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http://www.kangfull.com/board/tboard.php?board=question&key=&keyfield=&sort=&page=1&mode=view&no=65
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The page cannot be displayed. Please tell us what saddens you, soojin.
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I got to the page, but it was written in characters I don't know how to read.
Yes, what is the sorrow?
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Forgive you soojin you have made an unfortunate error in the use of the english language. You refer to the accidental death of the two precious korean girls as "My" sorrow. That soojin would imply an exclusion of any sorrow from my heart and the heart of anyone else. Surely you know that many good people grieve at the tragedy of their deaths.
But yet I know that your grief is sincere and not political. Just as I know that the hearts of your countrymen felt sorrow over the death of my Uncle Jack T. Grider and 54,245 other americans who died fighting the communist invaders of your country in 1950-53.
Look north across the 38th parallel. See soojin; the largest prison camp in the world.
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>...your grief is sincere and not political.
and yet one wonders, "why now?" and "why here?"
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The now part:
The two military members were acquitted in their courts martial this past week.
There's a great deal of animosity in S. Korea about this, I understand, even though it was as the press indicated pretty much an accident. Regrettable, of course, but on the other hand, as was pointed out, we bled a lot for the South Koreans and their gratitude can be underwhelming at times.
I thnk part of the problem may well be that deep down inside the people below the 38th parallel understand that were it not for our 35,000 or so troops in the country they would have been at great risk of having been overrun some time in the last 50 years. It's only the presence of our military, whom the North Koreans will not annihilate because they know the true might behind them, that keeps the South relatively safe.
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I think a major part of the problem is that we try these guys under US or military jurisdiction instead of trying them under local jurisdictions - as if we were an army of occupation.
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Dear FF: would you care to have your son tried by a foreign court, where politics could
prevent his getting a fair trial? I have seen little suggestion that the driver of the U.S.
vehicle was driving under the influence of alcohol. And remember that the girls must not
have been paying attention, to be aware that they were in danger, and could easily have
avoided being hit.
Court martials may whitewash offences by officers, but they sure as hell do not whitewash
offences by EM.
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