The other day a couple Veterans from Vietnam and Korea came in to talk to us about their experiences. One man spoke of a few life threatening situations he was in while fighting in Korea. He and his men had to pass through a small Korean village to get up in the mountains to hide out for the night when he came across a Korean family. There was a father, a pregnant mother ready to give birth, a young daughter with hair past her waist and two 2 year old sons. He and his men scrounged up the last of their food and gave it to the family out of the goodness of their hearts. The men slept through the night and next morning as the passed through the village yet again, they came across the same family. Aside from the two boys who were crying hysterically by their mother, the whole family was brutally murdered. The father was tied in barbed wire, the mothers body in a shallow hole in the ground and the little girl was tied to a tree by her hair, her body feet off of the ground. They figured the family would not give up his hiding spot and they were killed by the enemy for this. These people gave their lives just because these men stopped and shared their food with them. Obviously, it wasn't about the food, it was about the care and respect that these soldiers showed them. I was shocked and touched by his story at the same time. To think that just a little bit of food to show your concern for another human could make such a difference in the world is amazing.
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I remember when he told us that story. It was a very sad thing to hear, yet it proved his point about how the Korean people were very nice people. I think you did a good job connecting that story to your senior project.
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Amazing and devastating! An eyewitness account of this kind of horror does more to motivating me to learn than any teacher's lecture. You'll no longer think of the Korean war the same way.
I've heard Holocaust survivors give accounts of the hell they experienced, and I remember every single word.
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