A Marine at the 1st Marine Division outpost near the “No Fire” truce site at Panmunjom, Korea 1952
April 14, 2013, 12:00pm / 87
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Turkish soldiers on patrol, Korea 1951
April 13, 2013, 9:14pm / 29
Some of the major players of the Korean Armistice photographed in the deserted village of Panmunjom for the truce signing, July 1953:
- South Korean negotiator Gen. Choi Duk Shin
- North Korean Communist Gen. Nam Il
- US Army Gen. Mark W. Clark
Though North Korea has denounced the truce various times during the last twenty years, it was only recently did they say they “no longer felt bound by the armistice agreement,” and reserved the right for a preemptive nuclear strike on the South. Even more recently, as of late March 2013, did the North state they would no longer honor any non-aggressive pacts with South Korea, going so far as shutting down both the border and the direct phone line between both the North and South leadership.
April 13, 2013, 6:15pm / 22
The wounded being evac’d, Korea 1952
April 13, 2013, 5:55pm / 13
The Marine Corps is big and proud with years of experience. It can be impersonal, but it knows what it wants. It has regulations to be followed. Many may look silly to you. Most, however, are there because they have been proven as effective ways to accomplish the mission; to fight and win wars. Things will be done in the way the Marine Corps wants them done. If you do what you are told to the best of your ability, you will get along and it will be a rewarding experience. Otherwise you will get run over by the system and it won’t hurt the system a bit.
— Colonel Henry Aplington II, USMC, 25 June 1966
April 12, 2013, 1:11am / 21
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