A military thread with no tag, in my Fark?

Was just wondering about the dearth of Korean War movies out there, and the fact that there were more Korean War casualties than Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

/it's more likely than you think

Fear_and_Loathing: my Dad served during Vietnam.

I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my a** for two years. And now, little man, I give this watch to you:



GAT_00: It might have something to do with that the war wasn't won or lost. It just...stopped.



/oddry appropriate
//not getting into semantics, but you know it's technically ongoing, right? Maybe that's why there aren't a lot of movies about it...there's a waiting period, like getting nominated to the BHoF

There wasn't enough menfolk in my family leftover from WWII to fight in Korea, but I have some friends who did.

I have this one friend who fought in Korea. To avoid getting blown apart, he jumped into what he thought was a foxhole. It turned out to be a Chinese latrine. Poor guy almost drowned.

After they fished him out, he started getting sick with all kinds of unknown diseases with symptoms that would baffle House. It's been decades, but he still gets sick as a dog every few months.

Middle wars always get neglected.

Coelacanth: There wasn't enough menfolk in my family leftover from WWII to fight in Korea, but I have some friends who did.

I have this one friend who fought in Korea. To avoid getting blown apart, he jumped into what he thought was a foxhole. It turned out to be a Chinese latrine. Poor guy almost drowned.

After they fished him out, he started getting sick with all kinds of unknown diseases with symptoms that would baffle House. It's been decades, but he still gets sick as a dog every few months.

Cool story

the korean war was just the final act of ww2. it set up everything for what came after...cold war, vietnam etc.

downstairs: Forgotten?

One of the most popular TV shows in history was based on it.

people often don't remember the War behind it. then have the nerve to complain about Alda making it into an anti-war message.

/Waaaah you're messing up my sitcom.
/I have a great-uncle who served in the Korean war. he won't talk about it. ever.

Hasn't forgotten.

I can't imagine how hard it was fighting a war on that peninsula when everything is either a hill or a rice paddy.

walkerhound: A military thread with no [img1.fark.net image 54x11] tag, in my Fark?

Was just wondering about the dearth of Korean War movies out there

A brave man once requested me
to answer questions that are key
'is it to be or not to be'
and I replied 'oh why ask me?'

downstairs: Forgotten?

One of the most popular TV shows in history was based on it.

i always thought it was funny that show went on for 11 years whereas the war was only 3 years.

(glad the war didnt go on for 11 years )

War is not war until the first miserable, immortal doughfoot has had his guts blown out

Is that anything like the Forbidden Doughnut?

My junior high school social studies teacher fought in Korea. What I remember most was him talking about what tough motherfarkers the Turkish soldiers were.

Dad was in the 45th Division. Gunnery Sargent.

He had been there less than a month when a jeep pulled up looking for him. When they found him they said his record indicated that he was a musician, they were putting a band together, and would he be interested.

So he spent the rest of his time over there travelling around with a Army jazz band entertaining the troops all over the country. I think he only saw 2 1/2 weeks of combat!

Man On Fire: downstairs: Forgotten?

One of the most popular TV shows in history was based on it.

people often don't remember the War behind it. then have the nerve to complain about Alda making it into an anti-war message.

/Waaaah you're messing up my sitcom.
/I have a great-uncle who served in the Korean war. he won't talk about it. ever.

anti-war messages are un-american

My father-in-law has never recovered from Korea. He was there early, when under-equipped US troops went in for a fairly hopeless holding action and most of the peninsula was nearly lost. I don't know how many of his comrades died around him. I know it was lots. I do wonder sometimes what we would have been like if he had never gone.

There's this awesome old man in my neighborhood who served in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. He wears his full uniform every Veterans and Memorial Day. His name's Preston, and he's a bad-ass. He loves whiskey, too.

Does Life magazine's website serve any other purpose than posting slide shows of "never before seen" war photographs?

Lord Jubjub: walkerhound: Was just wondering about the dearth of Korean War movies out there, and the fact that there were more Korean War casualties than Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

There is that one movie about the Korean War that was made into a TV show about the Vietnam War.

Sure, but:

dearth /dərTH/ (n): A scarcity or lack of something: "there is a dearth of evidence".

Synonyms: scarcity - shortage - lack - want - deficiency - famine

I learned all I needed to know about the Korean War from M*A*S*H*.

Fark your HERO tag. The only thing more insane than believing in an invisible sky wizard is War.

some_beer_drinker: the korean war was just the final act of ww2. it set up everything for what came after...cold war, vietnam etc.

Korea and Vietnam were split up by treaties made at the end of World War II. The Korean War was as much a part of the Cold War as the Vietnam War, as it was a proxy battle between the Western bloc and the Communist bloc.

Trance750: downstairs: Forgotten?

One of the most popular TV shows in history was based on it.

Ironic Alan Alda loves to use his freedom of speech to bash the very soldiers who gave him that right.

A total hypocrite and piece of human excretement.

A you are a liar. show where Alan Alda has bashed soldiers.
B. Freedom of speech comes from the the First Amendment to the Constitution, not from the military.

walkerhound: A military thread with no [img1.fark.net image 54x11] tag, in my Fark?

Was just wondering about the dearth of Korean War movies out there, and the fact that there were more Korean War casualties than Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

/it's more likely than you think

There are quite a few, just not made for American audiences.

Taegukgi
Taebaek Mountains
Welcome to Dongmakgol

Plenty more out there as well.

MoeSzyslak: Hasn't forgotten.

That's just your opinion, man!

(Probably mangled the quote, oh wells)

Mytch: walkerhound: A military thread with no [img1.fark.net image 54x11] tag, in my Fark?

Was just wondering about the dearth of Korean War movies out there, and the fact that there were more Korean War casualties than Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

/it's more likely than you think

There are quite a few, just not made for American audiences.

Taegukgi
Taebaek Mountains
Welcome to Dongmakgol

Plenty more out there as well.

55 entries in the "Korean War Movies" category in Wikipedia alone.

jso2897: We lost Davy in the Korean war.
Still don't know what for.
Doesn't matter anymore.

Haunting song.

ex-FIL lost his brains there after being a POW.

http://www.koreanwar.org/html/units/65en.htm?set=25

farking gov't hounded him till the 70s stating he was a collabrttor

Cpl Robert Hickox

CapnPlaty: MoeSzyslak: Hasn't forgotten.

That's just your opinion, man!

(Probably mangled the quote, oh wells)

yah, I think you forgot "like"

downstairs: Forgotten?

One of the most popular TV shows in history was based on it.

Gunsmoke was based on the Korean War?

Dad was in Korea. He never talked about it much other than to say that it wasn't very pleasant. He liked MASH but the Southern California locations bothered him. He said Korea looks more like Kansas.

/cheers, pop