We Forgot Korea and 30+ thousand dead and now...
we're apparently forgetting about Afghanistan. Troops are still there in Afghanistan, some are being wounded or killed. Strength was recently increased. There is even a push on in the mountains near the Pakistani border. But little news. Apparently there is also
little support for the surviving families of service people killed in Afghanistan.
Well, we forgot about Korea pretty quickly it seems to me. 36,516 service men and women were killed during the conflict out of 1-3/4
million who served in theater. They were largely forgotten as well. Sometimes I meet veterans of Korea and they ask if I know about it. I do (I spent 4 years 9 months and a few days in the Republic of Korea). You can tell that they think nobody knows about or values their efforts. Now we hear that the families of the KIA in Afghanistan are forgotten. Will the surviving veterans be next?
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