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It comes down to this: we're pieces of equipmentTo be counted and signed for. On occasion some of us break down,And those parts which can't be salvagedAre replaced with other GI parts, that's all.

~ Rolando Hinojosa

Rolando Hinojosa Korean War Poetry War

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.

~ David Halberstam

David Halberstam Fear Korean War

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

~ Don Delillo

Don Delillo Autobiography Korea Korean War Robert Mccrum Vietnam Vietnam War War

People hated and killed each other back then. Now even those who survived are dying, leaving this world one by one. Unless we find a way to forgive one another, none of us will ever be able to see each other again. (2007: 88)

~ Hwang Sok-Yong

Hwang Sok-Yong Forgiveness Korean War

There is an old saying that goes 'Start by plucking a hair, end by killing a man'. It is also said, 'Two hands must meet to make a sound'. The atrocities that happened here weren't carried out by strangers - it was us, the people who'd once lived together harmoniously in the same village.They say it was the superstitious freaks who did it.No, it was Satan who did it.Come now, what sort of a ghost is that?Ryu Yosop replied, It is the black thing that lives in the heart of every man.

~ Hwang Sok-Yong

Hwang Sok-Yong Death Evil Korean War War

The blazing sun beat down on the concrete of the museum's front yard- Reverend Ryu Yosop felt as if the heat were sucking up all the moisture in his brain and heart. What different colors he and his brother Yohan must have used as each of them painted their own picture of home, of the carnage. These people have constructed yet a different vision of their own, Yosop thought to himself, but it all stems from the same nightmare, the one we created together.

~ Hwang Sok-Yong

Hwang Sok-Yong Korea Korean War Perspective War

It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid.

~ Pat Frank

Pat Frank Death And Dying Korean War War

We had it drilled into us time and time again: 'If someone above you falls, grip tightly to the vertical rope and cradle that person in your arms until help can get to you.'...If someone fell down on me I swear I would have bitten him on the ass and would keep on biting until he got off onhis own.

~ C.s. Crawford

C.s. Crawford Four Deuces Korean War Marines Military

Back then, I think, both sides were just very young. They needed to grow up enough to realize that thing get quite complicated in the business of living, that a lot of things require mutual understanding and compromise. I mean, when you get right down to it, all business for us men on earth is based on material things - so we've just got to work hard and share the fruits of our labors with one another. Only when that is done righteously can we render our faith honorably to God. Within a generation of adopting a school of thought in the name of New Learning, be it Christianity or socialism, we all became such ardent followers that we forgot the way of life we'd led for so long. (2007: 163)

~ Hwang Sok-Yong

Hwang Sok-Yong Christianity Korean War Socialism
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