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Posted By: howard

Dan, thanks for the pictures and for your service. It reminds of a story that an old Korean man told me. My friend, Mr. Chung, grew up in Korea under brutal occupation by the Japanese and was still very young when Korea was liberated by the Allies. Mr. Chung compared Japanese troops to American troops as follows: When a Japanese soldier made the slightest move out of the ordinary any child that was nearby would run away at full speed because they fully expected to get hit with a fist or gun butt. When an American soldier made the same move he would be mobbed by children because they thought he was about to give away candy or a toy.

Doesn't really have anything to do with this thread but I think it illustrates a trait of the American soldier that still exists today.

Howard