Just About Sixty Years Past (i was drafted)

     So hard for me to believe,that about Sixty Years have passed, since i was a Soldier in Korea.

I was part of the Ordnance Corp, trained as an Ammunition Inspector and was on board a troopship, along with a couple of thousand others, all headed toward different locations in the divided nations of North and South Korea. The troop ship having left Tacoma, Washington, expected to make the Northern Crossing to Yokohama in just 11 days. 95% of those on board, were not eager about being sent into what was a killing ground. The other 5% were troops with assignment in Japan.

     As we proceeded on our ocean crossing day by day, we all read in the ship newspaper of the high number of our people still being killed and wounded (no cease fire at this time).  there was plenty of Depression on our ship. On the eleventh day of "our cruise to hell !) We read of a Cease-fire being signed in Korea ! That terrible Depression...just hanging over the ship, was lifted...

We all might live to have a normal family life with children. These same thought (of death at an early age) race through the minds of all Soldiers of all nations. On that day...July 27th 1953 Cease-Fire was declared. That  Intense War  in Korea, lasted about three years.. yet caused the death or injury of several million Soldiers and Civilians, then the United States (wanting to continue to have access to valuable raw materials) tried to block a National Revolution in Vietnam, they tried for seven years but were defeated and as  many troops as were killed in Korea. also perished in Vietnam.

     Next War, "Sadam is a bad man" (he murders his people, with poison gas) plus he's got them W.M.D and he may use them on us. Then we rip apart the Iraqi Army and now Big Oil (U.S.A) has got a secure grasp on the throat of all aspects of Iraqi Oil Production. Afghanistan, passing on to what Washington has been involved that far-away place (The # 1 producer of Heroin) Our Soldiers are being targeted for killings using using cell phones to trigger the bomb, just as they did when Osama bin Ladin was employed by C.I.A.  This aggressive policy that did not begin yesterday.I don't have the complete answer to those difficult questions, I began by joining Chapter 119 in Saint Pete of the Veterans For Peace, its a beginning,

All the above Scribblings are My Opinion.

Scribblemeister

Jesse Kern
Korea 1953-54

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