagan visited
I love that I actually learn things and enjoy so much how they are presented. Thank you!☺️♥️🦋
I don't think any Chinese divisions were "taken out" at Chosin. Plus, the Army's Task Force Smith deserves a mention. At least you're talking about the war.
I always knew the Korean war was bad, but this video showed just how really bad it was! An eye opener indeed!
My uncle was in ww2 from north Africa to Europe . He was sent to Korea in the 50s and he said that Korea was the coldest place in the world!
I trained in the field there in the 90s and I still remember the cold - freezing overnight...and that was in Spring!!!
If you ever did a night ambush in February on the DMZ then you would know what cold is really like. It can get 30 below and near 50 below with the wind chill. It’s called Manchurian winds and it’s deadly cold. Anything under 20 and we would take our cold weather bags to lay in ambush. You still froze solid to the ground. I served at Camp Greaves and Camp Hovey. I was there from 86-90.
Of all the battles, my grandpa survived Chosin....he only ever spoke of it 1 time. I was complaining about being cold. He proceeded to tell me about his encounter. I cried. Absolutley brutal. To the day he died he always told me that China was Americas biggest threat.
My uncle Charles Salls survived Chosin.
@@Ashphinchtersayswhat god bless him! We've descended from some of the toughest SOB's in the history of the American military....like my grand dad used to say after his first shot of bourbon "oooohhhh raaah"
If you only knew how hostile the enemy really was.
Kind of hard to ignore that background music(noise)
They need to take a cue from the videos Simon Whistler does, the background music is so minimal you only notice it at the closing of each piece.
Humans are both the smartest and dumbest creatures on earth
"atomically bombed" ???
It is to laugh so much
It's funny, because it's only an armistice my father and I served in the same conflict 25 years apart
Grandpa was an engineer for the Air Force. He still alive and is always trying to do everything him self. He said the local store taped lizard to the ceiling to catch flys and the time he a corporal pointed his rifle at a 3 star general
I would like to hear more about the CPL pointing a rifle at a 3 star general.
@@Taiko-THC349 the base was doing an attack drill. He was stand guard as a black sedan drove up. At the time the drill ended but he did know. So he point his rifle at the driver then walk to the back as the window went down with his rifle point inside he saw the stars.
@@Taiko-THC349 he told him son the drill is over. He didn’t get in trouble when back to fixing planes.
@@lronews9405 Thanks for sharing.
My grandfather fought in the war. R.I.P
My dad was in the Korean War. HE use to tell a joke. The enemies were relentlessly throwing bombs at us. We were picking them up, lighting them and throwing them back.
The Korean War should never be forgotten.
Technically it still isn't over.
Guess what war had the highest American POW deaths per prisoner ratio? Korea
Both of my late grandfathers served though luckily they were stationed stateside doing mechanical work.
My great grandpa lied about his age to get into the war and got injured by a grenade and died like 3 years ago
You missed the fact that Japanese LST's and crews helped land Marines at Inchon
The generic rock music in the background makes me despise militarism even more.
But only the "American" kind, right? Putz.
My dad was stationed there during the War... I was stationed there in the 1980s. Took a tour of the DMZ after tours were *cancelled* a couple of times based on how hot things were up at the border! Will never forget how barren and dead the North looked. You turn around and look back into the South and it was green and full of colorful flowers, etc. Look back into the North and it was pretty much brown and "dead" looking. No color. North Korean troops staring back at you unblinkingly, loud speakers blaring propaganda, Flag the size of a football field. A very creepy place.
Y’all forgot Hemorrhagic fever (hantavirus) in Korea. The mice in the battlefront carried the virus which caused soldiers to bleed out of their eyes and lose fluids with a 15% chance of death.
My uncle would talk about the war to his friends I heard him talking the cold he would talk about soilders that had frost so bad they lost there toes an fingers but he it was not as bad as the Chinese soilders who would turn black
2,500,000 Chinese Communist soldiers were fighting the U. S. Marines at the Chosin, found in historical documents released not too many years ago. You look it up. I won't do your work. As for me, I was born not too far from the war zone, dear old dad, then a civilian under U. S. Government employment, was busy parachuting hundreds of miles into Communist China (more than once) or working with Nationalist Chinese troops raiding Communist Chinese military bases and installations on the Communist Chinese mainland coast. His exploits died with him. Dear old dad was a hero and is a Cold War legend. Few men measure up to him. And dear old mom was tougher! Lol! (Their sons were/are no slackers)
Ah the us marines, find a use for erything.
Dude, there's a video of a marine using a "useless switch" or "useless box", a toggle switch that activates an armature to turn the switch back off, to train his reaction speed. He set up an Arduino to randomize the time the armature waited to reset the switch.
Sonofabitch un-uselessed an intentionally useless device
@@elmikeomysterio5496 fuckin-A
"the Korean war is often remembered for being forgotten"
Uh huh...some college intern writers attempt at being poignet with the use of anostensible self contradicting rhetorical device like an oxymoron.
That's just a cheap throw away use of words.
This channel sucks.
My grandfather was in the 7th. Inf. Div. 17th. Inf. Regiment and was in the initial landing at Inchon. He was wounded in November of 1950. He said the ground was so cold, they had to blow it up with dynamite.
When this man came to the U.S. he’s getting the full racism experience in America! Then Americans told him to go back to his country lol What a KARMA! Lmao!
My dad was in Korea from March 1951 to Sept. 51,2nd infantry 38 reg, took a bullet on hill 1243 near what they called the punch bowl..he really never talked about it. When we where kids on the 4th he always took us to big fireworks displays .when the grand finally started he would put his fingers in his ears and walk away.Years later I asked him about this he said it reminded him of the" intense shelling night after night ,drove some guys crazy" The korean war was a close- up, face to face, meat grinder....
My late uncle was in the US Army during Korean War. He said he nearly froze to death there. He harbored a lifetime hatred for Harry Truman. TH-cam wouldn't allow me to quote my uncle's profanity when the topic of Truman came up.
The footage at 6:54 is from a North Korean defector escaping to South Korea
I remember a friends uncle said I was uneducated when I said the USA fought China in the Korean War. 🤦♂️
I’m not a fan of trump but him tweeting that “ The us has more nukes, bigger and they actually work” was the funniest shit ever.
My great gramps fought in it. I have his national match colts now
When you said it was minus 25 degrees was that in Celsius or feinhight, when will you yanks stop using the British imperial system, Australia is still a common wealth country but we went metric back in 66,,why make life difficult for your selves the metric system is so much easier to understand and use,
COREA
Just came here to see who else found the obnoxiously out of place 90s Ray-Ban Commercial soundtrack to be intolerable.😂
My Father was a combat vet of both WW2 & Korea (Germany & Korea)
I am the direct result of his twice wounded return from Korea (born July 1952)
I am a (Convoy Combat Vet) of the COLD WAR (Germany & Korea)
small world, huh?
The Chinese Army were a lot of things but a surprise they weren’t! Mac Arthur ignored his G2 who told him for weeks the people’s Army would react.