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| Tango01 | 25 Apr 2019 9:01 p.m. PST |
….a POW in Vietnam. "The man in the picture keeps his eyes to the ground. Though there are no walls keeping him in — the image was taken in a rice field — there's no mistaking that he is a prisoner. The rope that binds his arms is only just visible, but the militiawoman guarding him with her bayonet is plain to see. And yet, 50 years after that striking photograph was taken, he remembers that the event it captures held for him a secret sense of possibility. That day was a breath of relief, and cause for a silent prayer of gratitude…"
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 Legion 4  | 27 Apr 2019 8:18 a.m. PST |
Well getting back alive would be always on your mind … |
| Tango01 | 27 Apr 2019 11:20 a.m. PST |
You are right my friend… not easy to be a POW….
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| Legion 4 | 28 Apr 2019 8:01 a.m. PST |
When on the DMZ between the 2 Koreas. With the Norks right across the border. Watching you many times watch you. And we did the same in return. We talked about among ourselves about what would happen if we'd get captured by the Norks. We mentioned going down fighting. We remember the DMZ Tree Cutting incident in 1976. link Our Bn Cdr said repeatedly that would not happen again. And we agreed. Fortunately we never had to find that out either way.
And when the Norks went after a Russian defector at that time on the DMZ at Panmunjom, @ 1985. They lost 3 KIA'd + 20 or 30 surrounded on our side of the border, in an area called the Sunken Garden.
We had one WIA and the ROKs one KIA. The Div Cdr wisely ordered to let them take their dead and go back across the border to the North. And we had the Russian defector. Killed more of them than us. So we considered it a "win" … Based on what happened in 1976. We wanted payback. But in light of the situation and orders at that time, it didn't happen. |
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plays Ambush Alley at Council of Five Nations.