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Post by VeeVee on Apr 30, 2009 8:42:20 GMT -5
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Post by oklahoma on Apr 30, 2009 10:42:14 GMT -5
hey vic...those women were a tough lot, indeed. i have always thought that the filapina nurses havent gotten the credit that they most certainly deserve. i suppose the reason for this is that they didnt have the public relations apparatus going for them in those most trying times. the nurse bradley saga was unique, wasnt it????almost went into captivity (or worse) in korea in 1950. a former japanese POW and then almost a guest of the communists in korea. scary situation. would you call that double jeopardy????i have a friend whose first husband was taken prisoner in dec 1941 in shanghai. he was a US marine embassy guard. spent the war in a prison pen in china (maybe manchuria) only to be recalled as a reservist into the USMC for the korean conflict and was killed at inchon. now thats what i call "double jeopardy".
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Post by VeeVee on Apr 30, 2009 20:03:44 GMT -5
Yes Ruby Brandley's story is the stuff for movies.
Ouch... your friend's husband should have been exempt from combat duty in Korea.
What amazes me are all these stories of veterans getting screwed by the VA or whatever bureacracy there was that handled benefits and stuff. They were very stingy with benefits... even for fellow Americans.
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Post by oklahoma on May 1, 2009 9:54:16 GMT -5
regarding my friend's first husband. according to her, "once a marine, always a marine". he didnt even have to be in the marine reserves, but was a proud member and volunteered to go with his unit to korea. i remember that he had some kind of option concerning going, but evidently he was gung ho all the way and ended up in a body bag. to top things off, she remarried rather quickly and her second husband received the silver star in korea. he also was wounded and, of course, was awarded the purple heart on that occasion. he ironically dropped dead from a heart attack while picking tomatoes in his garden 20 years later. he was a full bird colonel in the reserves at the time. their daughter is married to a full colonel and is at schofield barracks presently. a military family all the way and into the future, i would imagine.
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