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Irish_Dem

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19. I agree, but many of the men fighting in Korea served in WWII.

Reply to GB_RN (Reply #9)

Tue Jun 17, 2025, 06:32 AM

Jun 17

So he would have been impacted by them.

I know this for a fact, my mother was a military nurse during the Korean War, she worked
in a MASH receiving hospital stateside. She took care of the men who had been injured in Korea
and many of them were WWII vets. She heard quite a few WWII stories. The men talked about it a lot.

She actually got to met one of the men who was part of the famous Iwo Jima picture, raising the US flag.

So this Korean Vet would have heard the same out in the field.

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