The U.S army had some black days too - the haphazard flight before the Chinese, despite overwhelming air, sea and artilery superioty, from the brink of the Yalu, perhaps the bleakest of them. I guess that’s why its called the Forgotten War these days. That and the fact of the incredible number of civilian deaths north of the 38th due to the unrestrained bombing campaign, conventional and napalm, against cities and towns (against any visible structure, when bridges, dams, towns had been leveled - much of it after the truce had been signed) by the US Air Force. There are a lot of hard truths about the war that the US, U.N and ROK don’t really want to examine too closely.

But Neostud, you failed to note the end result of the U.S involvement - a free nation and a body blow to communism. If you count three generations, at a guess, 100 million people born free. What might have become of the region - of the world - if the current North Korean regime come to own the entire peninsular? A stepping stone for the soviets and the Chinese to Japan and the pacific rim, east and west?

If you’re Korean, you certainly wouldn’t be making snide coments on a website - more likely you’d be a malnourished soldier with a portait of a criminal on your breast - or working like a slave in a mine or factory somewhere. If you’re another national you’d almost certainly be living in a less secure world.