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Not going to say too bad, or even sucks to be you. This war was and is bad-immoral, illegal, unnecessary. To participate in it in any way makes the deluded young men and women pawns in the grand chess game played by our country and "coalition" forces. Don't put your foot on that transport, don't pull that trigger, say no, hell say 'hell no' and refuse to participate. no need to wait in line for phones or laptops then, no need to attempt to justify your life and actions, no need to live vicariously in chat rooms.
--vb
05/28 |
I was only 20 when the Korean War sucked me into the maw of one hell of a 31 day fire fight.
I was wounded by a bayonet from a chinese soldier. It was driven through my hand and within two days I had a hell of an infection called blood poisoning.
During that 31 days the outfit lost 600% of its original solders to wounds or death.
Unreal, surrealistic, noise, sounds, smells, touches, slams, burns, cuts and visions of people being wounded severely or being torn to pieces by artillery. Seeing chinese/north korean soldiers being dropped by rounds, being blown to bits by mines and artillery. Hearing the sounds of warcraft overhead strafing. The smells were something I could not imagine. Having to pick up dead humans and move them out of the way so we could fight. That feeling of death in your hands.
I think for a part of the time I was blinded so that I could not see what was going on.
And I was trained as a sniper. I could hit at 1000 yards with pretty good accuracy. I would fire my rifle, see the figure drop, and pull out my record book and list all of the particulars for that one shot.
When the horde got too close for me to take time to write, I just shot and shot and shot and shot until the rifle was redhot and the wood of the rifle often burned and added its own smell to the war.
This was over 50 years ago, and if I close my eyes and concentrate it all comes back.
War changes a person and never leaves and never goes away.
--rec
11/13 |
Nice piece, I look forward to more of Buzzell's writings.
--JMR
02/10 |
Sounds like a hellish book about hellish brain-dead killing machines /I meant people.
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10/24 |
Awesome.. the book.. is just that. Awesome.
;)
--GC
10/22 |
Really interesting stuff. I never would have picked up that book, but now I'm considering it.
--RR
10/20 |
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